Hi all, just thought I would introduce Gretchen. She was born in 85 and grew up in Florida. She spent most of her life there until making her way to the Seattle area where I found her about 5 years ago.
I purchased this car with the intent on someday doing a resto-mod. I needed a project and some garage therapy. I drove her for a couple of years while fixing this and that until one day when I was "in there" and just couldn't stop.
So I started tearing her down to see what needed fixing, refurbishing and replaced. At this point I still didn't know exactly what I was going to do as far as just a restore, backdate or...?
I looked at all the great cars on this site and finally decided on a RS style backdate and started looking for parts. I was reading a local shopper type newspaper one day during my lunch break and came across an ad stating VW parts and some Porsche parts. I called the guy right then to see what he had. Turns out he was building a race car out of a 73 and had a bunch of original panels for sale. Hood, fenders, tail, front signal housings, horn grills, etc. The hood and tail where in great shape, just needed a little attention but the doglegs on the fenders were gone. I asked what he wanted for all of it and couldn't believe my ears. I bought everything on the spot!
I figured I could use the hood, cut the front turn signal extensions off and use them on my 85 fenders. At this point I figured I better learn how to weld so I purchased a small Mig (Miller 135) off of craigslist. What a great little machine.
The drivers side extension had a pretty signification rust bubble on it that need cut out so I cut it out, fabbed up a piece I cut from the old fender and welded it in.
To be continued...