Addiction run amuck: your opinion needed (long description)

Shaun @ Tru6 · 07:15 AM

Here are the principle players. Pics, links below.

84 Targa: 241K miles, motor never opened, still runs strong, I love this car as a daily driver

69E: Found in CA while on business 2 years ago at a very low price, fulfilled lifelong dream of stumbling onto a car and driving it across country. Using bolt-on parts, making it into my version of a "European café racer". In process or on the car:
yellow H1-lensed H4s
Abarth steering wheel
Scheel 914-6GT seats OR leather sport seats
deep 6s, rears widened to 7Rs
etc.

73 Track car: Links below say it all, but I spent 6 months taking the down to bare metal then building back up after collecting parts for over 2 years. It's been sitting for some time after I quit my job last summer and started G9Girl, but just got the last few bits to get it track-worthy and go to paint. It only needs time, no $.

Here's my quandary
Fellow member YTNUKLR posted these P/C the other day which went up on eBay, ending tomorrow.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7962125747&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT

In our discussions, Scott is willing to trade these for my tired 3.2 in the 84. these P/C, combined with the appropriate case, etc., provide the ultimate expression of the café racer vision. The car would look like a total sleeper, but be as fast as anything out there. Of course this would be 2 years down the road, as I expect something like a minimum $15K bill for such a motor, although I know a long-retired builder from Jo Siffert's 914-6GT team and he may want to do it for fun.

If I do this, my Targa sits OR I pull the 3.2 out of the track car and use that for some time.

If I do that, the track car sits for longer and longer.

Then Scott threw a curve ball at me and said he can rebuild my 3.2 at a great price, even with shipping to and from CA. Even put a few mods in it at still a great price.

Variables
My 84 Targa motor runs very strong, but clearly won't forever. Now is the time to do something with the motor before it grenades (I run it very hard all the time). I have plans to cut the targa bar off, sell all my targa tops (it's an addiction, remember) and put one of Thom's hardtops on it.

Toward the end of the body strip and build and after the cage was put in the track car, I found a large dent in the right side torsion bar tube as though the car was backed into something hard. I believe the dent is interfering with the torsion bar but don't think (pray) that the tube itself is moved. I have an SC torsion bar tube just recently given to my by fellow member JBurger. thanks Jeff! So it's fixable, but a big job, or I could go wtih coil-overs perhaps.

I think that about covers it. One this is I need to decide by tomorrow morning if I want to do the swap with Scott as his auction is ending.

Thoughts?

The cars (old pics)

YTNUKLR · YTNUKLR's Garage

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