DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

If New Year’s Day is reasonable weather, there’s a vintage vehicle gathering at Sedgemoor Market car park that I’ll try to get to. It’s 7 or 8 miles away, so probably the thick end of an hour to get there!

JW

Hugo 356 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:10 pm Epic! Looking forward to the JW's Farm thread

Having spent most of my working life on dairy farms, I’ll be quite happy never to be on another one!

JW

Rather more boring, started to prepare a few things in the garage today.

First up was the 911, complete with a mist of black paint overspray from painting my motorbike. The paint was Hammerite Smooth black that sticks to anything.

Gave the whole car a light rub over with a clay bar and a re-wax. Lots of dirt and paint off so looks great.
Used it on the external glass surfaces also which was a revelation.

Ready for a cover now the weather is starting to be bleak. Suppose we just might get a few sunny dry days yet.

Second up was the Lola-Porsche hillclimb car and removing the perfect race belts as they are deemed to be out of date/dangerous after 4 years of use, used them about 200 times, £350 ish to replace.

What an utter waste of my money. They are custom made to fit the car so I'm sure there will be a charge for that too!

Third up was the lovely Yamaha restored bike which had suffered the black paint mist too, but that clean up was easy. I'm disappointed in myself for not making the effort to ride it on the road, maybe for 2025.

Hammerite is fine, which seems to be your go to paint.................but petrol takes it off with ease! Last used it on a lawn mower fuel tank. Any petrol spillage takes it off back to bare metal.........useless stuff now.

Yes, I use the smooth Hammerite a lot, have done for years, but the petrol resistance is very poor.

Painted the under wings on the 911 back in 1989 with the stuff over red oxide. All still there and intact for all the years.

These paints are not what they used to be!

I painted the original rusty bonnet today, I’ve gone for an authentic ‘painted in a rush for the race car in the ‘70s’ vibe. i.e really shite

Not especially happy with it, but it will do for a wall ornament!

Nice Gary !! Those bloody tangents

Looks pretty good to me

Started putting the suspension from my 964 back together







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I tried putting a jump lead (thick heavy duty one) from the battery earth to the nut on the starter bolt in the engine bay.

I also tried putting a live lead from a spare battery direct to the starter live. i disconnected the yellow ignition wire and bridged the live but still the same.

I'm going to fit a hard start relay and if that still produces the same result I'm going to opt for a high torque starter replacement.

As it stand the starter is too weak to start the engine.

Not today - but yesterday.

I got some Dura garage cabinets - fitted them and some under cupboard LED lighting.

Nice

Yeah, liking those

chris68 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2024 4:51 pm Yeah, liking those

It's nice stuff but those few bits there cost about £3k when new! Luckily I had it given to me

After pretty much solidly working on the house extension for a year it is car time - building the 3.4 for the race car tomorrow so removed the deep sump from the outgoing 2.7….




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