Hi everyone, I'm Brian and I'm a longtime lurker but this is my first thread. I've been a car enthusiast since I was a teenager, and I just turned 40 this year. I love to tinker on my cars on the weekend in our two-car garage.
This thread is about my first aircooled Porsche, a 1977 Porsche 911S that I picked up locally. It spent the past 10+years in indoor dry storage in nearby Lexington, NC. It was originally Ice Green Metallic. I wanted to find the car with the best bones I could in my budget. The main thing for me is that it has a super straight rust-free body, as I am not a body guy. I can mig weld but it's to everyone's benefit if I don't need to often. It was repainted in the 90s with a Maaco special which is failing. Looks pretty good from 20 feet away but not so great up close. Also, it has a 914-6 engine in it which I plan to sell and replace with probably a carbureted 2.7 or 3.0 but we will see. As for my goals with this project, I have very plain taste. I would like to redo all the mechanicals, get the car reliably running and driving (and probably hot rodded a little), lower it some but not aggressively and get rid of the 90s interior additions. Beyond that we will see as we go. I work full time, have a wife and teenage daughters so I will typically work for about a half day on the weekend and update the thread weekly as I go.
Prior to this project, I've mostly had VWs, specifically Mk1s and Mk2s although I also had a Beetle and Karmann Ghia. I finally got to a place in my life a couple years ago where I could fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a 911. I bought a 996 which you can read about here if you are interested:
My Arctic Silver 99 C4
I owned it for about a year and a half and really enjoyed it but was running out of things to tinker on, so I recently sold it on Bring a Trailer.
A couple of my past projects include this CC on airlift suspension and a 1977 VW Rabbit that I picked up in Georgia and got back on the road which you can read about here:
1977 OG Rabbit but there have been many others. People always ask me why I put so much work into cars just to turn around and sell them when I am finished. I guess the fun for me is mostly the problem solving, time in the garage working with my hands and figuring things out. Once I run out of things to work on, I tend to lose interest and move on to a new project. Thankfully, this 911S needs a lot and should keep me busy for a long time.
