Hey guys, I figured its about time I shared the story and some pics on the latest acquisition.
Back in my senior year of high school (2007), I had a couple 2002's I was working on. A friend in my class mentioned that his dad had an old black Porsche in the garage. At this point I knew very little about 911's, my only experience with them having been stripping this Karmann '71E:
So I gave his dad a call and found out he didn't own the car, but was working on it for someone else. That was the last time I thought about the car until a few months ago. For some reason, I remembered hearing about that old Porsche, and wanted to find out what happened to it. I thought I remembered my friend's dad saying it was a black '73S targa, but wasn't positive. Asking my friend what it was got me nowhere, he didn't know what year or model it was. He did however tell me that the owner of the car had taken it back, and he had no idea where it was. He did remember the owner, the wife of a prominent Wichita businessman and family. One of his nephews owned an import dealer, so I assumed he would have known about the Porsche.
Many many phone calls (they had a very common last name) later, after talking to about every member of their family who had no clue about the car, finally resulted in talking to the owner's son, who had the car in his landscaping shop in Wichita. He thought the car was an 80's 911, so I kind of gave up on it. He told me I was welcome to come take a look at it whenever I wanted though, the car wasn't running, and he wasn't interested in doing anything with it.
Fast foward a few months to Christmas break. My wife and I drove up to Wichita from Corpus Christi. Typically our visits are totally booked with family member, but somehow I ended up with a free afternoon, and found myself driving toward the guy's shop in my 2002. Sadly, I got there at 5:00 on a Friday, the Friday before Christmas. The owner was gone, and the receptionist was not very helpful when I told her I had permission to view the car. I finally found someone leaving the shop and got him to let me in. After wandering around a bit in the dark, I found this:
Awesome! A longhood 911S with some nice 80's mods. No engine... I did open the door to read the paint tag: 936 - silver metallic. Could be worse.
I had the guy let me out of the shop, and called the owner's son later that night. He said I could come back the next morning and one of his employees let me in. He also said what he had of the engine was in another corner of the shop. I took a closer look this time, and found the car in really great shape. Very little rust, unlike my other 911's. I found the original tool kit in the trunk, and what seemed to be the unmounted original spare Fuch. In the engine pile, I found no case, and dirty Webers instead of the original mfi. But the red shroud was there, and heads and cams were the original S pieces. Apparently my friend's dad had been in the process of rebuilding the engine, which never happened, the owner got tired of waiting, and finally had the car and whatever else he could find that looked like it came from it brought home.
After the second visit, I called him back, and we agreed on a very reasonable price, and we called a tow truck. Here are some pics of it leaving:
I found a brand new clutch, new JE 9.5:1 S pistons, and some type of new cylinders. The 915 is from '73, but at some point, someone ground its number off:
I will post more pics later, my dad is working on the car in Kansas while I'm back in Texas.
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