1973 911 Ugly Duckling Build thread, this build is DEAPRVD (DEA Aproved) Options

[hwgunner]

I guess I will start from the very beginning. I have always wanted a 69-73 911. For some reason they have always been the Holy Grail. I got a 74 911 several years ago. It was nice; 3.0L engine, sport seats, real RS flares in the back. Just not what I really wanted so it was sold. Since then I have gone thru several projects, including a car or 2 after I purchased the 911 that this thread is dedicated to. This car started with a simple ad by Brad at 914Ltd for a 73 911T non-sunroof roller with minmal rust for a rediculously low price. I basically looked at this pic

and told him I would take it. I looked at several other pictures after agreeing to buy it and we made arrangements for payment. Then I got a Cuban Mafia trucker all set up to pick up the car and we were off.

Here are a couple of the pictures I saw before the car was shipped.






Well, we were off untill the car and the truck haulling it headed west from East Peaoria, Il and passed Chicago. It is at this point that the trucker, making his first stop for a bite to eat, was "surounded" by the Chicago DEA and had his rig and all the cars on the trailer tempirarily confiscated. (There is a thread about what happened so I will make this short.) The "money" dog allerted on my car and a new truck. Both vehicles were removed from the trailer and "dismantled and searched" right up to the point that the lead agent told the owner of the shop that was doing the dismanteling to cut my car in half. The shop owner said he looked at the lead agent and basically said "I am a car guy and I am not cutting a classic Porsche in half! There is no way there is $,$$$,$$$ stuffed into those rockers". The car was then quickly put back together as best they could (they stuffed everything in the trunk and passenger area) and the trucker sent on his way.

Here is what the car looked like on the day it arrived.




Tomorrow I will document a bit of the desruction. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

[burton73]

I had a brown 73S and a Green 70S. These are not the cars but the same colors. I loved the cars but it cost so much to fix them. My rebuild on my 73S was $5,000 in parts and machine work. I did all the wrenching. After 500 miles the car was stolen for me. the AAA only paid me $11,000. That was the going price for a 73S in 1978. That was in 1978.

When my car was stolen I thought my world had ended.

Bob