1974 Carrera Coupe - RHD, UK car

[Codfather]

The brakes & suspension are coming back together after refurbishment.
The rears needed new brake mounting plates.

Looks like you are well into the fun part (and no less expensive! As an aside I remember reading an article stating that on an £8k motorbike if you bought every nut bolt and petrol tank from a dealer you would end up paying £50-60k!!)

One question though , the mounting plates are quite substantial, was it not worth replateing them, or we're the new ones cheaper than the cost of getting them done?

Cheers
Dave

[Ferry Man]

the mounting plates are quite substantial, was it not worth replateing them, or we're the new ones cheaper than the cost of getting them done?

Dave, the old ones suffered an unfortunate fate at the hands of the angle-grinder.
They don't give up their hold easily and needed to be cut off. Steel into aluminium isn't a forgiving combination after 40 years of corrosion.

Looks like you are well into the fun part (and no less expensive! As an aside I remember reading an article stating that on an £8k motorbike if you bought every nut bolt and petrol tank from a dealer you would end up paying £50-60k!!)

I seem to have spent more than the cost of a brand new 991 Carrera already.
That's mad. Isn't it?

[Codfather]

the mounting plates are quite substantial, was it not worth replateing them, or we're the new ones cheaper than the cost of getting them done?

Dave, the old ones suffered an unfortunate fate at the hands of the angle-grinder.
They don't give up their hold easily and needed to be cut off. Steel into aluminium isn't a forgiving combination after 40 years of corrosion.

Ahh right,
i have just replaced the rear bearing in my '77 SC, and the Backing plate came off with a wee tug. As it was an ex racer , it has no doubt been on and off a fair few times in the last few years, or had been replaced in 2005 when it had been converted to track use.

cheers
Dave

[911hillclimber]

Costs @ 991 levels?
no surprise given the excellent way you are doing this, and such a better car in the end!

[Tosh]

I just had to look up the cost of a 991 Carrera

[left4dead]

That's mad. Isn't it?

Not in the slightest. I'm probably not the only one to think you are doing exactly the right thing. Someone could offer me two 991s and I'd still have yours, no contest. And if yours isn't worth the value of two new Carreras once complete I'll eat me hat (assuming it won't be finished until next spring that is )

[Ferry Man]

Paul, I don't think that speedo is original.
....should be the 180mph type like the RS

I checked again and my speedo does have a 9.73 date stamp just like all the other dials in the set.

Now, I concede that the Carreras should have a 180mph speedo but I'm even more inclined to believe now that the dial is original to the car.
My car was one of the very first RHD cars down the line, it was late Sept 1973 and the dials were all new for that year (not having silver centres). Maybe the 150mph dial was the only one to hand at that time?....

Anyway, I will probably switch to a 180 version at some stage but for now I'm happy to believe it's what Porsche popped in the dash all those years ago.

OK, there’s me with a freshly restored set of dials all matching date codes and a fully documented paper trail confirming the speedometer has been in the car since the day it was built.

And yet.... ...the RHD Carrera ‘should’ have a dial rated 180mph (the 150mph version being standard on the base model and the S).
So, whilst I can conjecture that - as my car was built in the first few days production for the model year - the new dial wasn’t available to hand (or the wrong dial was selected), to the casual observer a glance at the dash would elicit the admonition “wrong gauge”.

[Ferry Man]

to the casual observer a glance at the dash would elicit the admonition “wrong gauge”.

I wouldn’t be able to live with that accusation so when a NOS dial was offered (by ‘JPH’ on DDK) I had to buy.
I didn’t pay the asking price, though I no doubt paid too much.
But hey, it’s a beauty.

[Ferry Man]

Jeremy was a delight to deal with. He claimed the dial was brand new and sure enough it proved to be.
Mint & boxed in fact.
Very nice, I’m very pleased with my purchase.
It didn’t need refurbishing and therefore meant I wouldn’t need to talk to Speedy Cables again.
Which would only stress me out.

[Ferry Man]

It also facilitates another important facet of the restoration and that is to ‘zero’ the mileage.
I think it only correct on a rebuild this thorough that I reset the mileage to nought.
Or 2, in this case.

[jamie]

991s are nice, but I'd choose this without a second thought.

[sladey]

I don't like em but I love this


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[JPH]

You can sleep easy in your bed knowing that the speedo cost about the same as speccing red dials on that notional 991

[pht9]

its an interesting perspective, buy a new 991, or have a restored classic - no brainer really.

its only now that the values of the best cars are reaching new levels, that anyone that could afford a new 991 is faced with an opportunity to buy or restore a classic Porsche that embodies real character. I know where I would place my money, I have driven a number of 991's and each time I drive one, I get out and think the Cayman is a better car. I could very well be in a Panamera, the feeling is very similar. Then I jump in a classic Porsche, its alive, has soul - you cannot replicate this feeling with a modern car (OK - the 991 GT3 looks a weapon) and the speeds and level of grip the classics afford give a more rewarding sensation than the modern cars with traction this, stability that and to drive these new cars at anywhere near the limit would get you locked up in an instant.

and.... whats the 991 going to be worth in 5 years time ?

[Bootsy]

I saw the green machine in the flesh yesterday. Going to be a hell of a car