Well, the Early 911S Registry inspires and entertains: information new & old, enthusiasm & friendly people, goodies for sale. This community was integral to my deciding to buy a Porsche. Wound up with two, but so it goes, no?
It’s time to start reporting back on my experience with 308427S. One way or another I’ll manage to go through this car honestly & correctly. This will challenge me greatly, yet so far I’m simply fascinated and there is hardly enough time to work on the car – let alone study up on all the archived data here - I am having a blast & have decided to share the process. I can only really get it right by comparing my work to yours and by visiting. We are lucky to be able to do so. I’ll let the car speak for itself – through my lens of course- and give back to this community while I am out there swimming in gasoline. This car is not on the fast track, but I wanted a project and I got one. The time is now… but then I think we’ll drive it around this summer
Path to a Porsche - I joined the Registry back in August during a biz trip to San Diego as I fully realized that my intention to find a significant automobile boiled down to an early S. The V-12 Ferraris of interest quickly shot out of range as I studied and watched over the past 3 years – and the condition of cars in my range added to the environment for Ferrari restoration in general brought that quest to a halt. Then there were the English cars and the Shelbys, a few other American cars… Alphas even… all nice cars…
But what about all those Volkswagens?
They were somehow all around me most of my life – my sister had a blue ’74 beetle which I restored when I was 16 after fuel line related engine fire. My Pop’s company ran 2 other white 74’s from new until just last year for his ABQ engineering firm (they had 6 going at the height of errand running needs in the mid-eighties – Sportswagen & Jim Elder kept them going). My sister and I learned to drive in the two new cars in Mom’s back yard horse lot. Then there was the Brunswick blue 63 ragtop that my aunt bought new in Germany when she taught there as a young woman. She imported the car to Boulder CO. I remember her showing up in it to our house in ABQ when I don’t know how little I was. I got that car in 1980 from my grandmother who had taken it when my aunt bought a new 72. I wound up with that car as well, drove it another 60000 miles, restored it pretty well & sold it to a fellow in Stonybrook NY. There were others, and it all culminated with the NM native ’71 bus which I brought along as far as I could to be enjoyed either out cruising or over-nighting in the Ski Santa Fe parking lot. I’ve had other marks and have grown up around world class cars thanks to Dad's never ending passion & horse sense. But all those Volkswagens… coupled with my first car, a 63 Corvair of all things… I swore to my wife when the bus sold to Tampa that that was our last rear engine car…
...unless we got some Porsches somehowThat was almost nine years ago…
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