Well, well, well... I go away for dinner, and I come back and everyone's trying to get in good with the moderator.
My car is actually not even in the top ten of the best (and best-looking) 911's on this board. In my opinion (and in no particular order), Randy Jones, Randy Wells, Mike Marshall, John Walker, CurtisAA, Cris Huergas, Mark Hargett, Matt Holcomb, Leland. RarlyL8, Dave Griswold, just about every car in R Gruppe... and others I can't think of right now -- all have more carefully and cleanly put together cars.
My goals with my car were pretty straightforward. I wanted it to 1) look like I wanted it to look and that it 2) not be too clean or shiny (it still has never been waxed), so that 3) I could drive the crap out of the thing (preferably at a track) on a regular basis, like this:
Quicktime Driving
AVI Driving
I'll never win a concours (no wax, lots of chips), an SCCA or POC club race (hopeless in their classification systems), or a popularity contest with the neighbors (the $60 'German'
Flaumeister muffler insures that part).
But it's exactly the car I want. And I take a lot of pictures of it, and it looks pretty nice on camera. After 20 years of driving whatever car I could afford, it's nice to finally be able to own one that I love.
Another guy who's done the retro treatment to a later car, in his case to a Carrera, is CurtisAA, on this board.
But thank you for the kind words about my car, my writing, my devotion to an idea, and my wife. Knowing that there are a lot of guys on the internet who know about me, now, I'll take care to keep them all carefully locked up.