Picked up a '74 1.8 Options

[designerguy90]

Hello all!

I just picked up a 74 1.8 in Olympic Blue from Charleston SC last Tuesday! It was a pretty fun trip, drove down truck and trailer with a couple buddies and drove back with it to Chicagoland

She's definitely a 10 footer at this point, some dings and dents and some paint issues (but it is original paint) and I since I did PCA concours this year in my 968, I think I may do autox next year, simply based on the body condition.

The p/o put suspension/brakes out of a 71 S on the car and 15x7.5 Fuchs all around, though I have to still confirm if they are real Fuchs. Mechanically the car is sound, though I'm having my mechanic give it a once over to make sure. The body has no rot, though there is some bubbling under the sail panel vinyl, which I'm going to take care of once I get my vinyl kit in.

Any thoughts or suggestions on making the car more autox suitable?

And or fun I think I'm gonna put some gulf roundrels on the front fenders, thinking about an orange arrow like the 908/3 too

Ill try and upload a few more pics when Im able. This car has been a blast the few days Ive had it thus far and I am enjoying it much more than the 968.v (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

[era vulgaris]

I drove down from Raleigh to look at that car at the end of August. I spent a couple hours with the seller, Jeff, combing over the car.

Check your passenger side longitudinal, just below the jack receiver. There is a patch panel riveted on, that's cleverly disguised. I missed it the first time I looked at that area.
Did he mention to you that he had welded in a new jack receiver and "pyramid" because the original one had rusted out?
Also, when I looked at the car there was a black rubbery goo coating in the passenger side front corner of the hell hole, where the longitudinal meets the firewall. After I passed on the car, Jeff called me back about an hour into my drive back to Raleigh and said he'd scraped all the goo out and that it looked good in that area. I don't know if he told you all this, but you might want to carefully inspect that area just to be sure it's solid.

The driver's side rear trunk hinge also appeared to have broken off at some point and was re-welded in slightly the wrong position. If you look up inside the rear fender you can see a hole behind the hinge point, and there's paint in the engine bay that was sprayed on and dripped down to cover the re-weld. Also, the panel gaps on the rear trunk lid will show you that the driver's side is further from the engine lid than the passenger side.

The interior was immaculate, looked like it had just come off the showroom floor!

Mechanically, the car was solid though.

He told me they were 15x8 Fuchs, and suspension/brakes from a 911S, he didn't know which year.

How'd you like that "touch up" paint? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)