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[SLCE30318is]

Hi Everybody,

I am new here and still reading through the wealth of information in my spare time.

I found this one about five miles from where I live and decided to check it out. While I'm doing my research, I'd like to reach out to everyone here and gather their thoughts on this.

Owner claims that he never got around to restoring it and it's been sitting for a year at his friend's paint and body shop. He is asking $1800 for it. I would strongly consider it if I can get it for $1000 or less (maybe I'm being too hopeful).

The paint and body shop owner offered to bring it into his shop and have it on a lift so I can check it out more the next time I want to have a look at it.

Here are the videos from today:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ2mpItBA60



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAbXfQpgCU



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNQaaoDl2V0


I understand that this is going to be A LOT of work, but I'm willing to spend years working on a 914 project in my spare time and learn things along the way. My only concern is starting out with something that is too far gone.

All input appreciated.

Cheers,

Ian

[veekry9]

He's right,here on the North shore of Lake Ontario the salt bug devours iron and steel at a horrific rate.
That Texas car here is a viable restoration candidate.Holes?Sure,we got holes.That footwell hole is identical to the hole in my '66 Mustang in '73.A vehicle is at the mercy of the rocksalt covered roads here and the salt gives no quarter.Arrg.

Had some rocker rot on my Chevy Cavalier so I stuffed the holes with blue styrofoam as a backer and laid 3 plys of epoxy saturated glass cloth and carefully smoothed it out to a fair curve.A couple of applications of polyester filler and a good fairing with a paintmatch spraybomb from Canadian Tire it was virtually undetectable.A finishing touch was the clearcoat and a good rubbing.(The car had done 440K kms and still going strong today afaik tho I changed out the '91 Four for a '94,kept the '91 intake manifold.)