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911 R with 1968 912 roots..
Hello everyone,
I'm a new member of this forum and owning an early car. I'm thrilled as I recently (2 days ago) found a MY '68 912 5-speed coupe (no sunroof) with 5 instrument dash only 2.4 miles from my house. It has had its paint / interior stripped long ago to be built into a racer but the owner never got around to completing this. He intent was to install a 911 power plant i've been told. Anyway finding this car as i have is really amazing as I've been losing sleep trying to track down an early car and just a few days prior was packing after work dog tired to race down to Alabama from Philly to buy an absolute basket case '67 w/o title.
As usual, i was a few hours late and the car was bought by a person from Florida who lived 700 miles closer to this car.
I've long wanted to make my own 911R from an early car that needed restoration and this 912 is perfect in every way except for it being a 912.
My question for the group here is how would this be regarded by the early 911 crowd? Not being here long I have no idea. I've read many times that during Porsches early efforts at 911 homologation (911R) , Porsche "shuffled" the serial numbers themselves. (looking for my own loop hole in building a 911R out of this swb 912) I know it's a reach.
I wouldn't do this to an original 912 but this one needs full restoration and is missing it's engine.
With early 911s being so difficult to find these days, i hoped this idea would be understood and well received.
Kindest regards,
Matthew Mariani