First of all, I hope everyone who participates on this forum (including families) is healthy and staying safe during this unprecedented time we find ourselves navigating through. Due to the new WFH mandate I have a bit more time to work on car projects and also goof off on the internet. As such, I thought I’d post on a major effort currently underway on my silver metallic 73 911S (#9113300964). As many of you may be aware, I went through a 4 year (2013-2017) ground up build of my tangerine 72 S/T build but I never posted a build thread which several encouraged me to do. At the time, I flat out just did not have the time to add a build thread for that project. So, with that in mind and more time on my hands, I’ll start this thread to chronical the repaint of my 73S.
Quick background; I bought this car 15 years ago from Yves Junne, a former executive at Motul Oil and avid vintage racer in Paris, France. The car was originally delivered to Sonauto Motors in April 73 and was restored by the PO to Yves at Sonauto in 1987/88. A bare metal re-paint, new interior and the installation of a real replacement RS motor (6630993) were performed. [The motor came from RS #1009 which had burned in a fire. The charred chassis is still currently owned by a member of this forum]. The motor was returned to the factory, rebuilt and eventually supplied by the parts department of Sonauto. The paint has held up very well, but 33 years later there are some small rust concerns that we all know don’t get better if left unattended.
In February, I commissioned Scott Longballa and his small team to do the work. Not only is Scott my good friend, he also did the extensive metal work, paint, suspension and steering on my S/T. Scott is a fanatic for detail and is also a great communicator which helps when I’m in San Diego and he and the car are in Corvallis, Oregon.
Here’s the car before I sent it to Scott. The known issues that led to this were the advancing rust under one headlight bucket, a blister on a lower door panel and some visible rust in/on the seam that runs across the front slam panel. That was plenty good reason to me!
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