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How anal have you been during reconditioning/re-spray/while in there ?
Where do/did you stop and draw the line ? I find myself looking at parts which are more or less okay and then decide to just order a new one. I'm spending a lot of time on redoing/painting parts that will never see daylight again.
The impact absorbers are the latest object of my compulsive disorder. I want them to look new with shiny paint and new bolts. ![]() Please share your story and assure me that I'm not the only one out there. ![]()
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I don't have the funds to do allot of reordering with parts so I spend more time cleaning and painting. It's a hobby right?
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Draw the line? Anal?? Compulsive disorder??? You have definitely landed on the right website.
![]() Buy a copy of the "Gold Plated Porsche" before it is to late. ![]() The author is a frequent poster on this forum--maybe he will chime in.
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Just be careful, you don't want to end up where your car is so pristine that you are afraid to drive it.....unless you are one of those people, not that there is anything wrong with that.
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I am just starting to go down this road. i received all my suspension back from being blasted today. Have started on a project list here at pelican that seems to grow each day. Oh well it beats shovelling snow
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Garp, I have no idea what you mean. What is this "anal retentive" thing?Progress report
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Welcome to the club.
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another gold plated porsche. was just gonna do a quick spray job. oh well.
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fully disassembled, blasted, customized and restored 75 targa with factory hard top, 993 style turbo ft fenders, steel flares, C2 bumpers and rockers, 82 3.0 sc 9.5/1 engine with PMS flywheel, 964 cams, flowed heads, ssi's short geared 915 w/lsd, polybronze, bilstein,working lambda, modified and highly tuned cis, tensioners, pop valve, backdated exhaust and heater, 2300 lbs. no bolt left untouched. 1970 911E. Nice car but needs a re-do. |
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Im just glad there are others out there with the same affliction as me.
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why do you think i bought the lift!!!! to list everything i've done to the targa would overtax the server.
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and u still need to get rear lid supports, it never ends.
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fully disassembled, blasted, customized and restored 75 targa with factory hard top, 993 style turbo ft fenders, steel flares, C2 bumpers and rockers, 82 3.0 sc 9.5/1 engine with PMS flywheel, 964 cams, flowed heads, ssi's short geared 915 w/lsd, polybronze, bilstein,working lambda, modified and highly tuned cis, tensioners, pop valve, backdated exhaust and heater, 2300 lbs. no bolt left untouched. 1970 911E. Nice car but needs a re-do. |
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You guys are a sick bunch.
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Very entertaining read, this thread.......and there is something a person can take for that "retentive" condition............the "disease" is a whole 'nutha ballgame, I fear.
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I always thought it was all the "civilians" that were "sick." They're the ones driving Ford Explorers. Probably never powdered coated a lower A-arm in their lives, let alone agonized over what shade of black to use.
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Gonna just fix bodywork and paint, ok!
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