Hey guys,
I have been reading the 911S forum for almost a year now and would like to say that it's awesome! I'm only 15, but I have a great knowledge about these early 911's. It all started when my dad bought a 72' 911T that been sitting outside under a tarp in Dallas for many years. The house was right next to a busy street, so every once in a while when we drove past it, I would take a quick glance at it. I had thought it was just normal old 911. Well, about two years back my dad had found a cheap 70' 911T in the city of Waco in the local newspaper or "AutoTrader", which is about 1 1/2 hours away from Dallas. So off we went with our trailer to pick up this car. This is another one of those regular old 911's according to me back then. Since my dad used to be a euro classic car dealer and still is a bit, he knew a little about these early 911's , but he knew more about 356's. The funny thing about the car was that my next-door neighbor used to have a 70T and had been trying to sell it to my dad for MANY years until finally he sold it without telling my dad. Well, when dad bought the signal orange 70T in Waco, my dad noticed a sticker on the rear bumber guard of my neighbor's old company he used to work for and consequently it was my neighbors car!!! We brought the car home and left the car on the trailer in the driveway so my neighbor could see it. My neighbor gave a ton of original documents, original manual, and some other things that belonged to the car(now you can see how paperwork and documents of a car can get lost over time). A week after my dad bought the 70'T we pasted the black 72' T but the tarp wasn't over it this time. This time it had a "For Sale" sticker on the window. I was now a bit familiar what kind of car this was. So my dad stopped off and took a look at the price on the sticker of $8000. My dad rang the doorbell and the guy came out and after all the talking they had finally settled on $4,500 (pretty good, uh?). It was a pain to load the car up on the trailer because it was off a busy street. The car was slowly being restored by an old teacher that was going to move to Japan to teach the following two days after the car had been sold. One of the major issues about the car was that it needed a rebuild on the MFI pump, so my dad just bought a rebuilt one off ebay, which was pretty expensive -$450. He brought the car to a friend of his who owns a shop to get the car running. The car needed some other things done, but were very minor such as installing a new rear quarter window. The car also needed to be polished a little. After the car came from the shop we parked it in the garage, but it had a very low battery in it. So one afternoon I decided to put the charger on the car and I just spent most the afternoon around the car. I was started to love it! Then after an hour of charging I tried to start it and it just cranked right up. I loved the sound of that flat six!!! My dad came out to see and he was proud. Ever since then I have had a passion for these cars and I was getting very interested in them. I have bought books, magezines, and looked all over the internet over the early 911's. I know so much now that I can even wright a book about these early 911's myself. Personally my favorite is obviously the 72' 911S coupe. I am searching for these cars everyday of the week and am reading the forums 24/7.
Erick
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, but that normal though. I beleive that these 911s are next in line to shoot up in value and price. I helped my dad restore his 67' alfa duetto when I was 5-14(ya, it took a long time). My car that I am got from my dad is a 67' Austin Healey MK111, 3000(BJ8). The car is in totally ORIGINAL condition. The is nothing aftermarket or changed on the car! It has 18,000 ORIGINAL MILES! The car is very dry except the floors that have some rust, so we bought new floors, which are very easy to install on those cars. It's a very new car, but extremely dirty and we are going to start to restore it this year. I will try to get some shots of the car sometime to show ya'll but will have to post it in "off topic". As for the two 911's, I dont have any pics of them 