DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Some good fortune at last!
A chance meeting with a new DDK'er who happens to live in the same village as me exposed a complete fibreglass rear bumper of the right shape that he was willing to sell.
After scouring the country (and further afield) I had gone down the route of steel quarter bumpers and alloy rear panel and had bought those parts in readiness for Lee at Autoclassica to complete the bodywork.
Now I can go back to the original 'inspiration'

FWIW fibreglass rear bumpers that have the same shape as the original steel bumpers (LWB) are like rocking horse poo. It's easy to get them with ends to suit RS type flared rear wheel arches, but not standard arches.

If anyone else is in the same boat, Andy Hornby at R-to-RSR can help you out, he may even have one in stock

another early Porsche owner, in your village ...

Word was a 1971/1972 911S owner (from new) lived/lives in Kinver. I have never met the chappie. The village also have the only red RHD 911 Club Sport ever made. While not a DDK car, it is a vehicle of interest.

I went through the rear bumper nightmare. In the end I re-profiled an RS one to suit a narrow body and converted it to three piece.

In my rendering I left the overriders as part of the quarters forming a new flange where I cut through on both the overriders and the middle section. This is simply bolted together now so can easily be removed.

hot66 wrote:another early Porsche owner, in your village ...

Turns out he's lived in the village for ~19 years.
Racing cyclist too...
Amazed that we'd never bumped into each other.
Also got a rumour of a rolling road in the village
See you Thursday.

Mick Cliff wrote:

hot66 wrote:another early Porsche owner, in your village ...

Turns out he's lived in the village for ~19 years.
Racing cyclist too...
Amazed that we'd never bumped into each other.
Also got a rumour of a rolling road in the village
See you Thursday.

I suppose this puts the house move to Harrogate on hold

Regards
Mike

210bhp wrote:I suppose this puts the house move to Harrogate on hold

Can't think of anyone as handy that lives in Harrogate

Mick Cliff wrote: Can't think of anyone as handy that lives in Harrogate

You wouldn`t be saying that if you belonged to Wooden Wagon Klassiker, or the Morris Traveller Club.

Mike.

That sinking feeling...again

Just had a call from Lee at Autoclassica to tell me that the 'light ivory' that's on the car at the moment does not match his Glasurit 'light ivory'
Looks like some cowboy (no names, no pack drill) has painted the whole thing approximately 'white ivory'. Because the whole car was repainted at the time of course it all matched! Now the 'corrections' to the rear quarter have been completed Lee has started painting and found the problem.
So, the quandary..... leave it 'near enough'; or have a panel to the paint supplier to try and match the colour (and 'try' is the operative word, based on my experience with the Sepia car); or repaint the whole shucking footing match.

It I had hair I would be pulling it out

Thats a shame.

Is matching a colour that hard? I thought they had 80 million billion trillion colours these days and could paint a car the exact colour to match just about anything that takes your fancy?

964RS wrote:...and could paint a car the exact colour to match just about anything that takes your fancy?

That's the theory, but they couldn't match the Sepia on my other car.
Close, but noticeable, even to my slightly colour blind eyes.
Ended up repainting the whole thing

Bummer Mick - Sorry to hear that.

Keep at it Mick, you'll get it finished eventually!

I'd take the advice of your painter.

They could burn time (and litres!) trying and trying to get it spot on and still end up painting the whole thing anyway.

If it's close enough then maybe the luggage bay and engine bay can be left as they are?

Gary71 wrote:...the luggage bay and engine bay can be left as they are?

You mean the bits that are mainly painted black?

Thanks for the support guys - makes me feel a bit better