Thanks Stephen. I forgot to recap that our engine is Number Matching and we found a nice "Tall grill" some time ago and put together, as shown earlier in this thread, a set of date correct chrome wheels we had restored. So, we''re missing nothing at all major to put the car together. Paint is next....soon ! Thanks !Originally Posted by StephenAcworth
-Allen-
Last edited by Allen Henderson; 05-18-2020 at 02:13 PM.
Wow , if there was something like the Nobel Peace Prize for correct and authentic car restorations you would be a candidate .
We're trying. We've benefited a lot from this forum; various original and restored cars; and input directly from others that we've mentioned in this thread. Still, we continue to uncover small, almost undetectable details. Thanks.
-Allen-
And I guess you could be in the jury since I am always impressed by your detail knowledge and which you share here 👍
Richard
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Hi Allen Henderson,
By looking through this thread, I just found out today that the 901 at Wessel is yours. I’ve seen the car from 2016 till 2020 while he was doing two cars for me.
He is indeed an artist. Place to be if you want to have it perfectly executed.
Success furtheron!
KR,
THTW
Thanks. We're in violent agreement.
-Allen-
He does have amazingly knowledgeable answers!
Last edited by rower; 05-24-2020 at 03:22 PM.
Hello, TailHappyTorquelessWond,
Are you the guy who makes the best chocolate pie in Belgium or someone else? Thanks.
-Allen-
Unfortunately that must be someone else.
All interested list members,
Four and one-half years have passed since dropping off 061 at the metal guy and earlier this week the day came that 061 was picked up and delivered at the next stop, the painter. The reason it took so long is that the metal guy is an acknowledged artist who likes all sorts of metal challenges and didn't continuously work on the car. When we met him first in 2003 he was still at a school for art with a special interest in moving metal structures. In his spare time he did some restoration work for a mutual 356 friend and at that first visit we saw a fearless young blood reskinning a Pre-A a Speedster from technical drawings stuck to the car and wall (mind you this Speedster turned out so good that it was later sold by Elevenparts). During the time 061 was in his shop he also completely reskinned 356s and built a pre war car on a tube from drawings; he likes coach building the best.
Restoring the body to October '64 specs turned out to be more of a challenge than expected. We have not seen even one early car that was showing all the details well and that paved the way for us. No blueprint book available and during the 901 and 64 911 production details changed within a few numbers and therefore quite some time was spent on visits, emails, picture research, etc in order to compare what he had to what other cars showed or experts could tell or confirm. Fortunately 061 was parked in '76 and basically just the bottom 4" was rusted severely but enough was left to spot details and confirm what we saw or measured on other cars. That didn't mean just that 4" was removed ..
We are convinced that we got the body details correct although details like 'is a piece of metal to sharp edged, is a length of a weld too short, etc.' remain (a source for discussion among true and " internet" experts). Not really the things we think the factory had a standard for and which could even differ between two cars manufactured at the same day or between batches supplied by different manufacturers. We can't mention all those who helped but we want to recognize: Dave Dimaria, Bob Fleming and Franz Raab. We don't need to introduce these guys but without them we could not have done this part so well. Thank you guys! Also special thanks to Henk Baars of Carparc for donating a tall grill as a return favor.
The next step will be the paint shop. The guy who we gave this job to happens to be a former "colleague" of our metal guy so we are pretty loyal to old friends. He informed us to count on 12-18 months before we can pick it up, but also here we have to do our homework and supply him with details in order to move on. After that we count on another 18 months for assembly, but that is just a guess. Bottom line we aim in the fall of 2023 the car to be finished, 10 years after we found it.
BTW we are in search of one final '64 part, the monkey motion to open the gas door. Contact us if you have one or parts of it.
We wanted to show a photo of the "monkey motion" here but we've reached our image limit. Thanks !
-Allen-
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