I’m fairly new to this early 911 game. I picked up a nice 69 911T RGruppe car from a board member, Joe Dellville, last September. Since then I’ve become slightly obsessed about these cars. Through an interesting course of events that I am going to save for another time (John Dilger has asked me to write an article for Esses), I came across a very nice 73 911S. The car is original silver, sunroof car with factory sport seats. It’s a matching numbers car punched to 2.7 with correct RS flares and trim, along with perfectly RS finished 7s and 8s. Interior is red leather with grey carpet—a combo that made me fall in love with the car when I first saw it.
The car has had a full mechanical R&R along with recent full repaint in original silver. Its not a 100 point concors car but is about as close to perfect you want a car that you are going to drive regularly to be.
So the car came available for sale in January and with much thought, deliberation and personal justification for all the wrong reasons—good price, its going to appreciate, blah blah blah, I committed to buying it. I vaguely mentioned it to the wife in passing but figured I’d do the explaining once it was in my possession—there are now six cars in my family, including the Porsches and a 1970 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3.
My best friend and co Porsche conspirator Paul flew up to SF early one February Sunday morning and quickly picked the car up to hit the road and try and beat the storms that had been threatening to hit the coast. First impression as we got on the Freeway was how new and tight the car felt compared to my 69. As we hit Carmel and Highway One the rain started. We had an epic couple of hours on the coast in pelting rain and howling wind and little traffic. The way this 30 odd year old car handled it was phenomenal. Again I’ll get more into it in Esses.
So here it is, Early 911 number two. I’m still justifying it to the wife but she’s coming around to my insanity. And now its an S so I don’t feel like a second class citizen around here. Pics courtesy of PO, JBQuick.
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