Well the deal is done. I am now the proud owner of a Celette bench. Of course, handing over cash and hauling the thing home was the easy part. Now there is the stack of associated tools that I'll need in order to actually do something with my nice big hunk of metal. Plus it's in need of a little TLC, such as cleaning off the rusty parts, cleaning threads and lubricating everything.

Whew... it's been a long day.

So purdy, almost makes me want to bend my chassis

Congrats Mark!

I just hope I never need it.

Congrats man. Rusty parts? Psshh. This thing has no hell hole. Great addition to the Original Customs shop.

OK, now we need to get one of these in Scottyb's shop and one down south and we will have the country covered. There are some 914's that can use a second chance.

Congrads Mark! I'm sure it was a hard decision to invest the money.

Most excellent!

Dang Mark. I hope that's not for my car!

Mike... I have some bad news.

Just kidding.

You take the car in for a little rust work.....next thing ya know.....

Congrats! That is awesome

Very Cool!
So how difficulty is it to mount an otherwise unmolested car just to check if it is truly straight?

This roofline looks way longer than a normal 914... Has the Limo been painted??

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At minimum suspension out. If you concerned about the rear transaxle mount you need to pull the engine and transaxle. These are best used to restore the factory suspension and engine/transaxle mounting points after a crash.

The second best part of having a Celette in a resto/fab shop is setting up and replacing rust damaged suspension consules and installing the factory style 6 bulkhead mount in conversion cars. The fixtures locate these.

This bench in Marks hands is going to be a bonus for you guys out west. The fixtures for the 911 front suspension is the same as the 914. Many of those are seeing rusted front suspension mounting points. Another use for a Celette.

The Mercedes guys with the 260/280 SL's have one of the worse rust problems of all the german cars.

I'm really excited for Mark.

Hey Mark, Here's that jack I mentioned when we were talking the other day.
http://www.gregsmithequipment.com/Master-S...tp-xl-spl-6.htm

I saw that lift in their showroom.

Whoo Hooo!!! Congratulations Mark!

The next thing you need is a competent, reliable, productive assistant...

How do you feel about copying the bench by local building. You make measurements and take some pix. Fixtures could also be built and duplicated. I've seen steel I beams used in headers that look like larger stock than the real bench. I might be able to arrange the welds to be made in an Argon environment Seems to me something as big as a Cellette should not be lost.

That's just an open engine cover with a car cover over it...nothing exciting

Congrats indeed.

All I need are measurements, time and money and I could build one

914...the next 356

There's an older Blackhawk frame bench that will accept the Celette 914 fixtures. I have one, but it's not as nice and lacks the features of the Celette, but I only have about $600 into it which I figure is less than the cost of the steel.

I see a original /6 butchering build in my near future!

Anybody have pictures of the fixtures? Diagrams, etc?

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=52631

Yep, just as rust-prone, haha.

WillsWerks in NoVA has a bench, but they only work on 356s, oh well.

Plans for the 914 fixtures would be so cool!

Congrats Mark, I hope you did not get in that hail storm while trying to that bench....you guys can keep this lovely weather...I am going back to the snow

Have a blast with that bench.

Rich

WOW

I thought you said your shop was too full for another hunk of metal?
Actually, I think you will need 2 of those for the limo!

Looking forward to a visit soon, definitely before May.

I see you are getting ready for your first Original Customs grape harvest as well

Congrats on all the new equipment.

Olives. He has a sublet going on his side yard...

Very cool.

Yeah, it's olive oil.

Ms. Celette is definitely gonna see some action in the near future. I can't wait.