Post a pic of your project

[ishmeal]

I'm particularly interested and inspired by the body work you people put into your cars. Pan, fender, flares, and esp the guys who strip it down to just metal, weld in new body panels and bring it back. Be proud and show us your car and hard work. It'll help the few of us who're struggling to get our car rolling again.

[Doog]

A view of mine thru the paint booth window. Its getting close to completion.

rgds


Doog

[Tim K]

Hope these make you feel better.

The ravages of a leaking windshield seal (the back window looks similar).





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The ravages of a leaking battery

[jpnovak]

Before:






After: (nearly three years after!)

[project935]

Here's mine ... I'd like to see the end of the tunnel too someday. Starting my 4th year of ownership ... I've only been actively working on it over the past year.







Actually I'm making progress. Chassis has been blasted, primered, and I'm in the middle of painting it on my engine-mount rotisserie ... need to take some updated pics.

Bodywork??? Way down the line ...

jpnovak - what did you ever do with that tail?

[svandamme]

before:


after:

[ishmeal]

You guys amaze me. Mine wasn't even close to that when I took it metal. I guess at 2.5 yrs, I'm just beginning.

Keep 'em coming. Surely encourages me to go out to the garage and do some wrenching myself.

[jpnovak]

935- I sold it at a swap meet years ago. It was a cheap (and not so good) fiberglass version. It had to go. I am sure the funds paid for something along the way.

Ishmeal, Take your time, try to accomplish "stages" of the project. Mine started with welding and rust, then went to stripping undercoating, then flares, then paint... you get the idea.

Take your time and don't feel bad or alarmed if you have to sit in the floor boards, pretending to work the pedals with the steering wheel (not attached) in your hand going, Vreroom, errr, screetch, while thinking brake, heel/toe, shift, gas, gas, gas in your head. It will be worth it.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by ishmeal
You guys amaze me. Mine wasn't even close to that when I took it metal. I guess at 2.5 yrs, I'm just beginning.

Keep 'em coming. Surely encourages me to go out to the garage and do some wrenching myself.

hell , i only had mine 4 months before i tore it apart

actually , by now, i spent more months working on the car than i have ever been spending driving it

seriously need to win the lottery soon...
and get the Porsche gods to start liking me a little bit...

[john walker's workshop]

the old '87 cab getting a factory cabriolet removeable hardtop, turbo body work and '87 turbo brakes and suspension. it has an '87 turbo engine fitted, using a G50 gearbox. thinking about a silver top to match the ruf wheels, and black body.


one of the other projects is this highly backdated and updated '63 bus. complete '68 912 suspension, including torsion bar tube, 901 trans, 912 engine, 911 front suspension with shortened struts, discs and 15x6 fuchs all around. it was an 11 window bus, and i added the 15 window style rear window sections, deluxe rear hatch, factory sliding sunroof, walk-thru seat sections, backdated the tail-lights and front bullet turn signals, early wheel well arches, early brake light engine lid, new inner and outer rockers and cargo floor, and all the side windows will open to the rear. it will be black on top, forest green on the bottom, black seats w/green piping, green dash, black wheel and knobs, and as much polished deluxe aluminum trim as possible. hope to get it done by next summer. my 3.2 powered '63 doublecab sucked too much gas, so the 10 gallon tank should last a tad longer with a 4 cylinder.

[svandamme]

John, that's cheating... you know what you're doing cause it's your daily bread and butter thing... that's unfair competition to "i never touched an engine till the day i started this project" kinda guys like me

[ishmeal]

Originally posted by jpnovak
935- I sold it at a swap meet years ago. It was a cheap (and not so good) fiberglass version. It had to go. I am sure the funds paid for something along the way.

Ishmeal, Take your time, try to accomplish "stages" of the project. Mine started with welding and rust, then went to stripping undercoating, then flares, then paint... you get the idea.

Take your time and don't feel bad or alarmed if you have to sit in the floor boards, pretending to work the pedals with the steering wheel (not attached) in your hand going, Vreroom, errr, screetch, while thinking brake, heel/toe, shift, gas, gas, gas in your head. It will be worth it.

I've sat in that seat turning the wheels by myself late at night after a wrenching session imagining going down the road. That was a few years ago. Now, I've got two little boys sitting in my car with me going to "Walmart" as they imagine it, and I sit in the back seat. No, we're still in the garage "pretending."

Maybe they'll be the first to drive it down the road, once it actually moves.

All these people wanting HIGH horsepower, I just want 1 hp, I'd be happy

[jpnovak]

John, no picts of the early speedster? Always love that car.

The only thing that would make that bus better would be an additional 2 cylinders.

[911SCfanatic]

Cool thread. I have to go home and post pics of mine. I've finally gotten to the stage where basically everything is apart and now I'll be going in the other direction--REASSEMBLY!

[john walker's workshop]

you said projects, so here's some more. '58 ghia convert, '49 cad convert, '49 buick roadmaster convert, '50 cad 61 series short body convertible conversion w/500ci cad motor, '49 buick woody wagon converted to be a '49 cad woody. cadillac didn't make a woody, but buick shared bodies, so the conversion was a natural. behind that, out of sight, a '48 buick super woody. maybe i'll get them all done before i die.

[Scuba]

Awesome stuff guys!!!! I just bought a 1975 Silver Anniversary that I'm trying to work up the confidence to give the full strip-down treatment. It'll be my first REAL attempt at this kind of thing - I had a '65 Nova in college that I played around with to teach myself some stuff - but this is the first real deal restoration I'll be attempting.

svandamme - where did you get that roll over jig setup?

TimK - looks like your jig there is homemade? How do you get the chassis up on that sucker?

[svandamme]

that roll jig was in the diy garage where it work on my car...

if you want a full strip down ... use a rotissery... i bent my rear trailing arm with that jig... it's on the admit your stupidity thread...


http://www.liqui-technik.com/kipp1_e.html

it can work though , but it's kinda bad if you apply pressure on the belly of the car when it's rotated 90 degrees... which is kinda of unavoidable when you're scraping on the undercoating...

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by ishmeal


Keep 'em coming. Surely encourages me to go out to the garage and do some wrenching myself.

I've posted this pic here a couple of times.

So for entertainment is a pic of at least 5 yr old Imron black with no clear on my old '71 split bumper Camaro. Notice the rust in the wheel well and the best is it was never waxed or polished.. only washed and dried with 2 chamos[sic]. Notice no orange peel and the clairity of the small house windows. I faked the whole thing.

[Scuba]

Oh yeah, here it is.

[Scuba]

Originally posted by svandamme
that roll jig was in the diy garage where it work on my car...

if you want a full strip down ... use a rotissery... i bent my rear trailing arm with that jig... it's on the admit your stupidity thread...


http://www.liqui-technik.com/kipp1_e.html

it can work though , but it's kinda bad if you apply pressure on the belly of the car when it's rotated 90 degrees... which is kinda of unavoidable when you're scraping on the undercoating...

so you don't recommend the roll jig then? Is it unstable at a 90?