BUMP for a great cause :cool:

I bought Mark's replacement car today. IF he wants it, and has the means to purchase it (due in large part to this great effort that we are all participating in). If not...well then I have two...but really I will find another buyer most likely. Here she is:

http://asbury.smugmug.com/By-Land/87...8525248-XL.jpg

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More pics: '87 930 GPW - Asbury

Car has tons of documented maintenance. Complete engine overhaul (case was split) at ~105k miles. A quick top end job at 137k (primary issue at that time was a broken headstud), with new clutch and trans rebuild. Current mileage ~143k.

Don't have it home yet...my trailer is buried in a glacier at the moment. It was hours of work just to get to this point:
http://asbury.smugmug.com/Other/Asbu...9542551-XL.jpg

I'll wait until this crap melts then go fetch the car.

Holy sh@t, Jacob - how badass is that!?

And since I seem to be so obsessed with the "moon" smileys as of late, here is my tribute to you -

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Jacob, that is an awesome contribution. Locating a good deal and then being willing to "pass it on" is freaking awesome.

What a great deed. I wish you all the best of luck.

Wow! That is a clean 930!

A very nice gesture and a great idea.

Nice car! roll cage already in it too.
Looks like a set of rennline monoballs should go in on the tops of the front struts after cleaning out the remains of the original rubber ones and dried out water seal stuff around them.
The monoballs are easy to install and the rennline ones work and look real nice and let you install a rennline shock tower crosmember on the top of them.
The polished aluminum rennline instrument rings can be pulled off and sanded with 320 grit sandpaper and sprayed with satin black paint if you prefer them black. Thats what I did.

Good for you on doing this!
most excellent.

^Thanks Jim. So I was thinking of pulling the cage out, and selling it. It's nice for a track day car (which was PO's intent), but for a street car it makes entry and exit difficult. The cage has been modified with extra gusseting and has the adjustable seat back braces welded in too. The PO is a former pro race driver, so put safety at the very top of the list.

Along with the cage, I was going to pull the Sparco race seats out and put the stockers back in. The stock seats are damn near perfect. I think they were replaced or recovered at some point.

Can those Rennline instrument trim rings just be popped off to return to stock, or is it more involved than that?

Yes, they come with pieces of thin foam sandwich double sided tape you stick in the backside of them and they just press on over the original rings then.
They should pry off with your fingers. If they resist you can remove the instruments and heat them up a with a hair blow dryer to soften the sticky stuff holding them on and they should pry off easily.

I put them on mine because the original VDO rings weren't looking too good. I did fine sand mine and spray them with satin black krylon enamel and I also put a little black silicone glue into the back side of them to assist the tape that comes with them.

You can buy new original VDO black rings and glass from NHS and install them yourself but thats alot of work and the rennline rings were overall cheaper and go on over the top of the original ones easily.

You can see my rennline rings I sprayed black in this pic.

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Friends, I've been gone off-grid for a couple days playing in the snow at my cabin, and just got back to see this! Holly $**** batman, I'm hooked. Jacob, I can't begin to thank you enough for what you've done on my behalf. Other than the interior color and the non-white painted wheels (I was always on the fence about those anyway), she's a dead ringer for my poor old girl (well, sans the roll cage of course). Good documentation, seems everything is in order. Seems well cared for and you've snagged it at a good price as well!

I'll tell you this....I want it, and with the support I've received I will make it happen one way or the other.

DOOD!

SOFA KING COOL!!!

^That^ is sobeyond undescribably cool of you Jacob. What a find, what a score, what a gesture of amazing coolness.

That thing looks spectacular. And, shoot - the maintenance list has me rather jealous! Wicked forkin kewl!!!

Agreed... sellsellSELL sommadat sheet Jake / Mark!

now

How awesome are we!?!?!?!

What a truly tremendous community we have established and are ohso fortunate to be a part of.

We're $10,500 along and 93 participants deep thus far. Great work! Though I agree, things do seem to have somewhat stagnated a bit.

Here's to hoping that THIS will be a huge shot in the arm of this endeavor!!! Giddeup gents!!!

We don't have too much further to go. We've found (and Jake's BOUGHT) the literal exact car Mark had - same year / color / interior / miles-ish / condition!!!

Let's get Mark IN THIS THING!!!

way cool
 

SmileWavy I wish I could leave more but after rebuilding my 3.3L wife's is on my ass .. LOL ! Keep up the work maybe I can send more later http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat5.gif

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:confused: you mentioned you maybe selling seats ? Now there is something I could talk the wife into giving me money for... what do you think

Kozmo

I plan to put the stock seats back in, thus I will have some fixed back racing seats available for sale. Send me PM for details.

Great to see your enthusiasm after all you've been through. Hope it all works out in the end, it's never easy anyways.

Let's keep this fundraiser goin' guys!
I'm sure we can all sympathize with Mark's unfortunate situation.
Here's a chance to help a guy that has always been a great contributor to this forum.
We need to get him back in a 930 ASAP...and we WILL, if everyone pitches in!

Hey all,

I sent an e-mail over to the Hagerty Insurace folks, hoping that they will pick up on this "advertisment opportunity" and publish the fund raiser link in the next issue of Hagerty Car News.

I hope they take the hint, as it is coming from a current Hagerty customer.

We'll have to see????

