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Hi Richard - just been reading back through this great Thread and wanted to say well done to date for everything that you've achieved !!

I happened to meet up with a dealer/restorer called Tony Outtridge a couple of weeks back - Tony's one of those guys that've have been around for ages and has some stories to tell.

Anyway - getting to the point - he's currently doing a full restoration of an American LHD Targa S in conda/metalic green - total nut and bolt job to (in my eyes) a very high standard indeed.

He's based in Hatfield so not that far from you.

Interestingly - he expects the car to sell for around £90k - I don't know if that'll be any kind of comfort to you when you're slogging away getting the rest of that paint off etc !!

Keep up the good work !!

regards
Sean

PS - if you don't mind me asking - what did you do with that S Bumper ? I actually prefer them and would really fancy one for my car !!

Funny you should say that, I got the non-s bumper from Tony! Nice guy - he also had the Doctor's car there when I went over to see him, so I got to see that before its great resto!

The S bumper is surplus to requirements - it is only a fibreglass one, but in pretty good nick. Happy to pass it on for a few pounds - pm me if you want to discuss. I have some new struts to buy

£90k seems a lot for the car - I know they're rarer than the coupe S (I think they only ever made about 1500 over the two years) but coupes seem to command a price premium. I think Alan's 2.2s coupe went for that sort of money, but who knows....I do think I'll be insuring it for a bit more than the £40k I had it valued at before though!

I'd like to see Tony's resto - I've only ever seen one other 2.2s targa in real-life, it would be great to get some advice on various bits and pieces, thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the encouraging words, much appreciated.

Hi Rich ,
Great thread , it will be worth it in the end .
Remember this from Spa ? , resting after the parade laps .



Cheers.

Remember it? I had that picture framed and it's on the wall with the other significant 'family' photos! I love it!

How are you Russ? Be good to see you sometime, let's see if we can hook up sometime this summer?

R

Richard your thread is truly inspiring.
It is good to see a Targa naked for a change.
Yours looks to be in a surprisingly good state

Not much to update on the cleaning - due to go to the blasters in a couple of weeks and then onto Barry's.

In the meantime, I have found some great wheels - currently they are at Harvey Weideman's in the states and will get the full resto treatment from him, but these are deep 6 without hearts! I found out that Porsche fitted these for only a few months (approx Aug 70 to around Feb / Mar 71) after which they went to flat 6's. Mine was built Sept 70 so this is spot on. Although the set is not date matched, they are 9,10,11 & 12/70 - I think this is one of those 'near enough' moments without compromising too much - they're just too lovely to pass up.

I have something of a mixed batch at the moment - 3 flat 6's, 1 deep without heart and one with a heart. Am going to refirbish the one with the heart as a spare - According to Harvey, it is likely that I would have had a 'heart' as a spare as the pile for the spares seemed to last longer in the factory - the fact that mine is just on the crossover date would seem to make this correct. I never thought I was going to get to this level of anal detail, but it just sort of sneaks up on you.

They look very nice and should be perfect once restored. Such an important part of our cars. My car was made in June 1970 and I have deep 6's with hearts.
Look forward to more updates.

Kind regards.

Excellent result on the wheels Rich - one more thing ticked off the list !

OK - so as my creative brothers-in-law have been over from Canada for the last couple of weeks, naturally the chat turns to Porsches - and so they decided to have a bit of fun with the car & their camera.

Thought you might like to see the results







I think I might get me some of them neon downlighter thingies for when I'm listening to my dubstep - git down..

R

I can see one problem with the above: the shell already looks like an 'After' picture .

Just looks too good .

So - a big day today. No rain for the first time in what seems like a month or so.

But also - I've finished with these



So it was off to the blasters today. Decided to make it a softie for a few hours....





Great idea John - really works a treat - I used 'pallet wrap' £6 for 300m - bargain! Then wrapped it up in a Halfords cheapie, stacked the Landie with as much metal as I could fit in and took an 'end of stage one' photo fresh out of my garage. Quite a moment for me this....

Fantastic

One thing, doesn't a Landie look well with something to tow? Nice thing to have in the fleet.

Looking forward to seeing the Targa up here in a little while.

You missed a bit! - I can still see some green under that cling film

What ARE you going to do with your free time now?

Enjoy the journey

Thanks chaps. I agree Barry, the Landie always looks better towing, unless it's trucking through some offroad stuff. Great car.

So guess where we ended up -



Its just a total aircooled culture down there - so many buses, porsches - all good.



So back on with the wings for transport to the blasters and it's in Alan's tender care for a couple of weeks.



Big hole in the garage now....but plenty of bits lying around the outside of it....got to get on with them now!