Next up for the Rat was acting as a carriage for our wedding the day after Thanksgiving in 2011. We drove the Rat to the beach for a small ceremony with our parents. My awesome mother in-law (the same one that shops at Pelican:)) took a bunch of paparazzi style shots of us on the drive to the beach. My dad and I polished the Rat for the pictures and added the appropriate wedding touches. The next two pictures are leaving from the house


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The next pic shows the sign my mother made and a certain sticker that should more than make up for ordering the hot start relay from Zims

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The following are four more pictures with the last one being the standard good luck shot leaving the beach after the wedding and champagne at sunset! The flowers were attached with 40lb fluorocarbon snook leader!

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Over Christmas we had my entire family living in our house for three weeks (A total of 10 people in a modest 3 bedroom house) so I waited to start the restoration of the Rat until the start of the Spring semester 2012. My wife is a saint for putting up with so many crazy Germans in our house for so long!!

Very cool!
 

What a great thread! Please be sure to bring the Rat to the 12 Hours of Sebring this year. I'll be hosting a Early 911S Registry get together on Saturday March 17th. Hope you can make it!

nice. ;)
have you picked up some hungarian yet?

Thanks, glad you like it! Sorry to say but there is NWIH that the Rat can make the trip to Sebring;). I hope to update the progress on the car so you see why in the next couple of days. If I am lucky maybe I can bring it to HSR in the fall at Sebring. Let me know about the get together. Peter and I might try to make it!

Thanks! I have picked up some Hungarian and am going to a Hungarian language camp for three weeks in Budapest this summer. There is a cool guy in Hungary Hun911 doing a resto with all his own metal fabrication on the Paint and Bodywork Forum. My wife has actually learned to drive the Rat!!:cool:

Once the family left and the semester started I figured it was the perfect time to paint and restore the Rat. My wife is a PhD student at USF and commutes so I am alone on Monday and Thursday nights and figured it was the perfect semester to get going on the Rat. Here are a few pictures of day 1 of the disassembly

And so it begins. I hope this is a good idea


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Pictures from day 1 - lights, signals, and bumpers

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On the first day the neighbors kid, Noah, came over and asked if he could help with the car. I immediatly checked with Obi Wan and he said I was ready to face the Porschemaster trials and therefore I was able to take Noah on as my Padawan learner:). Sometimes my apprentice waits for me in the driveway after I come home from a hard of teaching and is just itching to work on the car. Having an apprentice is great motivation!

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i lived there for many years and am fluent in hungarian.
have fun learning it, it;s quite different. ;)

what field is she working on her PhD in & how far along is she?

After Day 1 I realized that I would need a few more tools for the job. Here are some pictures of what I have to work with. I got most of my stuff from Harbor Freight and put together my garage based off of the advice from many wise Pelicans.

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The next image shows my $20 HF sandblaster and Home Depot play sand ($3 for 50lbs) drying

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All sorts of fun painting supplies. I am going with PPG DP 40 epoxy primer and am painting all of the hidden places with a paint brush!
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Pressure washer is great at blasting paint off after using Aircraft stripper
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The Makita is an absolute must
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Tool Cabinet - That is officially the last poster from Rennsport - Thanks Obi Wan. The Speedster belonged my uncle Burkhardt in the picture. He died in the car in 1964 at age 21:(

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917s for inspiration (Note the seats so the date is later in the restoration)

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German Flag, awesome old ghetto blaster (Thanks Peter), Shop Vac and extension cord setup

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Safety Equipment:cool:
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Alright! Time for Day 2 pictures - Removing hood, door mirror, rear glass, wipers, washer jets, package shelf trim (I had this redone by Ed Paleo in ABQ - forgot to mention it earlier) and blower cover in trunk

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Day 3: Fenders and rocker panel trim

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Check out the fender attachment point. Aren't those two bumps for oil lines?
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Thanks! I will do my best :)

She is in her second semester of class work and is in English and wants to be a medievalist. She is also going for a Comp Lit certificate and wants to be a professor. Now why on earth would anybody want to do that?;)