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Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 2 2007, 03:15 PM

It was free apart from the 3 hours it took to get it out and the £50 I paid the truck driver to deliver it







It was here:



Which is why it took so long to get out. You can just see it on its side.

Behind the 2 ovens are the body moulds and original shell for a March Porsche that apparently won at Daytona. The PO also has a 935 and this 962CK6:

Posted by: mikez Mar 2 2007, 03:22 PM

Now the hard part....finding all the parts to put it back together.....

Posted by: jgara962 Mar 2 2007, 03:25 PM

Is anyone else not seeing the pictures????

Posted by: 736conver Mar 2 2007, 03:25 PM

Nice score.

Posted by: jd74914 Mar 2 2007, 03:28 PM

Very nice . . . does it have any parts (oil tank, engine mount, etc)?

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 2 2007, 03:28 PM

They're on photobucket - could that be the problem?

Posted by: balljoint Mar 2 2007, 03:29 PM

Very nice score.

Posted by: jgara962 Mar 2 2007, 03:32 PM

I see a picture of the Kenwood 962, but that's it. I guess by everyone else's response it it just me.

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 2 2007, 03:33 PM

It's come with a couple of hard to find bits - steering column, switches, etc. but most of them are missing I've just had an oil tank delivered from Camp 914 and my arches to replace the factory M471 kit (that had been cut off already - boooo!) will be coming soon. The mount has been cut out so I need that - I've got a WTB post in the classified

Posted by: davep Mar 2 2007, 04:07 PM

Dash frame for sale in classifieds right now if you need it.
Is the VIN 9140431689? I see paint is 29. Is there a body # in the rear trunk floor?
Keep us posted on this.

Posted by: Mueller Mar 2 2007, 04:12 PM

do you have the "story" behind what happened to it and why it just got left for scrap??

great score !!!

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 2 2007, 04:28 PM

That's right - I'll get the body number tomorrow

The story is:

Car was imported to the UK in about 1983, I believe with the M471 arches installed already. It got bought by the previous owner in 1990-92 ish who realised it had serious rust issues, so the engine and transmission along with the headlamp bucket ID tag and some other parts migrated to a US import 4 cylinder shell in red. The red version of the car was raced for a while before being sold about 10 years ago to an English guy living in Switzerland. Before he could take delivery the red car got wrapped around a tree (apparently) by well known UK Porsche specialist Francis Tuthill. It was sighted by a couple of DDK club members here in the UK after it was wrecked, and the registration records show that it changed keepers in July last year so the wreck is still out there.

The original shell stayed in a basement under an office building here in Sheffield since the re-shell and that's where I got it from. I first saw it in about 1996-7 and only got the courage to ask for it last summer - it's taken since then to get it extracted

Posted by: rick 918-S Mar 2 2007, 06:41 PM

Cool, More photos please. Show us the rust.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Mar 2 2007, 08:12 PM

thats a big ol project

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 3 2007, 02:29 AM

The body number looks like 131648 to me

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 3 2007, 02:34 AM

This makes it look better than it is

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 3 2007, 02:34 AM

This doesn't though

Posted by: davep Mar 3 2007, 09:15 AM

That is most likely correct, thanks. Do you have the dash frame? There is a similar number on the bottom of it, but beginning with 130 (they added the year code).

Looks rough, but you do have most of the numbers to build around. Can you get the missing numbers back from the crashed car?

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 3 2007, 09:27 AM

No dash frame The car was "restored" by someone of limited talent in the 80s so a lot of the originality had already gone. I had to cut a patch off the floor to get to the body number

I can't find the owner of the crashed car - I really want it so I have the complete set of paperwork. I think (if I'm correct) you'd say he had the "title" to the car but not much else. If I were to try and re-register it on the original chassis number I'd most likely get involved in some big long wrangle about who actually has the rights to the number

Posted by: davep Mar 3 2007, 12:18 PM

Since the project is such sad shape I think you have pretty free rein on what to do with it. Strip to bare metal everywhere. Primer what does not need to be worked on. Make a list of what is required, and we can try to help there.

Posted by: PinetreePorsche Mar 3 2007, 02:42 PM

Yes--a really big project. Clearly not worth the effort but for the -6 status. Maybe somewhere in Britain you can find a badly rusted -4 with most of the stuff there. Then swap most fo the stuff over. [There was an expression in the Classic Thunderbird Club Int. when I had one (2, eventually): "jack up the data plate and swap out some parts".] Still a 6 motor to find, and the oil system, as mentioned. What's your budget--in time as well as money? I think this thread could run a while.

Posted by: SirAndy Mar 3 2007, 03:26 PM

a lot of work, but i've seen worse being brought back to life.

we're here to help!

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 3 2007, 03:35 PM

I have a factory oil tank (freshly arrived from Camp 914 with console and dipstick tube), a former San Diego '4 shell and all its parts that's solid (except for a couple of small areas) to provide panels and I've just sent off the money to BAM for my flares.

I'm going to try to retain as much of the '6 as possible in the build but I think that'll be a struggle with the amount of rust in it. Still, I've owned plenty of VWs so I'm no stranger to the brown stuff

The next important thing I need is a stock engine mount for the bulkhead as it got sliced out of the shell I've sent PMs to a few people on here so I'm waiting to see what that turns up.

Budget-wise I'm not talking mega-bucks - the car has to be period correct to comply with the FIA appendix K regulations for historic racing which is undoubtably going to make everything a little pricey, but all together the 2 tubs only cost me the equivalent of about $700 so I don't mind too much

This is the '4 - it used to belong to AndyC on here

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 3 2007, 03:38 PM

I've been collecting little parts for a while for the project - my girlfriend lives in Le Mans so predictably (yawn ) there's only one way this car is going to look when it's done.

Posted by: SirAndy Mar 3 2007, 03:47 PM

schweet!

i love them door lights ...
Andy

Posted by: krazykonrad Mar 3 2007, 04:07 PM

Man! that is one awesome find!
Konrad

Posted by: markb Mar 3 2007, 04:54 PM

It's wonderful to see one being brought back to life like that! Good luck, and as has been said before, let us know how we can help.

Posted by: seanery Mar 3 2007, 05:36 PM

great score and a great project - can't see the progress pics!

Posted by: autohausdolby Mar 6 2007, 01:46 PM

I'll try and find a better host I can't post up to many photos of the work in progress as Practical Classics (a magazine over here) has expressed an interest in featuring the project, but I'll try and squeeze in a couple when it starts getting exciting

Posted by: Eric_Shea Mar 6 2007, 02:47 PM

$20.00 clams... who wants'em?

Posted by: autohausdolby Apr 8 2007, 04:48 PM

No pictures of the car yet (although it's coming along nicely ) but here are a couple of side projects I've been working on. I've started glassing the frame in to the roof and I'll get a photo when I've done (I ran out of resin today), and I still need to finish grinding off the welds from the oil filler.

Posted by: JPB Apr 8 2007, 05:41 PM

It could be alot worse, imagine a car with all the same cancer, all still together, where ya have to strip it, store all it's parts and got at it from there? You have one which is bare and ready to work on. That looks like a winner to me! How you say, rotisery?

Posted by: autohausdolby Apr 9 2007, 01:53 AM

It could be lots worse