Show your ride...

Brian,
You car looks awesome ! Your story/pics deserve its own thread.

Are your Fuchs rsr finish w/ polished paddles? Looks great !!!

Thanks to all for the complements. It was gone so long it feels like I have a 'new' car to explore.

Bill,
Are you on the road to a rebuild or a different project?

Jim,
I seriously wanted to show you but I got to Fabson early afternoon and I was paranoid about driving through Chicago traffic so I got to their shop and turned right around and headed back home. Turns out I was still stuck in stop and go for miles on I 294 (I hate Chicago traffic). The guys took forever (as you know) but did a fantastic job on the car.

Larry,
You bet I am planning to drive it that weekend for sure. The fleet is down to 2 cars, I just sold the 'West Coast Cruiser' last week.:)

Kenik,
It has just a enough patina to make it a driver and not a worry about stone chips, rain, etc.

Mike,
We did the full Monty. The case went to Walt a CE, the pump to Gus, the other injection parts to Matt at Eurometrix. I freshened up the shrould w/ Chuck's red leather dye trick. Powder coated the engine tin, put on SSI exchangers, a sport exhaust, etc. The only deviation is a new Perma Tune ignition box. They are quite ugly and I may go back to the CDI at some point.

Chris,
Harvey did the wheels to stock finish. The flash makes the paddles look brightly polished but they are not. The front wheels are the original rear wheels that were delivered with the car and had to balanced with outside wheel weights. That bugged me at first but it has grown on me the more I look at them.

I think I have bored you guys enough will all the old photos, documents and history I have gathered the last few years. It has been fun though to talk with past owners and those that have seen the car in CH, NZ and AU.:)

I love taking pictures of my car :)

these are from the Charlotte AutoFair at Lowes Motor Speedway...

All the photos are at http://eludicate.com/~bolen/photos/c...autofair_2006/

Britt

Good to finally meet you and see your car Britt. Thanks for coming down to the show. I forgot my camera and was hoping somone would get some pictures of Doug's R replica. Looks like you got a few good ones. (page 2 of your link)

Thanks guys for showing pics of your cars, If you want to show some inside shots of the cars I wil not complain:D ( hint Britt)

Brian,

What a sweet ride. I cannot wait to see that car soon. Maybe in the next weekend or two? I have three cars that I need to look at and two are in IN, so that ought to work.

BTW, I feel your pain on Chicago traffic - I live it every day - but on a Sunday...? I went to look at one of those cars on Sunday and got caught in Bears traffic on LSD, then a jam on the south side in the 'hood, then trying to get onto I57, decided not to do that and got on the Dan Ryan - more traffic, and then stopped traffic on 290 going west. I was on the road for well over two hours and never left the city of Chicago - plus I got poured on in my 911!:mad: I hate the city traffic!:mad: :mad:

I digress... I will post a pic of my car later tonight. :)

Scott,

We are in agreement for sure, it sucks to drive in and around Chicago. That is why you need to come out my way. No one wants to live in our county but they do gamble here and help us to build nice rural roads.:D


Fritz,

Pretty mundane stuff but here is the interior of my Carrera. When I get a chance I am planning to put in an RSR thick rim.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1158889111.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1158889181.jpg



It still looks pretty much like it did in 1980 when the third owner took it for a test drive in the snow in Basel, CH.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1158931168.jpg

Inteior get trashed in this AZ. sun, Yeah we do not have rust but insides crack, warp, fade, leather drys and cracks, etc, etc, so it is a real pleasure to see what one should look like, Thanks, Fritz

Fritz

I love your part of the continent. One summer I drove my VW Rabbit to visit relatives in Patagonia/Sonoita AZ. While there I had to get a fuel pump replaced or something. My visit to the Tuscon VW dealer for service sent shock waves through the industry. Those poor guys had never seen rust like that before. To me it was just the typical stuff you see on the under side of any Toronto car that's survived a winter or two.

I miss AZ.

The body and paint is almost finished as is the interior...should be ready for the motor and gearbox to be reinstalled next week when I get it back in my garage. The Martini stripe and bumpers came out better then expected. I'll give an update again if anyone cares to know...

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He's smiling because he will have his license in five years....

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