Here goes. To most I'm sure I've ruined this car. But considering its condition when I got it, I'm happy with the outcome. I cant wait to experience this thing on the road!
As a child, my dream car was a classic Porsche 911. I knew I would own one one day, but I didn't think it would be this early. OR under these circumstances.
I'm 26 y/o living in rural Southern Indiana, I Teach high school manufacturing and own an auto detailing business on the side. Three years ago my cousin sent me a link to a Facebook marketplace ad for a 1968 912. At first sight, it looked awesome and like it would be the perfect project!
Fast forward a week and I go look at this car knowing I cannot afford it, But I go anyway because I just wanted to see a classic 911 (912 in this case). The car is clean from afar. The paint looked okay, nice wheels, and no rust.... And then we open the door. Apparently, this car was a victim of the 80s-90s audio era. The dash had been completely cut out. This car was BARE on the interior. The person selling had stripped everything out of the interior and thrown it out as it was all custom ugly fiberglass and cheap interior bits. (Im sure it was high-dollar stuff back in the day). The only thing left was the dyno mat that covered everything.
We then walk around to the back of the car and this is when he informs me it was originally a 912 ( Short wheelbase I THINK) and had been converted to a flat 6 and LWB using 74 aluminum trailing arms. The guy is asking 25k for this car and a complete rolling chassis 68 912 parts car. The parts car was nice but the tub was completely rusted out. A 901 trans, and a box of parts for a 912 engine. I knew nothing about these cars or their worth. I just knew I couldn't afford 25k at that time.
To cut out alot of BS reading. I offered the guy 15k for everything and he accepted. my offer to my surprise.
I had every intention of putting an air-cooled engine back into this car. But the more I looked. I wasn't able to come up with 18k for the engine I wanted. After all. I wasn't about to be driving a 911 RSR that was slow! I continued to search for options. That's when I came across Renegade Hybrids. So here we are. Im putting an aluminum LS1 and a 996.1 transaxle into this car. It required tons of cutting and modifying. But the way saw it, this car was the perfect fit for an outlaw swap project being that it would NEVER be worth what it was. Unless I spent big money to have it all professionally converted back, which I wasn't going to do. You can love it, or hate it. The way I see it. I took a problem child of a car and am giving it a second life. And I'd like to think I'm pouring everything I have into this car to make sure it's done right, and exactly how I imagined it!
I get the car home and tear into it... This is what I was working with. I will try to post on here daily some updates. I should have been doing this all along. But I just became a member back in April. I'm on year 3 of this car and we are SO close to being on the road. Here are a few pictures from when I got it, and a few photos of the way it currently sits. I will continue to post about the process!
