DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

I know it's impolite to ask - and I am not Mrs Lightweight so you can be a little less economical with the truth.... How much - roughly? We'll let you ignore the time per hour spent looking for all this stuff but hard cash....

(and yes, I know, if I have to ask, I can't afford it!)

Andy,

I for one never thought you would finally get those ULO reflectors. Well done indeed. And the car looks well.. just gorgeous.

Roy

Lightweight_911 wrote:Just a very minor update but, for me, a significant one ...

- after over 12 months of searching involving hundreds of hours of scouring the internet, I finally managed to find a pair of original NOS rear reflectors in Germany !

This wasn't something that was holding the project up in any way but it had become a bit of an obsession I'm embarassed to say - especially since nobody else was likely to have noticed.

Anyway, here they are - I'm still not 100% certain what vehicle they were fitted to back in the early '60's but it certainly wasn't something particularly common!






Funnily enough the one I had found ~ 6 months ago, although very, very similar, wasn't in fact 100% correct - those above are identical to the ones originally fitted to 904's.

I'm glad to have finally located these - it was something that had really been bugging me ...

Glad it all worked out ok Andy

Will be in touch soon regarding some very cool Artwork


Chris

Lightweight_911 wrote:Just a very minor update but, for me, a significant one ...

- after over 12 months of searching involving hundreds of hours of scouring the internet, I finally managed to find a pair of original NOS rear reflectors in Germany !

This wasn't something that was holding the project up in any way but it had become a bit of an obsession I'm embarassed to say - especially since nobody else was likely to have noticed.

Anyway, here they are - I'm still not 100% certain what vehicle they were fitted to back in the early '60's but it certainly wasn't something particularly common!






Funnily enough the one I had found ~ 6 months ago, although very, very similar, wasn't in fact 100% correct - those above are identical to the ones originally fitted to 904's.

I'm glad to have finally located these - it was something that had really been bugging me ...

Spooky! I've got a box of those in my garage...always wondered what they were off?

Just went through the whole thread again - awesome!

Hedingham maybe?

Andy - a ture Anorak. I salute you

Darren65 wrote:Just went through the whole thread again - awesome!

Hedingham maybe?

it's a long walk from the far far away car park

Looking good Andy have you got any more photos of the car in full yet for us all or are you just making us wait that bit longer??

There has been a bit of a hold up for the past couple of months due to Barrie having to find a new supplier for the (very difficult to find) oval steel tubing needed for the front & rear wisbones & further problems caused by the inability of the laser-cutters to read/interpret the dimensional drawings correctly ...

Thankfully these problems have now been overcome & the fabrication of the front & rear suspension is underway.

Here's Barrie's jig to hold the front upper wishbone components for welding:



- & these pictures will give some idea as to the amount of work that goes into fabricating the rear uprights/hub carriers:

There were still a few parts on my (thankfully dwindling) 'wanted' list including a second original '60's Talbot Berlin mirror to match the one I already had.

Unforunately, over the past couple of years, these mirrors have risen in price significantly, but perseverance (& my in-built reluctance to pay 'over the odds') eventually turned up a good used pair (for 'sensible' money) with the right degree of 'patina' in Germany:




The dash switch layout I had chosen copied the original simple set-up but I was unhappy with the mis-match of bezels - particularly the rather 'drab' ones on the Bosch (356A) ignition switch & the twin-plug ignition circuit isolators:



so I ordered some original 356B chrome bezels from Stoddard in the US & swapped them over:

















The final layout looks far more 'harmonious' ... to me anyway !

Sorry about the poor quality photo :

Those bezels look much nicer , as you say positively harmonious. Love the fab work for the wishbones and uprights, really excellent stuff

I wanted to use something which looked more 'period-correct' for the oil catch tank/breather (rather than a modern aluminium one) but it was very difficult to find a 904 with an original-looking set-up.

The only 6-cylinder Factory model I'd seen which still retained this feature was Irvine Laidlaw's that utilised a similar catch tank to the 911R & early ST models ... a swb 911 plastic washer bottle - so I decided to copy that.

It was mounted between the chassis & gearbox so I needed to fabricate a suitable retaining bracket from aluminium (after making a suitable pattern/template from cardboard):

a bit OT, but as my knowledge of fabrication is poor, how are those big radiuses made?
Graham

I don't have any sophisticated equipment at home so I use an electric 'nibbler' to cut the external shape out of aluminium sheet & a file for final smoothing.

The large diameter hole was made using a hole saw mounted in a pillar drill.

There is a differance in those mirrors, can you live with that, with your eye for detail??