MrPim,

Thanks! The worst pictures are saved on my server and will only be showed at your own risk. Just looking at them would force you to buy a recent Porsche with galvanized body and a few years rust warranty ...

Well, I used the Glasurit 022 paint system without any specific rust inhibiting paint, according to the system used in the '60's, so without a clear coat. Glasurit was one of the original paint suppliers from Porsche. I have to say that I primered the stripped/sanded/blasted parts as soon as possible to protect them for new rust.

Apart from originality and quality, these old style paints like Glasurit give a specific gloss uncomparable to the modern water based paints. Take a look at the modern cars and ask yourself why you have to accept (be happy with) orange peel in the paint as if it was sprayed by a plumber.

After painting all cavities where treated with a lanoline based wax. They say it helps conservation. However, I think the best way to preserve the car for the future is trying to prevent to drive it during winter (salty roads) and on rainy days. Salt, dirt and water/humidity are the enemies of all cars. I could show you some rust repair pics from my galvanized '78 911 Targa body, which could easily have been taken from the polo '65 red 912. The 911/912 body has some realy stupid construction details regarding rust, galvanized or not.
Otto

Oregon, California, and Washington are three states that do not use salt, just a little sand.

There is only one word to describe your results: uitstekend !!!

Thanks Bob!

Bedankt voor je compliment!

Otto

Hello Otto, maybe you should show me those pictures so that i really know what mess i will be getting myself into!

As always with these older cars, rust is the age old enemy.
I thought you might have sprayed rust inhibiting paint like POR15 or Wurths into the problem areas to avoid any future recurrence.

I´m not very familiar with these cars in respect to rust, which areas were the ones that you found rusted on the 911 and the 912?

Pim,

Basically the rust issues aren't that bad at all. Some just take a tremendous amount of time to repair. Floor pans, rockers, rear seat pans or a parcel shelf, they are all available as after market parts. Not as cheap as for aVW beetle, but available.

For a lot of other potential rust places, like under the front and rear window seals, the front signal light boxes where the signal lights and horn grills are put in, battery area, lower ends of the front fenders, targa bar mounting points and other places where water resided and did its destructional work and ..... you need to have some skills regarding metal work. Of course some specific tools are needed to form the parts needed.

We only drive the old Porsches when the weather is fine and no rain is to be expected. I think that the original primer/paint is good enough to conserve the cars for the next 10-20 years. 95% of the rust repair I had to do was the result of rain and humid debris and sand gathered in hidden places (lower A-pillar) and leaking seals.

Take a look on the following site. Darryl Deppe did a very nice 912 restoration. There you can see what to expect when buying a restoration project.

DarrylD's Porsche 912 Restoration Project Journal

But it's not only the body work. Often the mechanical maintenance has been poor for several years and new brakes, fuel tank cleaning, suspension bushings and many more need attention. When lucky the engine just needs some intensive "basic" maintanance...

When visiting a seller, Always take someone - possibly with some Porsche 911/912 experience - with you. Two pairs of eyes and ears Always see and hear more than one pair.

Otto

Regardless of whether it was a carpeted cover or a piece of black colored cardboard under the metal grill, didn't all 911/912s without the gasoline heater have the access hole sealed off?

ejboyd5,

The parts list gives three types of covers: one up to '67, one for the '68 model year and one for the '69 model. But .... they all have the same part number 901.504.731.30. I would interprete that as just one replacing the other and therefore keeping the same part number

According to what I've seen and remember, all '67 and later models have the grill type cover mounted. Just very few of them had the relatively rare Webasto heater option or Webasto cool air fan mounted, like my '68 has. So only model year '66 has the solid cover. Apart from the pics in one of my previous posts, I've no real prove for that. Neither for your suggestion that there is a relation - or not - between the optional Webasto heater or Webasto fresh air fan.

Perhaps the reason that the factory installed the closed cover is that with the introduction of the 912 they did not intend to offer the Webasto heater/fan, expecting not to sell the relatively expensive option. A closed cover is cheaper to produce than the one with sleeves. As soon as the started offering the Webasto's, they mounted a standard sleeved cover. Just my idea.

Confusing, but thanks for the input on one of the least important details of the 912 - apart from the correct color code for the ignition cables of course ...

Thanks,

Otto