I want to do another hot rod so bad I could sell my S to raise the money, unless.....

Zeke · 08-30-2005, 05:07 PM

......Unless someone would like to sponsor the project. Bring me a mid year, SC or Carrera and let me build some one-off, Calif cool Ruf style bumpers (but not really that much Ruf), the likes of which you have never seen before. I'll even listen to your ideas, but they will have to integrate with my designs. I'm talkin' CGT thru the valance exhaust and some smooth lines from the 964> coupled with some history like RSK. If that doesn't float your particular boat, don't call.

This is what I did when I was in my 20s. I styled custom car parts and built plugs, then molds. I'm reverting at age 60, LOL.

Someone bring me something before my ideas go stale. (All I need is a shell.)

herman maire · 08-30-2005, 06:06 PM

Milt
I hate to say it but im also thinking of selling my 73 S sun roof coupe also,
man I feel guilty for even thinking about it because I just got it and I love it.
but I can relate because I wanna build a beast and I just dont want to wreck a rare model and I dont have the funds yet to do 2 cars.

Though choices, actually they suck.

How much do you think the value of a coupe will increase in the next 10-20
years or are they going to stick around the $20-40,000 mark?

Oh and if I had the cash I would send you a shell asap to get going.
are you still doing a lot of body work?

Zeke · 08-30-2005, 07:02 PM

Am I still doing a lot of body work? Let's put it this way, I have never worked in a body shop. I have worked in, managed and owned fierglass parts maf'g business all relating to car parts. I did tooling work for Ford's J car, the failed sucessor to the GT-40 (hey, I didn't design it!), I did same on Mickey Thompson's Gulf/Reynolds LSR, I did a ton of crap for Corvettes including some of the worst hood scoops you've ever seen (but they sold like hotcakes) and I designed a proprietary line of VW bolt-on stuff about the time that EMPI was selling 1000's of flared FG fenders. Can't say I was as sucessful as they were and I was bought out by a company called TractionMaster, whom I went to work for until I realized I was a shop guy, not a desk guy. Then, I went in to construction. That was 35 years and 8 months ago.

AFA the early S, I really don't want to sell, but mine was thrashed and trashed when I got it. After some mulling over and a lot of converstion here, I decided to make a gentleman's cafe racer out of it with a bit of 911R influence. So, even though it's not painted and I'm working on building a motor for it, the creative side of that project is done and I need something.

AFA yours, maybe I'm not the one to ask about future value. I've never made any money on cars and probably never will. I have an artist's mentality, sort of impractical. I build things out of wood, steel, plastic or whatever is at hand and needs to be done. I don't want to build a race car with AIR, GT or Shaw parts, I want to build a one-of-a-kind functional show piece. My hero is Alois Ruf. I don't think I can do better, just different and what I see in my mind is not in the catalogues that I've seen.

Don't ask for sketches, I don't draw. I find a top piece of something I like and marry it to a middle and put something else on under, over or where ever and blend it to make a plug. All in full scale right on the car so I can see what it is going to be in the different light and shadows and from all angles. You can't do that on paper or a computer (or I can't).

It's a form of sculpturing and I've done that too. Some pieces even made it to shows, but that was B.C. (before construction).

KobaltBlau · 10-25-2005, 02:20 PM

bump ... Still motivated Milt? None of the bumpers for late cars appeal that much, would love to see your ideas realized!

flipper · flipper's Garage

hmmm.......interested, more details of $s and time..

randywebb · 10-25-2005, 04:59 PM

I'll buy you a bottle of bubbly if you can strip down to 1,600 lbs. or lower...

Zeke · 08:41 PM

Interesting to see this revived. There was a '74 roller here in SoCal on the FS BBS that I was getting ready to take a crack at when TRE snatched it up. This would have given me the "fixture" onto which I could have started my project. I am working on obtaining some commercial space for about one car at a time. I have 2 projects waiting now, both 914s. When, and if, they get done, I will get back to this.

All I need really to execute my ideas is a mid year roller and some 964 bumpers to hack up to make some plugs. Plus, any broken 996 Turbo font end bits would likely find a nice home stuck in there somewhere.

Money? What's that? Bucket of resin, some mat and cloth and a fiver of bondo and I can make anything. What do you want?

I get a lot of inspiration from this car.....

Zeke · 08:49 PM

This is the only way I could get it to show, a new post.

But, I would poll in the bumpers to make the car shorter.

sp441 · 10-26-2005, 10:03 AM

Zeke do you know what color that car is?

SC-targa · 10-26-2005, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zeke
I did tooling work for Ford's J car, the failed sucessor to the GT-40 (hey, I didn't design it!), I

Hey, the J car spawned the mighty MkIV that won the only two races they were entered in. LeMans and Sebring in 1967.

Jerry Kroeger

jose luis · jose luis's Garage

Same question as : sp441

What color/code is the Car ?

It is bautiful.

JL Garcia
912, 1968
Toluca , Mexico

KobaltBlau · 10-26-2005, 01:44 PM

Seems closest to minerva blue, but I don't think it is. Same thing with baltic blue, not far off but not the same, I don't think.

I bet it's not a porsche catalogue color.

TRE Cup · TRE Cup's Garage

Milt, if you are serious, then you need to stop in one saturday so we can discuss what we have and your S. could be we can make a deal.......
unfortunately i am out this weekend for a lil R & R (Racin and racin somemore) but can meet with you Nov 5th
lemme know
dave

pjv911 · pjv911's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Zeke
This is the only way I could get it to show, a new post.

But, I would poll in the bumpers to make the car shorter.

My 82` is the same color . Everyone loves it .

My wheels are a measley 17" . What size are those ? 19" ?

Kurt Williams

pjv911 · pjv911's Garage

And are those invisable rotors on there ? lol .

Kurt Williams

randywebb · 10-26-2005, 04:30 PM

IIRC that car had some sort of modified BMW color used on it - I know it was discussed before... maybe a pearlescent color was used.

pjv911 · pjv911's Garage

Correct my car is also a bmw blue . I have the paint code at work (on the can) . If someone is interested I will post the code tommorow . I recall it was a 2003 color .

Kurt Williams

sp441 · 10-26-2005, 04:46 PM

I would be interested in the color code. Thanks

Zeke · 10-26-2005, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TRE Cup
Milt, if you are serious, then you need to stop in one saturday so we can discuss what we have and your S. could be we can make a deal.......
unfortunately i am out this weekend for a lil R & R (Racin and racin somemore) but can meet with you Nov 5th
lemme know
dave

Well, that "unless...." is a supposed to be a pretty big indication that it would take a lot to get me off my S. (Not so much to get my off my ass, though

)

reed930 · 10-27-2005, 06:00 AM

I'm guessing that color is baikal blue, a BMW color from the early '70s.