I thought I'd post my recent barn find. I picked up a 1973.3 911T last week. I wasn't even looking for a car... but a friend heard from a family member that a co-worker had a Porsche in storage for the last decade and might be thinking of selling due to a divorce. My friend thought the car was in pieces due to a restoration he was doing but never completed it. So naturally, they thought of me. I thought, great! Just what I needed, another project car. I told her to get me the guys number and I'd give him a call. So I call the guy and he begins to tell me how he bought the car in Florida back in 1973. OK, so at that point he's got my attention because he's the original owner. He continues to tell me that he's had the car covered in his garage (ok, so it's not exactly a barn find but you get the idea) for the past decade because the car was having running issues due to the CIS. He was told that the problem was most likely rust or stuff in the fuel tank that must have clogged the outlet to the fuel pump. So he removed the fuel tank and cleaned it and treated it. He said that he did find rust in there and he treated the tank with some sort of rust killer made for gas tanks. So he wasn't doing a restoration, but merely trying to correct a poor running issue with the car.
Apparently life got busy and he never got a chance to put the tank back in. So there it sat since 1999. The car has 90,000 miles on it and is original. It has everything in there that was delivered when new, right down to the radio. He did mention that he replaced the fog lights with some JC Whitney units because the originals weren't working correctly. But he did have the originals in a box for me. The engine was rebuilt at 50,000 miles because his mechanic thought it should be rebuilt. So at this point I have an original car that hasn't been run in a decade. I turned the engine over by hand and it does turn over easily.
Check out the pictures of the interior. The dash doesn't have a single crack, the door pockets/panels are immaculate. Even the seats look good. The worst part about this car is the baby poop brown color (that's what my daughters called it). Over the next few weeks I'll start workng on it to try to start her up and see what's what. Hopefully everything's in order. I'll do the usual changing of fluids, filters, fuel lines, etc before I try to start her up. I'll try to keep you posted on my progress but I'll warn you it might be slow. Work and family are quite busy right now.
In case your wondering how much I paid. I'd rather keep that to myself just in case I decide to fix her up and sell. I wouldn't want to tip my hat to any potential buyer. What I am curious about is how much would you pay for this car. From what I can see it does have a couple of rusty areas on the door jamb and rear quarter window, but that's it. The battery boxes, front pan, floors rockers, all look solid.
I'll ultimately have to decide whether I want to restore this car back to original, build a track car out of it, or sell it. Life is full of tough choices.
