1966 Gulf Blue 911 rescue

[ghalperin]

Intro-
My name is Glenn Halperin and I live in Newport Heights, CA. I'm a Residential Real Estate Appraiser. Prior to my current career, I was a Lotus, Ferrari, Mercedes & BMW tech, specializing in those cars at different periods. I have owned several interesting BMW's including; E30 M3, E36 M3, E28 M5 & 2002 tii. After being successful at BMWCCA autocross, I transformed a 1988 E30 M3 into a road race car. 10 years later and 3 kids, aged 8-15, my life revolves around kids sports; soccer, dance, cheer, water polo, volleyball & track.

I joined the Early 911S Registry to gain Porsche knowledge and hopefully share some of mine.

I wasn't looking for an early 911, but I was open to barn finds of any kind as long as they are cool. In my line of work, I see a lot of abandoned projects.

Last week I found my current 911 project. See the thread on barn finds for more info.

When I found the car, I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it. Flip it as-is, fix it and flip it or keep it. I've decided to fix it and eventually flip it. Flame away, if you must.

I have two other projects and this car is much too nice for me.

The first is a 1960 Burro buggy that is Corvair based with VW front suspension, the frame was factory built in Santa Ana, CA in the early '60s and I'm in the process of civilizing it by lengthening and widening the frame. This will be my neighborhood beach cruiser.




The second is a 1970 Marcas Scorpion fiberglass buggy with a 1958 356 engine. The 356 engine is for sale. I plan on selling the Scorpion after I put a period correct VW engine in it. This car was shop built in 1970, has been garage kept and is mostly still original, down to the Firestone tires.



I love to tinker, you may have guessed that.

Rescue 911-
When I found the car I was so excited, that all I wanted to do was get it home and admire it. I enjoyed the thick layer of dust that had collected over the years. I even wrapped the car in plastic to preserve the dirt for the first couple of days, while I decided what to do with it. Before I purchased the car, the owners had destined it to be transformed into a phony 930S. They had all the fiberglass panels to do it. I almost feel as if I rescued it from that horrible fate and now I'm giving it a new lease on life.




1966 911 304736-
After washing and empting the car, I've started to take inventory on what is there, what is missing and what needs to be repaired.



More to come...

-Glenn

[Chuck Miller]

Welcome to the Early 911 community Glenn..........

Your adventures have just begun.........

[davep]

You need to read this thread:

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...67-911-deLuxe-
We would love to hear more info. The interior looks very interesting; very light color, the COA or Kardex would be worth getting.

[Cliff]

10-15-2013, 01:55 PM

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Carparc

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Originally Posted by ibmiked
Henk, I love the idea of a website for cars that had wood dashboards. Will there be a section for painted dash cars as well?



The Registry and web site will cover only the cars with a wood dash, from the very first up to vin number 305101.
We don't want to be in competition with any Registry already out there, why invent the wheel twice!?
Bob Fleming and I found that the 232 Registry was kinda small with just over 60 cars (known) still exsisting, plus there were cars built in late 64 that received a vin number past 232, where would they fit? It made good sense to set up a new Registry to bridge the gap between 232 Registry and this (excellent!) S-Registry.
Obviously this means a lot of work and will take a lot of our free time but is is fun and rewarding. As soon as we can show something worth showing on the website we will publish and seek publicity as well.
In the meantime we are also building the database for all these cars, we invite 64, 65 and 66 cars owners to contact us with there info to include their cars!

Henk.

Henk Baars owner of CarparcUSA LLC
www.CarparcUSA.com
www.911WoodDashRegistry.org

S Registry #1490
'64 911 Bali Blue #300215
'68 911L Targa Sea Green
'66 Volvo 123GT
'62 Volvo P1800

[friggens]

Way to go Glen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ghalperin]

907844, 901 105 111 0R, 40IDA3C 1091, 40IDA3C1 1051






All 5 wheels are the same 4.5x15 3/66 Lemmerz



-Glenn

[ghalperin]

Does anybody recognize this muffler? It has a glasspack.





Found some parts in the glovebox.



My first official repair. New wiper refills. I didn't want to scratch the windshield, if the wipers came on. I don't think the windshield is original, but it's pretty cool with the hundreds of tiny internal air bubbles.






-Glenn

[StephenAcworth]

Glenn

Welcome to the Registry! Looks like you have a nice find... it is a few cars later than mine (304598)... so I look forward to the posting of more pics and words!

Nice find in the glovebox...

Stephen

[beh911]

Glenn,

A warm welcome. Love all the new owner threads starting lately.

Give a nice wipe to the area in the red circle and share those numbers if you don't mind.

Keep up the thread and enjoy these initial days of ownership

[ghalperin]

What do these numbers represent? Thanks to all for all the encouragement and help. I've learned a lot of "Porsche" in the last week.



-Glenn