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the brown car

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Join Date: Apr 2011

Location: behind the redwood curtain, (humboldt county) california

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Garage

General Information

Vehicle Name	the brown car
Year	1974
Make	Porsche
Model	911
Color	Sepia Brown
Packages	S gauges, carrera bars
History	This car was my dad's pride and joy. As an engineer, he really apreciated the car, bought it new and spared little expense keeping it up. I have had several porsches and my best sales job was to get him to move from chevys to Porsche. We shared many great days driving the cars and talking shop.

Modifications

Exterior

Electric right side mirror. Repainted10k miles ago, wheels refinished.

Exterior Images

Interior

Smaller "Dino" steering wheel, some reupholstery work, halon fire extingusiher. AC disabled to run factory front cooler.

Performance Upgrades

85 Carrera front cooler & factory lines, t stat.
Cibie H-1 headlights. Factory Carrera bars. Brake cooling with air block off plates.

Engine / Under the Hood

Rebuilt 10k & 10 years ago. Recently lost block thermostat, so pulled engine and replaced every hose and exterior seal, rebuilt alt, dist & starter, did the clutch and am getting ready to do an MSD6AL & petronix to simplify maintenance.

Suspension

Carrera, (20 & 18 mm bars) Wevo rear bar mount, rebushed with ER a arm bushings & sport top strut bushings. Rears to be done soon, with adj spring plates, (freshly plated) & ER bushings & HD Bilsteins

Wheels and Tires

Refinshed Fuchs, (6x15) and 195/50-15 dunlop direzzionale star specs, (great tires).

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