DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Can I squeeze one more year of fun her? Maybe one last patch, its just a little bit of welding....


... probably won't be too expensive...

So after 9 years as my main car, its engine out, and time for the bodywork to go to the car doctor..

so what we have is a RHD 1968 911S, full service history, full owner history, matching numbers chassis, engine, gearbox. A few patches, a bit of filler, a non original colour , silver ( factory colour - slate grey), a number of holes and a fair bit of rust.

So week one of the restoration is now underway, hooray.

Plan is to work round the car anti clockwise... why not ?

patch repaired..
and after much cutting shaping and repairing

front inner wing is completed, week 3 is over.

the next two weeks are spent cutting out the old torsion tube and welding in this donor tube shipped from the USA, and a longitudinal repair kit sourced in the uk.

Good grief! How did it pass the MoT the previous years?
Look forward to your repair of the taboo torsion tube at the rear.
Lots of pics required please!

Must have been really strong paint! It looked pretty good at the start. Back to slate grey?

Yes back to slate grey, with red and black interior, black carpet, red seats and panels. Although this feels like it is a long way away...

Will post torsion tube surgery tonight.

Regards Rich

cutting into the rear longitudinal reveals hidden rust, this would become a theme..

you can see here where the tube had been welded to the rear kick board between the rear seat pressings and the floor pan.

after a good bit of measuring the old tube comes out, in fairness there wasn't much actually holding this in place

under the underseal on the passenger side the outside of the longitudinal was fine this was removed for access, but that was it. From the torsion tube side under the first plate, were , second and third repair plates on the original rusty metalwork.. it all had to go..