Finally completing my long awaited Vintage Motorcars of California Pre A 356 Coupe "Rag Top" in Fashion Gray...coming this summer.





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My inspiration

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Not going anywhere, I'm a 914 Lifer

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Oscar,

This looks great buddy

Best Bob b

Inside work for a few months.

OMG, does that place look cool!
356s coming out of the woodwork...
Are those all real?
Where is that?
Is that your shop?
You've got me beat by a landslide!

That's the reason my garage has AC.

Bought a new old Porsche from Margie… WAY bigger than expected and NOS, although not for long as our daughter put it in her garage.

Hot today

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Recovering from surgery but it's also been 108 - 112 here in nor cal. My VW bus needs work too.

500 miles away from home, and my 914, all week, helping my daughter and SIL (and spoiling my grand daughter--which may not help her parents).

Been cleaning up around the CA house, prepping for some more concrete.

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Also, been tidying up a '69 911T motor so I can put it up for sale soon (need the room in my garage)

Before:

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Triple digit temps haven't been kind to allow me to finish what I've started.

... and the progress so far ...

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Will pop these back on with new gaskets & hardware after I perform a valve adjustment

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Same goes for these - will check and replace tensioners and chain ramps if needed before reinstalling them ...

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Need to clean up the intake manifolds and rebuild the carbs too

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My shop assistant - yes, I have a dog in this race

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Hit some Daytona surf instead….

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Mounted some PS4’s on our new 19” BBS LMs for the 996TTS… BBS rims now take 11 months to order/receive

Finishing up the interior, so 914's are put aside for a few more weeks


My 8 year project is almost coming to an end

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Sitting in a classroom for day 6 , 7am -5pm everyday. CWI test tomorrow

Nice Oscar! What year is your 356?

View of the new concrete that was poured in the back yard last month. Now I'll be able to drive around the 'shed' from the driveway and into the garage without driving over grass

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... and, not like my dance card wasn't already full, I picked up a Safari beach buggy project

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Fall is late. As you can see in the background at least it’s not a dry heat.

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Got a new toy…

Had to put new suspenders on x4 corners of the (914) tow rig.

Playing with new P car

very nice !

Wow. Congratulations, that’s a beauty

If you are good, maybe Betty will let you drive it sometime.

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Thanks!

Some Cute Couple got Married in Style....

Made the 5hr roundtrip to Brad's/914Ltd closeout sale. Scored a better drivers seat, front & rear chrome bumpers, extra steel rim, and misc other parts. Well worth the time/drive.

Jett,

That's a great color!
Sorry to ask, but can you elaborate?
Not quite the typical aubergine- !

Busy teaching my 12yr old neighbor how to rebuild some Weber 40s...
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PTS ordered Aubergine. Depending on the light and angle it changes shade.

I'm a little stuck. Looks like an early 911 ignition switch may work for my car. I'm moving the switch. Looking at the wiring diagram it is four wires and a ground. The 911 switch has four electrical padel connectors. Is a puzzle i must solve

Here you 72-74 ign switch assy. mounts on left side,, no rewire.. ,,

That is cool, still on the fence. Checked PMB but no luck finding the bracket so far. Thank you

I just went through 26 pages of brackets, no luck. Tried everything else I could think of in the search. Do I not have my secrete decoder ring set right? I’ll call tomorrow lol

Eric will know ..

Thank You

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Busy teaching my 12yr old neighbor how to rebuild some Weber 40s...
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That is great to see that he is interested in cars and mechanical things. He will be hooked on cars thanks to you. You are a wonderful neighbor to take the time to pass your knowledge to the young man.

Thanks Geezer... I had him instruct me today (and check my work) as I rebuilt the other one. So we both benefited from the experience!

Very cool, Dad

Find an old lawn mower engine, tear it all the way down and put it back together (even if you don't replace any parts). Watch the grin get even bigger when he pulls the rope and it starts. Next step after that is type IV

I might need to PM you, that looks great!

Geezer: Also, teaching the kiddo to rebuild carbs is great. I’ve contemplated teaching my 10yo daughter to weld as I learn. She’d probably make more $ working that I do.

I have an ongoing project that keeps stealing time from my real passion, The Race Car, Carerror soon to be christened Aoouuu ( a howl that I do when excited). Another passion I have is being addicted to smoke, in one form or another. You would be very hard pressed to find better baby backs, I love Ribs. That being said I am a total failure at brisket. So I saw someone that inspired me to try again at brisket. I'm building a Smoker for Brisket, a dule basket brisket rotisserie. I saw a video of brisket done in a rotisserie at about 10 RPM. In their set up the brisk hardly dripped at all. Slowly boiling in it's own smoked tallow.

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I'm drooling just thinking about it.

My son just switched careers and became a welder last year. Will probably clear 100k this year!

Took a day to transform our well pump house to something more whimsical. Snoopy and Woodstock cut out of 12ga steel on the plasma table……

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I'm back on the Dual Basket Brisket Rotisserie. Actually working on the baskets. At this point I have gathered the parts for the baskets. In the picture from left to the right. The pivot, aluminum parts get screwed to the smoker box. The bolt and steel plate welded to the basket. In the middle the basket top. On the right is the drive end, the 1/2" square tubing fits into 1/2" square drive adapter. If I get all the dimensions correct I'll be able to slip the square drive in the hole and drop the pivot into place.

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78,000 viewers on my build thread. Also today I hung the mufflers on the race car. Neat....

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It all looks Kool but everything gets covered by the diffuser. Hopefully that will be my next picture.

Had to fix my skidsteer. Fuel pickup tube rotted and fell in the fuel tank. Will get back on the 914 when the Nova is ready to drive. A lot of stuff going on. Always.

Replaced 30 struts & shocks with cheap coil-over kit on the shop hoopdee..