Mark

^ Hagerty is currently insuring the '87 GPW that I just bought too...and my '79...and my 911 race car

truth be told I didn't even consider insuring the race car until Mark posted about the garage fire. I called the insurance co. to inquire about insuring the '87 for theft, fire, etc. only (I am not registering the car for street use - don't want to pay sales tax on it). They said "sure we do that" Then I asked them if they covered race cars for the same, and they said they do that too.

I also upped the agreed value on the '79 - given recent events I thought is wise to increase my coverage.

When and if you get this car Mark I think a cruise over to your neck of the woods is in order to welcome it home.

Thanks for taking the initiative, Mark. I tell ya....if they do publish it and we get a good response, Haggerty will be carrying the insurance for my "new" 930....that's a promise.

That would be cool. A tad different than the west side of the cascades (brown is the predominate color here, dust vs. moss on the rocks, and sagebrush masquerading as pine trees), but there are some pretty good canyon runs to be had. The local PCA used to do a run in and around Coulee Dam as a starting point. I let my membership lapse and never joined them, though.

Mark .. we have never met but I grew up in Seattle and I have just about been every where in the state. So I know about some good back roads ...

I'm trying to get the wife to let me go see my buddies up there (they are all drag racers) and yes I will be driving my car. So I really can't wait to meet you in your new car. I need to break in my new motor so a good drive will help .

Kozmo http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat6.gif

Can anyone give us an update on where we're at in terms of meeting our goal? Last I saw was $10500 with 93 supporters on the 17th? This would be a really cool thing to accomplish if everybody continues to pitch in.

$10,900 with 97 participants... starting to trickle a bit though, and we do have a ways to go unfortunately

Couldn't bear it , while the wife was in the other room I tapped in again to make it even 11,000 http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat6.gif

ha!

NOICE!

ballar dude - too cool!

Hey all,

I received an e-mail back from Rebecca over at Hagerty Insurance. Unfortunately because of federal insurance regulatory rules, she could not post the link in their monthly magazine.

So I suggested that maybe she could at least run it around their office???

Rebecca bettered that, by saying that she would post it on the entire company's employee bulletin board!

Cross your fingers and hope we get a little traction here.

And for you Mark H., I really would suggest that any future 930 you get your hands on, you should insure it through Hagerty. They are fair on the price, and awesome to work with when you need to file a claim.

Mark

Well i bumped it up a bit

Excellent! See my response to you in post #59. You and I are thinking alike, must be a Mark-thing:
"Thanks for taking the initiative, Mark. I tell ya....if they do publish it and we get a good response, Haggerty will be carrying the insurance for my "new" 930....that's a promise."
I'll stand by that promise...whether or not they help this to gain some steam. Just posting it on their bulletin board tells a lot about them.

So what's the latest news?

About half way to the target, and slowed down a bit. I think if everyone that can, would make a second donation, we hit it quickly!!!

I know some folks gave deeper first time around and a few others have been back for a second dip, but not most of us. Paul did a great job is setting up the donation site and getting this kicked off. There was a lot of initial excitement from our community, then life happens and we get distracted.

I would really like to see us complete this and help Mark. He has unselfishly provided a tremendous amount of experience and advice on this forum. I know I have benefited from it, and I am sure most of the rest of us feel the same way.

Do what you can to get this across the finish line :)

I'm in hope you get it, had a little trouble. Mark's a good guy helped me last year with electric prob. Glad I can help

Im broke as usual so i cant contribute but im pulling some old bits out of the shed to put on ebay, if i get a decent price ill throw in a few dollarz,

I lost all my money on the stock market last year stupid me thought i was doing the right thing, im positive the market is being manipulated by some big players, cost me dearly so thats why i use plastic ties to fix my car much to the disgust to some here!

anyway if anyones interested before i list it ive got a decel valve a cold sart injector and a brand new thermotime switch for sale
tts $150 plus postage its still in the pelican bag unopened
cold start $150 plus postage,
Decel valve $40 plus postage

All from a euro 77 930
All working

Ill put in 10 percent to the cause as soon as i sell these

all i can do

Keep on Boosting!

Looks like we've been re-stickied here - excellent.

THANKS for resurrecting this thread / initiative, Rick. It'd sadly gone completely cold / dead for a solid month unfortunately.

Yet, a simple rustle of the bushes and up springs some further very kind participants!! We are at $11,875 as of today men!!!

Excellent work, by all accounts. But yes, still a ways to go. While we've certainly surprisingly had more than a few "multiple donators" - and more keep popping in again - It Takes a Village, folks!!!

We're marking the calendar until 7/24-7/27's turboPALOOZA where Mark takes delivery of his neu steed... and... hoping a strong number of youseses will join us for such and the ensuing shenanigans and debauchery. Please visit http://forums.pelicanparts.com/911-930-turbo-super-charging-forum/799260-turbopalooza-2014-special-stages-pa-ny-july-24-27-a.html for details, and hope to meet many more of you.

Let's keep this rolling... can't always be me reviving things here unfortunately, so thanks again for the inquiry!

Bringing home "Project Phoenix" today. Pics later. Stay tuned.

The snow has melted enough to get it out of the trailer... http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...boldyellow.gif

Kozmo

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More later

;) looks real nice ...

Kozmo

I agree...that looks really nice!

Jacob,
You and its prior seller are a big hero. I'd be happy if I was Mark.

factory sport seats
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Hmmm ? Does that mean we are thinking about seat change... :rolleyes:

Kozmo