DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

As my car has already been stripped and blasted and is currently in the capable hands of Barry Carter it is probably about time I pulled my finger out and started a restoration thread!!

The car was purchased early this year from Ebay in the US (after Barry agreed that it looked like a good straight honest car in need of some extensive bodywork).

Anyway here are some photos prior to it being shipped to the UK (not quite sure what goes on in the trailer in the background of the first shot)!!....

















Further photos to follow once my Photobucket Account starts to behave itself!


Cheers

Richard

good stuff - keep the pics coming

Welcome to the restoration section Richard

You have a nice, straight, unrestored and unmolested car, a great basis for a quality restoration - looking forward to watching your progress and great to see another car being brought back to life.

Good luck with your plans and enjoy the journey.

Cheers,

The plan is to restore the car to standard spec with the exception of the engine which will probably be receiving a little more power.

Once the car arrived in the UK from the US it went into storage at Autofarm for a few months until a slot with Barry became available..





All was fine until its pre-restoration slumber was rudely awoken by the fella who would like to restore an Alfa Romero and his mockney sidekick......





Thank god those two charlies didn't get their hands on it!!!!

Cheers

Richard

Madrat wrote:

Thanks god indeed!

I guess they didn't buy it because it didn't have a 'patternd' front bumper

Great find and good luck.

Sorry for asking but is this the same Barry that is working for Steve Wright on his special?

neilbardsley wrote: Sorry for asking but is this the same Barry that is working for Steve Wright on his special?

Yes, our very own Mr Carter.

Great to see you on here Richard and to meet you last week...good luck with the project. You know it's in the right place to sort out the shell!

Looking forward to the updates.

R

A few update pictures......








Scuttle looks like it is a gonner...








Well the rear seat pans don't look too bad...





Maybe not!!!..





Leaking rear window has toasted the rear parcel shelf....








Time to leave Autofarm... (off to fellow forum member Darren who with his great team down at 'Swindon Car & Van' very kindly helped out with the removal of underseal)....








Rear wings come off and reveal issues with inner wing.....





Battery boxes look OK...





Door frames look good too...





























More to follow shortly....


Cheers

Richard

This one will be interesting to watch!
Please detail the restoration with good pics for us all.
Graham.

Hi Richard,

You been busy?

BTW - Photobucket seems to be working well now; no pressure!

I have given up with Photobucket and am now trying out Imageshack!

I have been pretty busy work wise so this is the first opportunity I have had to update the thread since the shell got dropped off with Barry. Needless to say Barry has been very busy working his magic and I hope to show you the results of his hard work over the next few days or so. Anyway, here are some post blast snaps of what he has had to contend with....


Tank support area....




Bumper mounting area...




Scuttle end...




Front inner wing area...




Front chassis leg area...




Battery box (not looking too bad)...




Buckle in front pan...




My car is one of the first 200 2.4T's and according to Barry it looks like Porsche were using up some old wing closer stock.....




Broken bolt attention required to battery box....




More metal horror pictures to follow shortly!!!


Cheers

Some more pictures of the condition of the car when it arrived with Barry and had been set up on his jig....




Inner wing pitting...




Jacking area...




Hole in RH inner wing...







Pitting to LH rear chassis leg...




LH A-post base area...




LH jacking point area...




Torsion Tube area...




Sheared bumper mount...




'72 Oil area..




On the jig and looking pretty good...




Both slides on zero = where they should be!




Both front towers are a fraction back......shouldn't be too much of a problem though...




Torsion Tube area again...




Droopy rear end!




LH engine mount at top...




RH engine mount...




More to follow soon!


Cheers