Expect to see a hacked up Boxster cluged into an early longhood-looking atrocity? No, not here. I recently acquired a longhood project that has gotten a little long in the tooth. I was told the PO's wife once described it as a "Boxster" to a friend, since it was all in boxes. I thought that was a pretty clever description.
The car is an early-73 Targa that sat in a garage on jackstands for about 8 years prior to my purchasing it and from the history I have been able to put together, it has been in approximately the same state for the last 20+ years. I'm am hopeful to break the trend.
Here is a picture of it as it rested before I bought it:
The color is a pearl white that could only be found on an early-90s Lexus LS400. It actually is a decent 10 foot job but at the risk of offending any 1990 Lexus owners here, it is pretty ugly. I found the color code plate in a box and it suggests the car was originally Sepia Brown. The color inside the fenders and on various other hidden parts of the car support this. It has a period correct but a non-numbers matching 2.4T MFI motor out of a '72 donor. It is very dirty and hasn't been cranked in a long time but I am told it was dyno'd when removed and is supposed to only have some 40k odd miles. We'll see... I budgeted for a rebuild just in case.
I'd like to throw out some thanks to those who I have either spoken with here or lurked on their threads. First to kkinzli, who just lives a few hours down the road. His candid description and hands on approach to restoring his 69 is inspiring. Hopefully we'll get to meet in person soon. To Fishcop for the great job on his 69 and for building and posting dimensions for the "Octisserie". To my friend, neighbor, and fellow pelican jbizzle78, who is probably the reason I own a 911 in the first place. Many a late night have been spent in his garage lending a hand on his '71... it's what set the hook. There are many more to but you get the point... I don't want this to start sounding like an Emmy acceptance speech.
Here is a pic of the car moved to its new location, along with the boxes of parts that either go with it, or someone along the collected thinking they would go with it:
I'll end it here for now. Getting ready to head out to work on it. Since the above picture was taken, I have nearly completely stripped in preparation for body and paint work.
Thanks for looking!
Enter obligatory waving smily here:
