Porsche 911 T, Complete restoration!!

[EARLY911ZOO]

Befor I forget it, the car also had a accident on the rear passenger side!! But I don´t exactly know what happened to the car.

But it looks like a cheap American repair job.

nothing cheap about American repair work other than an American too cheap to afford top drawer American craftsmanship. the repair was likely done long ago by the owner who wasnt exactly into this for the show value, they got it fix fast and cheap but likely appropriate if circumstances only called for a quick inexpensive fix.

the myth of poor American craftsmanship is probably brought about by the buyers of so many P-cars from here in America, in the last 5 years they have been aggressively purchased by Europeans.
the respect and appreciation these cars deserved had not yet reached the average American. Now everyone wants one.

It is only of late that one might go the long way (100%)in a restoration because not only does it make sen$e but it is the right thing to do given the appreciation and enthusiasm these fantastic cars have attracted.

So really it was just a cheap repair job.

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Great story Dino
Looking forward to tomorrow's installment !

[dinogoetz]

Ok thanks for all your lovely words till now :-)

So let´s continue.

Today we start on 09/28/2007!!

[dinogoetz]

as you can see, everything began at the front and then he went to the rockers and the back of the car.

[dinogoetz]

Antoher thing we changed, were the original heating tubes, which were orginally in the rockers. We replaced them with stainless steel tube (left and right). Because the original ones won´t survive the following steps!

We decided to do this, because later we planed to put the car in a soaking bath to remove every rust, dirt, older paint and primer. The temperatur is around 100°Celsius (242° F)!!

After this we decided to weld on the new fenders, e.t.c. and then have the car c ataphoretic painted. And there the temperatures will go up to 300°Celsius (726°F)!!

[dinogoetz]

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[dinogoetz]

So now here´s another interesting part of the restoration, the soaking bath!!

[dinogoetz]

The car got the bath on 12/04/2007!!

As you can see on the pictures, the parts already got a little flight corrosion 2 hours after the parts came out of the bath.

They also made a mistake with the temperatur. So there were some big air bubbles, under the roof.

Normally the car now should go into a vacuum room. But we have to weld on the
new fenders and rear quarters.

So we decided to bring the car back to our bodyshop finish the body work, and put the car in a soaking bath, again.

[dinogoetz]

Another result of the too low temperature is, that there is still some undercoating on the car. So we removed everything by hand.

Date of the situation: 12/12/2007

[dinogoetz]

On 12/22/2007!

Nearly all parts have been mounted and welded.