I really don't like moving. This was the second in just over a year, and was no easier the second time, especially as I now had most of the components of an old 911 to shift as well. The various boxes or parts and tools needed their own lwb Transit trip, but the 911 wasn't going to fit in..
The new house was about 400m away along the main road, then a further 300m down a private drive. Early one Sunday morning, I sat eldest son on a box behind the wheel, and youngest son and I pushed him (and the car) the 700m to the house. They roll pretty well unladen by that lump of a drive-train.
That completed without hitch we turned to the engine, still sat on the dolly - the one with the too-lightweight castors. Sure enough, within a minute or two one had sheared off, and the three of us had to half-lift, half drag the contraption down the road. The row caused by metal scraping along the road surface brought out the residents' committee but I was in no mood for a discussion, and suggested that if they didn't want 250kg of flat 6 traffic calming in the middle of their road they should either lend me a hand or get out of my way.
Before long the car was in its new home:
The strip-down continued: steering and front suspension:
MT being unimpressed by what we discovered when we stripped the rear suspension:
Remember the expensive suspension refresh - the one that included the uprated torsion bars? It didn't extend to the trailing arm bushes:
Mounted on the Temple dolly:
The next task was to send the shell and panels off to have the paint stripped. After discussion I decided to use De-Corrosion Services in Chertsey. They'd stripped a couple of 911s at that stage and had produced good results.
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