Ultimate Paint Details Summary Thread for an early 67S

[Adore911]

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In the above picture you can see masking tape on the seat mount areas on the tunnel. Are you sure the center tunnel for a 67S has no undercoat? When I disassembled the 68L the entire center tunnel had undercoat with bare or rusty metal underneath. That's when I first thought the SWB cars are more similar to 356 in build than to the later cars. The undercoat appears to be more 356 like. Also, wouldn't the floors just be painted with undercoat overspray around the edges because they got tar board glued to them?

Here are two pictures of the 68L center tunnel.

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Not all SWB were painted in the same way. The early 67S cars, I have studied, had not underseal on the tunnel, apart from some splashes, as the tunnel was not fully covered during underseal. This is also what I see in the picture.

[rs-vic]

Regarding your headlight buckets, the pre 68 buckets only have one notch for the adjusting screw in the headlight rim. 68 and later have two as the H1 headlights have 4 adjusting screws in the rim.

[Adore911]

Regarding your headlight buckets, the pre 68 buckets only have one notch for the adjusting screw in the headlight rim. 68 and later have two as the H1 headlights have 4 adjusting screws in the rim.

Thanks! First work tomorrow : undo one notch each.

[rs-vic]

It's getting close to painting the 67S I'm restoring. Do the front fender screws and rectangular washers get painted black or do they remain yellow zinc?

[Adore911]

It's getting close to painting the 67S I'm restoring. Do the front fender screws and rectangular washers get painted black or do they remain yellow zinc?

Painted black seems to be most correct. See: http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...l=1#post995506

[merbesfield]

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In the above picture you can see masking tape on the seat mount areas on the tunnel. Are you sure the center tunnel for a 67S has no undercoat? When I disassembled the 68L the entire center tunnel had undercoat with bare or rusty metal underneath. That's when I first thought the SWB cars are more similar to 356 in build than to the later cars. The undercoat appears to be more 356 like. Also, wouldn't the floors just be painted with undercoat overspray around the edges because they got tar board glued to them?

Here are two pictures of the 68L center tunnel.

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My 68 912 has similar undercoating as you describe. It was also one of the +400 or so 912's built at the Porsche factory, not Karmann plant if that matters.

[rs-vic]

Painted black seems to be most correct. See: http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...l=1#post995506

Thanks, I missed that one. So was the trunk area painted black in its entirety after the fenders were installed?

[softarga]

Thanks all. Very helpful!

[Adore911]

As promised, I would provide you pictures of the modifications we did to new SWB front fenders we bought at our local Porsche Centre (genuine Porsche "Made in Germany"), to make them as historically correct as possible for a 67S:

- remove the hole in the wall next to the fuel access (and make more curved)
- change the right of 3 holes of the hinge basis for the fuel access decklid (and use an original fuel decklid with full and symmetric hinge)
- widen the lips to 21 mm
- remove 4 tabs from the headlight buckets
- remove the front right hole (when looking into it) from the bottom of the headlight buckets
- remove the right under notch from the headlight buckets

[Steve Smith]

Absolutely. Fantastic. Thread!!!
I don't know how I missed this until today.

If you need any additional photos of the car in post #23 I would be happy to take pictures of anything you specifically would like to see. My hand makes a cameo in one of the photos. The car pictured is a 67 912 Karmann.