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Re: '65
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:50 pm
by jtparr
Great to see Richard…
Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:46 am
by inaglasshouse
Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:50 pm
by IanM
I think new pre-65 turrets are available from Porsche.
https://www.design911shop.com/p/porsche ... gLytvD_BwE
Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:25 pm
by inaglasshouse
Thanks Ian. That would have been pretty useful! Hopefully will help someone else (Barry already finished with mine).
Those Porsche panels look good to me, on the face of it.
Cheers, Richard.
Re: '65
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:21 pm
by jtparr
Called by at Barry’s today…to agree the last detail fabrication for the XK…...as I was en-route to a certain place to see a certain progress on paint…Barry was busy on the near side footwell repair…one of a number of repairs yet to do….
Plenty of work yet to go but it’s looking better each time I see it….
Re: '65
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:25 pm
by inaglasshouse
Thanks jp! I'm looking forward to seeing it again soon. From the email updates, it certainly seems to be getting there.
"Easy" job after your XK! (by easy I mean well-practised and standard for Barry, not a new puzzle to be solved at every turn).
Hope the Jag is looking good!
Re: '65
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:52 am
by IanM
inaglasshouse wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:25 pm(Barry already finished with mine).
Any pics?
Re: '65
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:23 pm
by inaglasshouse
IanM wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:52 am
inaglasshouse wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:25 pm(Barry already finished with mine).
Any pics?
Yep. But I'm slower at posting pics than Barry is at welding. More to follow...
Re: '65
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:23 pm
by inaglasshouse
Re: '65
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:50 pm
by inaglasshouse
Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:24 pm
by inaglasshouse
Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:05 pm
by IanM
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Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:27 pm
by 911hillclimber
That looks a right bib-full.
I did my 73T coupe shell in 1989 and it was bad in the usual places, but 'pristine' compared to this shell.
Some big patches going in, but will be great when it has all cooled down.
Thank you for posting all of this work by Barry, most interesting.
Re: '65
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:17 pm
by Gary71
If it makes you feel better Barry described your shell to me as ‘relatively straightforward’
I guess working on JPs Jag projects so long now that another 911 (must be over 60 by now?) is almost muscle memory.
He’s also seen the lattice of a 912 that’s shortly to be delivered so yours is simple
Lovely work as ever and will be as good as new, probably better.
Re: '65
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:36 am
by inaglasshouse
Thanks all.
It's not bad overall, and will be very nice when done. Just another cautionary tale that, when you get to the stage of really stripping a car, even reasonably decent ones need "a fair bit" of work.
I figure the shell will be good for another 60 years (at least) after this visit (not least because the paint and underseal etc will be much more protective than original, and it's going to lead a sheltered life) so it won't be my problem next time around!