This is a continuation of my first thread.
Here we go; I was going to buy it and sell it for a modest profit, but no, I'm keeping it and driving it. I'll document the status and progress of this red machine. I just bought it from my brother-in-law, the only other owner. He has a history with Porsches and the Porsche family.
Ferry was a personal friend of Gene's and touched this car by authorizing operational vent wing windows to be fabricated and installed on the factory floor in 1974, when Gene took the car to a PCA event at the Nurburgring, then stopped by Stuttgart to see his old friend. Gene had met Dr. Porsche in 1956, when Gene was a US Naval Attache working on a negotiating team talking to the King of Spain about a SAC base in Spain, and had been introduced to the family by an aide to the King, when the aide took Gene to Stuttgart from Madrid to get Gene to buy a '56 Spyder, which he did. in '63 he traded for a 356B, in '69 he traded for this 911E.
A couple of weeks ago I accidentally found out that he had sold it to a scalper. I got in the middle of it and scalped the scalper, with the original intention of turning it, since I depleted most of my life savings to buy it, but then as it is sitting in my garage (all other cars kicked out), the madness took over. Must. Not. Sell. Must. Drive. I'm selling both '64 Falcons. They can be replaced. A one owner 911E will not come around again.
I have spent time in this machine over the years. Gene always lent it to me when I visited. He would throw the key, "Never let the RPM's get below 3,000."
I drove it for the first time today, failed emissions, as expected, but my decision not to sell was instantly justified.
Couple little DIY's to get me started. Fix the passenger seat reclining mechanism, change the motor mounts, spiff up the trunk
I'll have to raise the driver's seat somehow between the seat and the track or the track and the floor.
Motor mounts coming from Pelican. That red stainless steel carrier mount looks nifty. Is it worth it, or too foo foo?
All this need to be cleaned and sealed
The vent wings
Have an appointment with Storz to adjust valves, engine tune up, change all fluids, and generally inspect it for road worthiness, some other items on the list that are not DIY. Slowly but surely...