Spendo's '67 912 Restoration

[Spendo65]

Thought I would share my car to all of you. I started this restoration in October. It's cruising along. My advice to anyone like me where this is a first time. Take a ton of pictures. This is the body in the paint shop. Just a little history, This car was purchaced in 1967 in Germany by my mother and shipped back to So. Calif. It was not taken care of as well as it probubly should have so I now am bringing her back to life. It had been painted once before or I don't think I would have done anything to the car. Hope this is enjoyable for you as it is for me.

[apriliaguy]

More pics of the work. Also cool story

Nice project! I really would recommend to do the best job you can afford, in the sense of time as well as money! Take the fenders of and remove all the rust where the fenders meet the body. Look at the joint between the targa bar and the body. Removing paint and body protection (Unterbodenschutz) is less work than you might expect. Remove all the suspension parts, clean them and replace all the bushings - driving the car will be much more fun. Check the steering column and rack, as well as the rubber joint between them. Clean up the whole breaking system, lines, mbc and calipers with new seals - it's all for your safety and other people on the road! Just a few examples, which will not cost you a fortune, only some time.

I'm starting my third project within a few months and experienced that each additional spent minute and euro/dollar will be paid back in many hours of fun and reliability of the car.

As you said: take pictures and pictures and pictures .... It's not only a great help for reassembling, a help for another project or for helping us here at the board, but also great fun to look at after the job has been done.

Take your time to save this unique car and keep posting. Any questions? Don't be afraid to ask.

Otto

[Spendo65]

Thanks Otto, I am doing the best I can, the car was stripped down to the metal, There was segnificant rust under the body but has been cut and welded with new metal. The bottom has been resprayed with undercoting. The targa bar was not as bad but has been worked on. I have not started on the breaks and suspention but my intentions are to go over the entire car and replace every thing i can think of. I'm in the prosses of purchacing all of the rubber. Man is there a lot. I am going to be in this a ton of money but my intentions are to bring her back as close as I can, when she rolled off the showroom floor in Stuttgart. I have the engine taken completely appart and it is at Competition Engineering. I believe that Walt up there will take good care of machining the parts for me to put back together. I'll keep up the post.

Spencer

[Spendo65]

The damage here was becaus the right side of the car never saw the sun in the driveway. So after washes it never drained completely plus living on the beach in the salt air did not help.

[Doug&Julie]

Sub'd. Good luck, looks like a great project!

[Spendo65]

[Spendo65]

[Spendo65]

Here are some more with paint and new undercoating.

[Spendo65]

Back to her original color of Light Ivory. Just the way it should be.

Hi Spencer, you are really making progress! I'm working almost two years now on my second 912, 65/66 polo red coupé. I hope to drive it this summer, but you never know if Murphy is hiding somewhere.

Below some more or less random pics of the project. As you can see a lot of metal work has been done. I try to keep everything as original as possible and prefer to use lead in stead of epoxy filler. Nevertheless I replaced the single circuit braking system by the later double circuit - reservoir in the smugglers box as with the single circuit - and replced the door locks with the later safer type - a factory recommended modification at that time.

Floor pans where bad, so replaced them completely.



Left side had a lot of rust as a result of poorly repaired damage. The filler kept the metal together. Lucky it was not a targa ...



New metal finished with lead. Some sanding and the primer can be applied.



I know there is a stainless 911 produced - in the Stuttgart Porsche museum? I need to go there. It's just a few hours drive from here. This is ordinary steel waiting for the epoxy primer.



Interior cleaned, welded and primered.



New paint in the original polo red. It needs to harden completely before it can be polished.



The freshly painted dash with cleaned/tested instruments.



View on the new carpetting. I kept the original seats, which where in nice condition. Side panels got a new foam and vinyl finish.
On the floor the original rubber mats will create the period correct atmosphere. A Porsche wooden steering wheel will be the cherry on the cake.



A lot of patience needed the dash top to get the new vinyl perfect on the metal frame. Not to forget the many holes to be made for the loudspeaker.



Steering rack.



I hope this will give you an impression and some additional motivation to continue your fine work.

Otto

The last two pics ...


Rear suspension.




Rear shock and heater control.



That's it for now,

Otto

[Spendo65]

Those are great photos. When i get my car back from paint. The suspention is the next phase I will work on while the engine is out.

[Spendo65]

Now you see gunk.















and now you dont.


I found out how to totaly dismantle these and put them back together on youtube. I could not believe how easy it was to do. Just waiting to grease and put boots back on and get my car back from paint to start on suspention. I bagged them with zip ties to keep dust and other out while storing, These were just hanging around the garage. I had these off when I dropped the engine. I had nothing else to do this day and had some fun.

[apriliaguy]

Link to the you tube rebuild please

[muis]

Originally Posted by apriliaguy

Link to the you tube rebuild please

Yes please!

Nice job! I remember the first time I did a set of CV joints. There was no YouTube at that time ...

It looks you are making a lot of progress. If you keep this tempo, you will be able to drive the targa this summer.

Any news from the engine?

Otto

[Spendo65]

Otto, I am hoping that i can enjoy the car this summer.

And to Apriliaguy and Muis, copy and past this link to your browser and the first one is part one and the second is part 2. It helped me tremendously. Hope it does the same. If I can anyone can. I had a lot of fun learning and intend to have more fun. Challenging but fun.
P.S. these are Loebro axles.

Spencer


Rebuilding CV joints - part 1 - YouTube

Rebuild CV joints part 2 - YouTube

[apriliaguy]

Thank you

[Spendo65]

Here are some more photos of the front end color sanded, without rubber. And a new grey wheel. All 5 have been restored. Still collecting rubber. Some tougher to find than others. but I got to hand it to Pelican for having GREAT Help and direction if they don't carry the part anymore. Got to love these guys!!