My '72 911T
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:12 pm
A few pictures of the motor at various stages of it's life in my hands:
First Curborough track day. Much amusement and a near vertical early 911 handling learning curve…
…as can be seen by this little moment which I love to say I caught and flicked round the molehill in one beautiful move.. but hey, I spun it.
The dreaded tin worm. Just a sample picture, don't want to X rate this site.
I'll just sort out that rust bubble on the rear quarter…suddenly a full strip down and bare metal respray was upon us. This was about 4 hours into the strip from a running complete car, just me, a mate, and some spanners, frightening really!!
After two months sitting on stands feeling sorry for itself it went off to Prospray just outside Manchester for a bit of TLC.
Then back to my garage to be put back together, this time in 2 weeks of evenings from a shell, as I was taking the wife away for the weekend and we HAD to go in the 911. Arrival of other new (human!) baby slowed the process…or I'd of done it in a week!
Later seats fitted as I need to be able to fit baby seats properly and they are much more comfortable!!
Aluminium arch liners fitted front and back to contain the rot. Several months and a lot of wet miles later a I dropped them out to have a look and it was bone dry and as clean as when I put it back together. Nice.
My first trip out with my 2 year old son. Quote ' Daddy car. Brum, Brum. Noise' Makes me proud…
Now the engine bay is all sorted:
...and the gearbox rebuilt:
We can get out on the road again for Summer 2005!!
DDK Northern Event: (spot the dent!! )
With Jame's (Hot66) 2.4S:
Old photo that I've mucked about with on Photoshop whilst I should be tidying up this dump of a house I live in!
A couple of new pictures from an evening drive with a friend in his Ferrari:
I should know when to stop really...
I think all this 'doing it properly' stuff on DDK is starting to get to me...
First Curborough track day. Much amusement and a near vertical early 911 handling learning curve…
…as can be seen by this little moment which I love to say I caught and flicked round the molehill in one beautiful move.. but hey, I spun it.
The dreaded tin worm. Just a sample picture, don't want to X rate this site.
I'll just sort out that rust bubble on the rear quarter…suddenly a full strip down and bare metal respray was upon us. This was about 4 hours into the strip from a running complete car, just me, a mate, and some spanners, frightening really!!
After two months sitting on stands feeling sorry for itself it went off to Prospray just outside Manchester for a bit of TLC.
Then back to my garage to be put back together, this time in 2 weeks of evenings from a shell, as I was taking the wife away for the weekend and we HAD to go in the 911. Arrival of other new (human!) baby slowed the process…or I'd of done it in a week!
Later seats fitted as I need to be able to fit baby seats properly and they are much more comfortable!!
Aluminium arch liners fitted front and back to contain the rot. Several months and a lot of wet miles later a I dropped them out to have a look and it was bone dry and as clean as when I put it back together. Nice.
My first trip out with my 2 year old son. Quote ' Daddy car. Brum, Brum. Noise' Makes me proud…
Now the engine bay is all sorted:
...and the gearbox rebuilt:
We can get out on the road again for Summer 2005!!
DDK Northern Event: (spot the dent!! )
With Jame's (Hot66) 2.4S:
Old photo that I've mucked about with on Photoshop whilst I should be tidying up this dump of a house I live in!
A couple of new pictures from an evening drive with a friend in his Ferrari:
I should know when to stop really...
I think all this 'doing it properly' stuff on DDK is starting to get to me...