Well I'm finally posting the pictures I promised in the "show your ride" thread of my 73' Targa. I was triying to set up a webpage so I could post high res shots but finally gave up on that. So here's some low res shots for you guys.
First a little history on the car.
I picked up this car on ebay one morning as an impulse buy. The car was advertised poorly with bad shots of the car and very little info. Consequently the bidding was low and there was no reserve. I did verify by serial number that the car had an 87' Euro Carrera 3.2 motor in it. So I bid only for the value of the motor since no PPI was being done.
Well I ended up winning the car. When I recieved it it was better than I could have hoped for. Rust was in the headlight buckets and at the bottom of the fenders but the chassis was excellent. Suspension pan had zero rust and records showed that the motor had only 10k miles since being rebuilt. How they overlooked mentioning that in the ad is beyond me.
I thought I would just drive the car as a beater while I restored my 71'S but first I needed to lower it because the ride height was way to high. So begins the slippery slope. Lowering the car ended up being a complete suspension redo. The car already had a nice stock setup with stock front and rear 15mm sways with 19mm / 25mm T bars and Bilstein shocks but while your in there turned into.
front / rear
7x16 / 9x16 Fuchs
22mm / 28mm T bars
Koni / Bilstein Sport shocks
Tarret 22mm / Carrera 21mm sways bars
Elephant Poly-bronze / Wevo SPS springplates
Carrera brakes
Turbo tie-rods
Carrera trailing arms
Now I had a good driver and could get back to focusing on the S or so I thought...
One night while at dinner with a friend some drunk college kids decided they would do some remodeling on my car. They backed into the rear quarter panel and then proceeded to vandalize the car. They stole some door trim and tried to steal the hood badge but just ended up bending it. Good thing those little nuts hold. I didn't see this happen but it a safe bet considering they left about half hour before me and they were already out of control in the restaurant.
Well who in there right mind would paint just a quarter panel when the rest of the paint is beat to death on a car right? So I had the car painted Irish Green. It was originally Gold Metallic but had been repainted black so I went with one of my early car favorites Irish Green. I replaced the seals with new ones in the process since this was a glass out paint job. I also did the trim, lenses and headlights.
Well now the car looked great on the outside but what about the inside?
Well I'd gone this far so I might as well finish the damn thing so I got a carpet set from Tony at Autobahn and some seats from Stephan at GTS.
One last touch. A new shifter from Rennshift.
Voila!
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