New owner in th US

[kartracer]

Greetings all, I'm new to the Porsche world and loving it. About a year ago I purchased a 1966 912 with a Chevy Corvair engine. I've always wanted a Porsche this body style and my wife agreed I "needed" it. I am a disabled veteran and don't work any more, except for the time I put in on it. I love Porsches and Corvairs so this is the best of both worlds....... for now! After renewing the body plans are to build the engine to go in it, then find a new home for the Corvair engine in my Bradley GT. A proper place for it. The drivers floor pan and rear parcel shelf is rotted away so it's a Flintstone mobile at the moment. It has a "wide body kit" as I was told when I purchased it off of Ebay. The wide body kit consists of cutting the tin, extending it outwards and a lot of Bondo. Anyways restoration is out the window so a complete custom is on it's way. Don't shoot me but I'm thinking power windows, shaving the door handles, and other mods. At the moment I have it completely disassembled and stripped down to bare metal. I have pics from before the tear down on my broke down laptop so I'll post pics of it when I can. Well, just wanted to introduce myself and give a quick lowdown on my project car thanks for listening and I hope to use a lot of the knowledge on here.

Bryan

[Lightweight_911]

Welcome to DDK Bryan - sounds like an interesting project !

yes, please post some pictures when you can - I don't remember seeing a 911 or 912 with a Corvair engine before.

[Ian Gunney]

Welcome to DDK

looking forward to seeing pics of the engine fitment.

Ian

[Richard]

Welcome to DDK Bryan

[roy mawbey]

Interesting Bryan to see how you get on. Bradley GT for the Corvair engine. I don't know what the Bradley looks like the Corvair engine has always interested me because of its configuration.

Best of luck and of course welcome here.

Roy

[kartracer]

Thanks for the welcome guys, I had one of my laptops crash and my photos were on it. I'm working on trying to rescue them. I would take pics but it is stripped ( plus my garage looks like crap). I will post some when I get them from the hard drive.

[Mick Cliff]

I had to look up Corvair engines in Wiki..... interesting!
A flat 6, air cooled, 2 litre's and up and even turbo's. apparently a popular conversion in VW's and dune buggies in the 60's. Lighter than a 911 engine too.
All sounds like a good package for a 912..... quite tuneable too.

[Lightweight_911]

Steve McQueen's dune buggy in the Thomas Crown Affair had a Corvair engine ...

[neilbardsley]

Welcome sir.