1968 T/R - "Out Of Africa"

[Bantam]

Nick, I am sure you are correct.........anyone got an example of what the factory would have used? Interested to understand what would have been used even though I might go with what was on the car.

[Rennman]

I am pretty sure they still ran the tubes down through the sheet metal to dump the hot air. They were not blocked off.

Don

[Bantam]

Thanks Don, I have seen that on a few cars; maybe this was a "local" modification due to the dusty environment although you would have thought they would have been more concerned about removing heat?

[Bantam]

Few pictures of front right hand side caliper I have just removed; plenty more if anyone needs any specific shots for reference:

[Rennman]

Nick, I am sure you are correct.........anyone got an example of what the factory would have used? Interested to understand what would have been used even though I might go with what was on the car.

I would like to change my answer to another possibility. My 67 factory Rally Kit car has 356 door jamb plugs used as block offs. They fit right on. These are the large black plugs it the top forward part of the door jamb. My car was parked in 1970. Not sure if they were factory installed but the car does have factory headers so maybe.
Don

[LongRanger]

. . . car was produced without heating, running headers . . . The left and right heating duct tinware off the engine have a pair of red plastic (although fading form the African sun) caps with a screw to secure; I can't believe these are factory fitment . . . they have no markings and are a perfect fit . . .

One o' those classic 'resto-conundrums' --- what to do w/ the 'odd bits'

You asked for 'thoughts,' so . . .

With no disrespect for Porsche Engineering, whatever was there on this car to start with --- failed/didn't work/fell-off/ain't there now . . . so what you're looking at is The Solution that Worked

Besides . . . wholesale replacing-of-stuff 'just 'cause' or because something doesn't look/feel correct (to you) just scrubs-off that much more of the car's character + history

Personally? --- I love seeing stuff like this . . . gives a real sense of what someone came up w/ while actually using the car as it was intended

Imagine some Previous Owner --- that Local Engineer . . . walking by this car, having heard The Story --- where it came from + circumstances . . . then peering inside/underneath, looking for those caps + screws that he put in, on some road-side or shed God-knows-where/when? . . .

Imagine him finding/seeing them there --- just the way he left them . . .


. . . or --- imagine him not



If something works? . . . why not leave it?

[Bantam]

Couldn't agree more; as I have researched the car and started to understand what I have I am really keen to preserve as much as possible, so anything that can be reasonably left "as is" will be. Take for example the roll bar......when I first got the car I would have planned to rub it down and repaint it satin black.....not now, 45 year old factory paint has a certain aged look that just can't be captured once repainted. In a similar way the little bits of detail like the red caps that you quite rightly point out have become part of the car's history are important so again I will retain them.

On the subject of detail, when I removed the glove box liner I found the strip of tape (pics 2 & 3 below) trapped between the liner and the dash frame.....similar to the one on the air cleaner (see final two photos); probably originally stuck to the edge of the engine bay?

[Bantam]

Couple of other bits of detail.....Ugandan tax disc and brackets on engine bay rear wall for oil surge tank......

[LongRanger]

. . . as I have researched the car and started to understand what I have I am really keen to preserve as much as possible, so anything that can be reasonably left "as is" will be . . . old factory paint has a certain aged look . . . In a similar way the little bits of detail like the red caps . . . have become part of the car's history . . . so again I will retain them . . .

Good for you, Tim! Keep every little 'signature' that you can --- your car is so unique . . . those bits are your car

My car's PO replaced the original windshield, during a re-spray, some years before. He recalled that there was a 'service sticker' of some type --- Austrian, he thought . . . . stuck to it --- but pitched it w/ the 'shield! And no photo/details

No matter how tattered --- how I miss that bit . . . especially hearing only of the glimpse the PO had of it . . .

[Flunder]

Bantam:

Great to see that you are back at it, documenting and preserving the OoA T/R.

We will need some winter entertainment so please keep the ruminations and pics coming.