Benny and the jets - a coming of age tale about a '77S rebuild
Hi everyone,
I'm new to the registry and previously introduced myself in the regional section but wanted to continue sharing my 'early inspired' mid-year rebuild with the larger audience. My name is Ben, and like many others, my 911 story could be described as champagne taste on a beer budget. After a two year search I was finally able to bring home my very own 911, a '77S coupe, in May of 2014. A mid-year car with narrow hips and a healthy engine was the perfect mix of early styling and affordability for me. My favorite way to describe the car's condition was that it had all the right things wrong with it. In other words, all of its issues were fixes that I could perform myself with normal tools in my own garage.
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So over the past year and a half I've been busy bringing this car back to life and slowly incorporating more of my style into it. Anything racecar inspired is always a win with me. Jobs like replacing all the brakes lines, rebuilding the calipers, valve adjustments, cleaning up the engine bay, and even rebuilding the Weber carburetors have been such a pleasure (especially compared to the old VWs I'm used to).
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The fun quickly halted though as during a beautiful early morning cruise to mother's day brunch my car came face to hip with a deer on the highway.
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Fortunately the front end of a 911 is nice and low which resulted in us merely clipping the legs of the deer. The result being that we (and the car) were spared any serious injury. Thus enters the car's current phase of longhood conversion in process.
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and a quick test spray to see if I'm ready to commit to signal orange:
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That's where we're at for now. A large order of goodies is on the way from TRE in California. I have some excepts from the last year or so that I'll post below before continuing with current affairs. Thanks for reading!
-Ben