My Own Personal Barn Find: My 1968 911L

[911L Guy]

A Quick Update on My ‘68 911L: Almost Done

After deciding to use COVID as an excuse to do some extra restoration work, we’re within weeks of being finally complete with the entire project. We’re targeting to have the car fully done and back on the road before Memorial Day, so after a slight delay I can’t wait to finally get “Chester” back in action. After all was said and done, I decided to restore this awesome piece of our family history back to a Condition 1 car so that I can drive it with my boys into a Condition 2 car over the coming years. This will NOT be a garage queen and I plan to enjoy the car and accept the inevitable patina that we will happily put on it together.

I’ll do a more thorough post on the restoration work once it’s all complete, but here are a few interim pics of work as of this afternoon, which is about 95% complete. I’ve got new Michelin XAS tires in the original 165 VR 15 fitment being delivered next week to go on these beautifully restored original 5 1/2” x 15” Fuchs that Harvey did last year, and we still have a few body and engine items to wrap up. But have seen the car this afternoon I got fired up and thought I’d post up a few “almost final” pics. The guys at The Last Detail have been absolutely awesome to work with, so hats off to Tom Snellback and his team for a great project in restoring Chester to his former glory for me and my family. More pics to come with a more detailed update after we get it complete, but here is where we stand as of today

[Chuck Miller]

Beautiful outcome !!!

[NorthernThrux]

Chester looks great. Ready for another 50 years. I had to chuckle at the Crate & Barrel part of your story. Same with us (married in Dec 1993). Drove from Minneapolis to Canada with two Saab hatchbacks full of C&B stuff from our registry. Still use a lot of it.

Ravi

[bob joyce]

congratulations ... Looks like they nailed the finish ...

[71gold]

Chester looks outstanding, it’s especially neat with all the unique details of a 68.
Look forward to seeing at local P events
Great story congrats on dedicated efforts and family history

[dmaddox]

So, THIS is what my car is supposed to look like, a Blood Orange 1968 911L. Beautiful. I have #5099. Great job!

[raspy2point2]

Looks like they got the paint color perfect. you are lucky. a lot of times the color is a bit off with the new formula's the body shops have to contend with. One thing I would do is lower the front and back just a little. Other wise have fun with this beautiful car. Chris

[blue72s]

Looks like they got the paint color perfect.

Indeed. What paint brand did they use?

[911L Guy]

Chester looks great. Ready for another 50 years. I had to chuckle at the Crate & Barrel part of your story. Same with us (married in Dec 1993). Drove from Minneapolis to Canada with two Saab hatchbacks full of C&B stuff from our registry. Still use a lot of it.

Ravi

That’s definitely the plan, and yup, I can definitely say that a number of our 1990’s era Crate & Barrel wedding gifts are still in use today

[911L Guy]

Beautiful outcome !!!

Thanks Chuck, it’s great to hear this from you guys. Frankly, this has turned out better than I had hoped so I’m really happy I decided to finally pull the trigger on the paint and body work that dragged my feet on over the last few years. There are still a few small bits to wrap up (including fitting the new XAS’s), and I can’t wait to finally get Chester back on the road before Memorial Day!