Where does your Porsche fund go?

[DByers]

Some recent work around the house has strained my Porsche piggy bank.

New play set = Four 7X15 Fuchs with new tred mounted & balanced
Sod = New torsion bars
Irrigation System = all new suspension bushings, turbo tie rods & a strut brace.
Doing the back yard yourself = gratifying
Watching the kids play while in your hammock drinking a cold one = fantastic
Using your Porsche fund to do it = Just a little painful



A little idea of what I was working with


Just thought I would share

[Rot 911]

Dan, did you do it all yourself? Either way, looks like a great place for the kids to play. All though I still get a shock at how small the yards are in CA!

Just to make you jealous here are a couple of pics of the area around my house. I am also in a British car club, hence all the British cars!


And another view

[ted]

Yards are small in CA because property is limited and expensive.
Call it our mild climate tax.
Yeah I feel I’ve contributed plenty to Tony Stewarts Home Depot NASCAR race team.
I had to buy 20 minutes from the closest San Diego beach for an affordable large lot.
My 6/10 of an acre, an old photo of the new construction 6 car garage roof just visible on the top left photo.
I like the space but I'd like it more if I had a full time gardener.
Kurt I am jealous of your house payment, no doubt!

[DByers]

Yeah Kurt, did it all myself. My Dad helped with labor. Last year I did the fences and the year before that the deck. I had someone come in to do the stamped concrete though. Next spring the front gets its make over.
The back yard is sizeable compared to some other in the SB area for the money we spent. Dont know what I would do with all that space you have. I wouldnt trade it do to the fact the school district is great and we are no more than a 1/2 mile walk to the beach through some nice bluff areas.
Ted your property looks fantastic.

[widebody911]

For right now, here: http://vintagebus.com/garage/updates/index.html

[Sarah]

I wish we could say we had a "porsche fund" again. It has been reduced to the credit card at the moment.

Dbyers...my husband just helped his cousin build this huge play fort thing for his kids...it turned out to be a mini construction project. I guess the kids love it so i'm sure yours do too.

Hey Ted...where in San Diego do you live? One of my sisters just moved to Rancho Penisquitos (sp???) but her address can also be San Diego. She said she is not that far from the ocean. Sounds like a beautiful area.

[ted]

Originally posted by Sarah
Hey Ted...where in San Diego do you live? One of my sisters just moved to Rancho Penisquitos (sp???) but her address can also be San Diego. She said she is not that far from the ocean. Sounds like a beautiful area.

Hi Sarah,
Yes I am aware of Rancho Penisquitos. Translated "little rocks".
Your sister is just inland of some very desirable beaches, Del Mar, La Jolla, Carlsbad to name a few.
I'm located 20 minutes south of Penisquitos in a city called La Mesa "the table" in the community of Mt Helix.

You and I have non identical twin 911’s.
I just picked up an 86 black on black turbo look,
similar to your 87 but without the performance.
Take care,

[Sarah]

She has mentioned Del Mar and said they are finishing a highway that will go straight to the beach.

I'm glad her city means "Little Rocks"...it kept making me think of "Mosquitos" everytime I heard it. We have a lot of them here in MN.

Your black porsche does look like ours. I had to have black on black...sometimes it feels like a sauna in there though.

[RickC]

Dan:

Looks great!

And good choice! You're 911 was well built and will still be beautiful (and need parts) in 2013. But you're kids will only be young once!

Rick

[APZak]

Dan - Wow thats the same backyard? (before and after) You and your dad did a great job.

Thanks for the seat screws, I'll send you pictures of my seats when I'm finished. I painted them, but one of them has a broken screw thats stuck and we kept wearing out drills and getting nowhere. We are going to buy carbon drills (or something my dad knows what to get) and give it another shot. When you changed the screws in your seats, what did you do about the middle screw? Sounds like a nut falls into the seat when you take out the original screw, and when you try putting a new screw in, theres nothing for the thread to grip onto. Is the middle screw important? I'm thinking of just putting glue on the bottom of the head so it looks like it's screwed in. The only other option I have is taking apart the seat cover and trying to find whatever came off which sounds like more work then I need right now.