67 912 Build Thread-Bastard

[Porschenutt]

Hello Pelican,

Figured I would start an official build thread on my 67 912. Hopefully when finished it will be a nasty bastard of a car. It will be painted what I hope is an interesting 50's VW color and basically just be loud and quick and NASTY!

So long story short, I knew about this car for a long time, some years ago I bought a 356 off the owner and at that time 912's were not really worth much and I was only interested in his 356. A number of years later, probably 12 years or so, I decided to stop by and see if he still had the car and would sell it. Timing is life is everything, apparently the owner was moving within the next 10 days and he was getting ready to list the car for sale.

I bought the car and a number of extra parts (2 motors, 356 parts) and he made me buy his 914 because he wanted it gone. Luckily on the drive back I sold the 914 to the tow truck owners son (wife would freak with all these cars and parts all over).

I crawled around the car the best I could and it seemed solid. Owner said he replaced the floors, front suspension pan, etc. Well upon stripping the car I found what you see in the below pics. Through the help of Pelican I found Matt (theFixer) and we have just begun repairing the car. This may be a bit of a slow build but we will update this every time we make some progress.

[Porschenutt]

[Porschenutt]

The car came with the matching numbers 912 motor and a 71 911t motor and trans. Not sure what I will use for a motor yet, but it will get a 911 motor.

[Porschenutt]

While stripping the car I found this mess and thankfully Matt (theFixer) came to the rescue. I will let him post more pics of what he found and what he has done to repair the car so far.

[gamin]

Go for it. My first Porsche was a 66 912. Really fun car. Wish I still had it. Have a soft spot for 912's.

[Fixer]

Originally Posted by gamin

Go for it. My first Porsche was a 66 912. Really fun car. Wish I still had it. Have a soft spot for 912's.

This will be a 911 hot rod as it will have Flat 6 Power. But i agree 912s are great. 912s also had world rally wins iirc. I have a '68 and it makes me smile every time i see it even in it's current state.

We have repaired the passenger side strut tower so far. Steve picked up a good used strut tower section on the West Coast that was just enough to remove the rusty area caused by a large mouse nest. This opened strut cavity was prepped, weld through primed and repaired. We'll also spray WURTH's Cavity Wax into this strut cavity
via the demister duct hose opening.














We have 8 hours time in at this point. I noted that replacement outer rocker panels have been installed incorrectly which is causing the doors to be misalligned. Taillight boxes were made out of heavy ga sheet metal and need removal and replacement. The floor pan replacement is OK but needs cosmetic clean up of the welds and seam sealing. We spent 2.5 hours today and started removing the thick paint with Aircraft Stripper.. Original color guess anyone?

[Fixer]

pics of stripped quarters. We'll strip all the paint and filler to get a look at what we're dealing with. Lots of paint on this one. No accident damage yet

[Fixer]

Have to say i'm not digging the thread title Steve

Anyway, plugging away a few hours a day on Steve's '67.

2 hours spent stripping and cleaning the car out (it was full of mouse/squirrel offerings) Tomorrow a few more hours stripping.

I later spent 1 hour pulling the 5 instrument gauges, bagging the brackets/knurled nuts, cleaning the wiring with xylene and labeling them for quick reconnect after i paint the interior. It's wise to remove them at this point.

The gauges all test fine. I can restore them well and cost effectively for Steve if he will trust that with me.

I can definitely save him some $ if he does. If he doesn't like them, it'll be a freebie.. I was quoted around $2000 to restore these with new chrome rings. I can restore the chrome and paint the inner bezel satin black. My work will look like very nice condition original gauges and not look over restored.
No need to spend $2000 on these as the faces do not need to be re screened, only cleaned.

Note the original radio..Cool car.

[Rich Lambert]

Sub'd!

[fanaudical]

Looks like a good project!

Something to think about - A numbers-matching 912 is probably more rare than a 911 right now...

[cnielsen]

Looks great Steve! I'm glad the patch panel worked out for you.

[kcheves]

>Original color guess anyone?

Light Ivory

[Fixer]

Another few hours spent removing the thick paint to expose the original primer.

I spent 3 hours cleaning the interior of the gauges and removing the corrosion from the chrome plated brass bezels. Here are the "before" pics.

[Fixer]

Here are the "after", I still have to prime and paint the inner bezels a flatish/satin black.

Then i'd like to add a coat of wax and pack them for safe keeping. There are some imperfections in two bezel rings (see tank gauge and clock) due deeper corrosion areas but this adds the character a 47 year old Porsche should have. They really look fine in person and it will not be noticeable when they are installed. I'm not a fan of over restoring and Steve will only have 6.5 hours into their restoration.

$2000 cosmetic-only restoration estimate from Palo Alto, or $390 and buy a real nice set of tires or other stuff with the savings?

The clock lens was tough to get all of the scratches out as these are soft plastic and Steve's had deep scratches around perimeter of lens. Cleaning the inner lens is also a bit tricky but i have a method.

I'll finish them tomorrow (inner bezel). I'll use high quality 3M corrosion resistant primer which atomizes like a professional sprayer (really cool) and use VHT topcoat enamel which also sprays very well. I will also paint the clock timer adjustment knob.

[Fixer]

Basically done,
but i'll need to detail the outer chromed bezel edges adjacent to painted edge to get all the masking tape adhesive seen in detail clock pic off carefully with xylene. Green tape is real sticky. Looks good. 6.5 hours as estimated. I'll post finished pic tomorrow.
Have a great day everyone

[Fixer]

Removed tape adhesive and waxed. I need to touch up the outer edge (at bottom) of the RPM gauge inner black finish as you can see.
The rest look fine.

[vintagecarlover]

Amazing guages. Big basket of tricks

[Fixer]

Originally Posted by vintagecarlover

Amazing guages. Big basket of tricks

Definitely a big improvement for the little $ spent. Here are better close ups.

[Porschenutt]

Wow Matt!

[Fixer]

Originally Posted by Porschenutt

Wow Matt!

That's just because next to my hands, anything looks pretty.