General process for restoration 914 Options

[bkrantz]

Photos, photos, photos. Camera phone or cheap digital camera that lives in the garage.

Take photos from different angles before taking things apart, and during disassembly.

Priceless for you, and entertaining for us.

[Uniquecoaches]

Like everybody else has said, take a lot of pictures as you take it apart. Zippie baggies are your friend, as are plastic totes. I even designate a shelf area and that area is tagged with the vin# and description of the vehicle. Going on my 16th year of restorations and I still do this to every single car.

[Uniquecoaches]

Best of luck and the main thing is to have fun doing your restoration. Each and every one of them has their own unique challenge.

[Stuckon914]

Best of luck and the main thing is to have fun doing your restoration. Each and every one of them has their own unique challenge.

Great advice. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[Stuckon914]

Like everybody else has said, take a lot of pictures as you take it apart. Zippie baggies are your friend, as are plastic totes. I even designate a shelf area and that area is tagged with the vin# and description of the vehicle. Going on my 16th year of restorations and I still do this to every single car.

Beautiful car and nice setup.for the small parts you take off that are plastic or rubber do you treat them with anything for storage?
My garage loft area will be over 100 in the summer and single digits in the winter.

[bbrock]

Like everybody else has said, take a lot of pictures as you take it apart. Zippie baggies are your friend, as are plastic totes. I even designate a shelf area and that area is tagged with the vin# and description of the vehicle. Going on my 16th year of restorations and I still do this to every single car.

Beautiful car and nice setup.for the small parts you take off that are plastic or rubber do you treat them with anything for storage?
My garage loft area will be over 100 in the summer and single digits in the winter.

That's a prime example of the kind of thing I worked on int he evenings. Most important is to store those dry and away from sunlight. Cool is better but the sunlight is most important. Then you can pull them out in batches and clean them up. After they were nice and clean, I treated all rubber and plastic with 30 protectant.

For me, an important part of the process is finding the right balance of tasks to keep things interesting and fun. Cleaning up a huge batch of parts at the beginning of the project would have been pure drudgery for me. Doing it in small batches was much more gratifying and provided really nice breaks from the heavy metal work. The cutting, welding, grinding, and fabricating is challenging and fun but can seem never ending on a big project. It's nice to have little interludes mixed in where you refurbish a nasty instrument cluster to like new condition. In fact, after I refurbished my gauges, I put the instrument cluster in our family room as a show piece for inspiration.

The point being that these big projects are as much mental as they are physical.

[DickSteinkamp]

I love my fastener and small parts cleaner...

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[Johny Blackstain]

I’ve had this car for 25 years in storage. My father and nephew are excited to be involved, we’ve talked about it for a long time.

Good reasons to restore THAT car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) & one of my 914s' was in storage for 27 years, also in a Maryland garage. Has spent the last 13 in a Virginia garage (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Only way you're going to find minimum rust cars on the east coast.

[Stuckon914]

I’ve had this car for 25 years in storage. My father and nephew are excited to be involved, we’ve talked about it for a long time.

Good reasons to restore THAT car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) & one of my 914s' was in storage for 27 years, also in a Maryland garage. Has spent the last 13 in a Virginia garage (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Only way you're going to find minimum rust cars on the east coast.

Must’ve been a vacuum sealed garage if no rust after 13 years. That is very impressive.

[Johny Blackstain]

Must’ve been a vacuum sealed garage if no rust after 13 years. That is very impressive.

Hardly- body was always great, still is, but 24 of those years in the Md garage seized the pistons solid... it's why my original engine block has OEM euro pistons now. Low mileage, numbers matching LE's are frowned on when modified (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Have to keep it to a minimum (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

[Superhawk996]

It's nice to have little interludes mixed in . . . .

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In fact, after I refurbished my gauges, I put the instrument cluster in our family room as a show piece for inspiration.

@bbrock

And to think I thought I was the only dork that did this. My wife banishes it to the man cave though!

[Stuckon914]

Must’ve been a vacuum sealed garage if no rust after 13 years. That is very impressive.

Hardly- body was always great, still is, but 24 of those years in the Md garage seized the pistons solid... it's why my original engine block has OEM euro pistons now. Low mileage, numbers matching LE's are frowned on when modified (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Have to keep it to a minimum (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

Hopefully mine aren’t seized. Will find out in a few weeks.

[Stuckon914]

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It's nice to have little interludes mixed in . . . .

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In fact, after I refurbished my gauges, I put the instrument cluster in our family room as a show piece for inspiration.

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@bbrock

And to think I thought I was the only dork that did this. My wife banishes it to the man cave though!
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That’s got a wife upstairs vibe all over it. I like the pictures