A couple of years ago when I was only just over a year into ownership of my first early 911 an opportunity in my eyes came along, but in other people’s eyes, ,my wifes included this was not really an opportunity it was a case of your heart ruling over doing the sensible thing.
At the time I owned a very nice original 2.4E in a very nice colour combo of black interior and tangerine.
So after being pulled out of bed early one Sunday morning by my 4 year old son I found myself scouring the car classified, I came across an add with a well-known Porsche specialist in the UK, they had a 1967 swb 911, which on first appearances looked a little sorry for itself, it had obviously been converted for weekend racing (more about that later). On closer inspection the car appeared to be a 1967S RHD, which even to my limited experience of early cars I new it to be a pretty rare car.
Anyway after initially coming across this advert, I found myself over the next week or so each time I was logging on to my laptop, pulling up the sellers website and looking over the advert again and again.
After a few weeks of deliberating and telling myself that I had a lovely car and that this swb 67S was a mile away from the car that I had, i picked up the phone and spoke to the dealer, I found out that the car had been owned for a fair few years by I gentleman in Ireland who after a number of years decided to realise his dream by driving his car in the tour Britannia. As a consequence the car was in a fairly sparse state, roll cage, stripped out interior FIA registered etc.
This didn’t deter me, I found out that the car was originally registered in May of 67,it was originally aga blue, with a black vinyl interior, at this point I was hooked….. I arranged a PAI with a well-known early 911 expert. The day arrived of the PAI I drove my 2.4E over to the dealership and left the dealer to inspect my car whilst the independent expert looked over the 67S. The car on the outside looked pretty good solid and on test driving her mechanically checked out extremely well. However on closer inspection even to my eye the car obviously had issues in all the normal places.
So the moment of truth keep the 2.4E or sell up and start a new chapter….. with a car which is certainly a project….. well I went with my gut feeling the 67S…………….. and two years on i definitely made the right decision.