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[Noah]

Love that you saved the wheel George, nicely done.

[GeorgeK]

Thanks for the good words. I am trying to *not* make the car new. It is 51 years old and counting. While the mechanicals, brakes and body will be redone, I intend to save what patina I can. Door handles, mouldings, sills, steering wheel, rims will be in cleaned, used condition.

After some intensive conditioning, the leather has become smooth again, if a little checkered on top. Now waiting for the hub extender from the machine shop.

[karlusmagnus]

That looks great George. Well done.

[70SATMan]

After some intensive conditioning, the leather has become smooth again, if a little checkered on top. .

Hours of spirited driving will take care of some of that.

[J-R]

Confinement has advantages.
Clutch, throttle, handbrake, speedometer and heater cables cleaned. I had to repair the broken end of one handbrake cable by welding a bolt on end, and drilling it for the safety clip.
I have the contact piece for the clutch fork, but can't find the bolt. M7 is correct? it is between M6 and 8 and has a 1mm pitch.

I took apart and cleaned the front calipers. no mangled threads, no broken bolts. This raised a few questions:
Restorable? the pistons are gone, but the caliper bodies?
Date codes correct for a '69? one seems to fit, the other I can't decode.

Your two calipers are not exactly the same. The casting are a little different, note the circules.

There is 3 variations, you have first and second, the third one is light yellow finish.

I have a spare one, maybe for a look, trade or sale.

[GeorgeK]

Hi J-R,
I noticed that. The calipers are en route to Eric and Marquis at PMB in Utah.
You can PM me in case you'd have a correct early caliper for sale/trade.
George

[J-R]

Hi George,

I have a second generation caliper for sale, not a 69 one. Let me know

As I have on my 69E sportomatic AMAG delivered with PMB pistons in driver conditions.

Nice work on your steering wheel stitching, I have to do the same on the spokes

[LongRanger]

Any üpdates?






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[GeorgeK]

Well, yes, but no pics.

-Steering wheel is assembled, with the extended hub. Found the correct half round headed rivets, and used M3 bolts to secure the horn holding ring.

-Frank sent me the last missing parts: 2 driveshafts, 2 sway bars (15mm), windshield mounted mirror, pedal cluster and handbrake mechanisms. He can be… interesting on the forums, but he is a straight and fundamentally honest man.

-Realised I am missing all the clips that hold the header bowden outer cables on the fresh air setup in the front trunk, so if anyone has some to spare…

-Totally unrelated, but got my paws on a hodge-podge of a VW Beetle (like Johnny Cash's song, it's a '59, '60, '61...) that I am looking into rebuilding. Man, Beetle parts are cheap after a steady early 911 diet…

-Unrelated #2: the 964 has got its historic vehicle papers, meaning it only has to go through inspection every 6 years. It has to be 100% original (which it is), and remain so. We filled the AC after I renewed/replaced every part and it works perfectly. Now to sell the car...

-Front brakes are in Sandy, Utah.

[NorthernThrux]

The clips are available from the dealer. 901.571.919.00
Only issue is that they are silver, so you will have to yellow cad plate them.

Ravi