Reintroducing a storied car to the Early 911S Registry...

[beh911]

Hi Carl,

Wonderful find! Congratulations.
I am 2nd owner of a '69T, and also have all the little paper goodies, window sticker, etc.
Detail question....in one of your shots gas tank looks to be smooth semi-gloss grey.
Do you know if that is a replacement or refinished tank??
My tank is ripply undercoated and black.....undercoating is the "plastic" they started on the bottoms in '69 and appears original.
I owned an original '70T that had a grey and ripply tank, which back in the day we all painted black!
I have seen other '69s with black undercoated tanks and '70s with grey undercoated tanks.
Just from poking around on other '69s the factory did a lot of black touch up as they did with 356s, but they did less by even 1970.
It's the smooth finish really not the color that prompted my question....I'm guessing replacement/refinish.

What do you know? What do you think?

Mark

Hey Mark,

I'm beh911 (the owner). Carl has been replying to some of my crazy posts . The fuel tank is original but has definitely been redone in its past. I think ~1980. Knowing the previous owner, he would have kept the original finish but I don't know for certain what came from the factory. When I get the car back from some servicing, I will get some close ups of the tank for you.