70 S, RHD, Signal Orange, UK->Australia->UK

[inaglasshouse]

I just didn't think there was all that much appetite for yet another standard original 911 Barry restoration thread here on DDK.

I'd read it! Or look at the pictures anyway.
Mike, if you were feeling generous with your time, and felt like going into detail about your decisions, research on originality and specific suppliers etc, I think we'd all learn a lot...
Cheers, Richard.

[911hillclimber]

+1 ^^^

[inaglasshouse]

Some progress. Today is blasting day.



Various children "helped" with the loading.
I'm not sure how those Victorian chimney sweeping contractors got anything done. Child labour? Useless.





My friend Graham, however, who owns a Discovery and covered trailer, was very useful indeed. Thanks Graham!

[Tp81]

brilliant stuff.

[inaglasshouse]

Panel List
In case it helps others, I'm going to be fairly open about costs (without disclosing information that is confidential to those working on my project).
Here's the list of panels I've bought, all from Porsche except a couple of repair sections from Roger Bray.

Total cost: 5721.35 GBP inc VAT. Hmmmm.

[MarkIII]

I remember it well sending the car to the blasters and waiting with anticipation for the call to let you know if there is anything of the car left...... I'm sure your Car will be fine, from your list of new panels, seems like your car is reasonably solid.

[inaglasshouse]

Hi Mark,
Yes, somewhat nervous!
Car is back from the blasters and, while there were one or two nasty surprises, I don't think we're going to need many more panels than above. We'll see for certain when Barry gets the rear wings off to look properly at the inners, and has a good poke around the torsion tube area.
Cheers, Richard.

[inaglasshouse]

We went straight from the blasters to Barry, stopping at home overnight only to load up the new panels etc.
Not quite enough hours in the day, as usual, so these loading pics are unnecessarily arty night shots.

[inaglasshouse]

We made it to Barry's OK



Good to see you, Barry.

Cheers, Richard.

[inaglasshouse]

My car is next on the Celette, after someone's rather nice Targa has departed.



Know you've seen it all before, but I'm excited!

[DEEMAN]

Thoroughly enjoying this thread and I, for one, can't get too much resto material. I always learn something. You are so lucky in recovering so much history and with pictures to.

Roll on the adventure.

Ian

[inaglasshouse]

As Mike mentioned yesterday in his resto thread...

...
I get the feeling that Richard is about to post his resto thread with Barry which is about to commence. I feel it might overtake this thread because I have the speed of a tortoise. To get out of sync for a moment I can say that Richard's 911 will replace my targa on Barry's jig which has just been completed today.
I have a great deal of Barry's photos to post up in the coming weeks to show the level of his dedication and brilliant workmanship. This we all know about.
What you should also know is the level of customer service Barry gives. This is what completes the perfect package for me. As well as being a genius he is also a gentleman and as honest as the day is long.
For all my working life I have come across vagabonds and corner cutters so the last few months (despite being so far apart) he has made me feel close to the project and let me realise that there are truly decent people in the world of business after all.

... my car goes on the Celette this week.
I feel a bit nervous. Although the car seems pretty solid post-blasting, 3 things are about to happen that will tell us the true state:
- Celette will show us how far out the hard points are
- rear wings are coming off, so Barry can have a proper look at the inners
- Barry will have a good look at the torsion tube area

On the bright side, as Mike says, I know it's in the best possible hands.
Remember this one, the Canford resurrection of another RHD 2.2S, as performed by Barry?:

Proves that nothing is beyond saving.
At least mine should be less work than that...
Cheers, Richard.

[Dougieboy1]

I am going to follow this closely as i think i am next in line for the barry magic in january......i may pop down to see your car for inspiration

[inaglasshouse]

I am going to follow this closely as i think i am next in line for the barry magic in january......i may pop down to see your car for inspiration

[inaglasshouse]

I chatted with Barry and a few other people before engaging the services of my friendly local blasters.
The main risk is warping of flat panels which unfortunately, as Mike mentioned in his thread just now, can happen...
I directly benefitted from that experience so I'm sorry it happened, Mike, but it did prompt me to avoid the same issue. Thanks.

On my car the rear wings and door skins are scrap anyway. But the roof was a worry - really didn't want to replace that. So, as this pic shows, I went for the obvious solution:


Barry advised it's the fiddly bits that take the time if stripping by hand. Luckily the fiddly bits (window surrounds and gutters in this case) are also the bits with the most inherent strength so not really at risk from blasting.
So we blasted around the edge of the roof and Barry will do the flat central part by hand.