Oh yeah, where's a good place for parts for this beast. I need stuff. I have a list.

What??!?!?! Is this a tongue-in-cheek thing or are you for real? This is the Pelican forum so naturally go right to the top and hit Porsche, select your year and go from there.

Honestly when I was buying parts for mine I bought them here. Some prices may be high, some may be low, but in the end I bought everything from a gas tank to an engine tin washer here and it all worked out very well. I always tried to buy here first.

And if you want used parts, well, here as well.

You can get all the parts right here! Just go to the top of this page and start clicking.

You're no spring chicken! (neither am I, btw) Drive the living bejesus out of the thing until it bores you to death, which it never will. You can see that Porsche road from your driveway? Go get it! That car has already been flogged hard during it's lifetime. No reason to stop now.

Go for it.

Hopefully someone else in your family will be going through the same dilemma after you're long gone.SmileWavy

Newbie! Oh yeah, Pelican PARTS, you idiot. You can say it.

"There is the question about the title, which is in the original buyers name. Does a break in titling have any effect on value? Instead of one-owner, it would be two-owner, but same family. Mileage is irrelevant, being at 382,674, couple thousand more won't matter"



Not a concern.

MattR

I've done it now: Polo Red Porsche has her own Facebook profile to document every little thing from now on.

I like where this is going.

Nice Falcons too. Build a bigger garage!

Please...not...Facebook...please...do it on here in the Technical section.

Agreed. Remember, newbie, neophyte, lamb in the woods, seeking guidance and wisdom, finding it here, thank you very much.

I'll keep the Porsche family informed but I like doing a public running build sheet, like this https://www.facebook.com/JoeRanchero or a blog like this, my first build, a rescue1964 Ford Falcon Ranchero starting out as a throw away. Ended up as give-away. This blog is worldwide, no limited audience, over 24,000 page views with no effort. I don't care, it's just for me to have something to do. The blogs are more cumbersome than FB.

The FB profiles are for my friends who are gear heads. All my collector cars are regular drivers.

I'll have to spend more time on this forum to get the feel of it. If I don't sell it right away, I'll start a thread of my build sheet in the technical section. How's that?

I believe, with my pea-brain, the consensus thus far is, keep it, drive it, let the kids worry about selling it or not when I'm done. Sounds better and better to me.

I LOVE the way this thread has evolved-from selling the gem of a car to keeping it!

Drive it every chance you get. Life is too short. SmileWavy

First project, get a shop manual. Click above, right? Nope. What about OEM shop manual? The search is on.

Second project, rebuilding seats, the reclining mechanism is frozen on passenger side. The seat back release works on passenger side, does not lock on driver's side.

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Starting the library. I can see a slew of new metric tools in my future. One cannot own too many tools.

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At first we were going to be ships passing in the night, a brief encounter, an enjoyable literary expedition for both, watching the passing of a unique Porsche, but no, you were prophetic, as was my title, unexpectedly, and here I am; ready willing and able to drive the piss, respectfully and with purpose, out of this Red Machine, for as long as I am able.

I expect this forum will help with DIY's, of which there must be many, where certified Porsche mechanics are not really necessary. I will attack the assessment list, one at a time, over time.

First up, detail it back to showroom and keep it that way. There are products for that. Looking for good headliner cleaner. It did not like humid Texas. It will love high and dry Colorado.

Then back to Storz for high altitude adjustments, maybe a couple things on the list that are not DIY, and off we go, into the wild blue yonder.

Buh bye Falcons. I'ld take $40K for the pair. Check 'em out, tell you friends, the FB profiles are 100% public. They are going on Hemmings, separately. Shipping with Road Runner is easy and inexpensive. Forget Reliable, they are too busy with Barrett Jackson and Mecum and the other auction houses.

The Futura
https://www.facebook.com/pearlfalcon2


The Ranchero
https://www.facebook.com/joeranchero1

No FB? The Ranchero has a blog
1964 Ford Falcon Ranchero

Here's the list, let's get this thing right.

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I'm loving this thread. From what to do with the car to now selling off other cars to keep the car. Right on. You don't waste any time.

This truly is a great thread. Love the title too. So many people are going to pass by this one thinking oh just another help the newbie thread. Little do they know.

^^^
Yeah.....but I figured something must be up to get to 5 pages so I checked it out.
Glad I did. Great car, great story and a great owner.
Drive it till you can't.

It gets better. American Collectors Insurance through USAA; full coverage, stated value, zero deductible, $540/yr. I could even add the Falcons and save $800 a year!

If that cheap insurance is not a sign to proceed full steam ahead, I don't know what is. Plus, they got my Exoto 20-car collection, from when I had a job before I was homeless. Now look at me, joining the PCA...

Here's one. Numbered limited edition, out of production. They are all over eBay and some have done well, others, nah...these two have. Anything touched by Shelby does well.

When were stealing the 356 C in '65, we would park on the fence across the LAX runway from the Shelby plant and watch the bodies being carted around back, and the stacks of Mustang and Cobra bodies, dozens of bodies. We would wait for one of the finished ones to come around. One flimsy chainlink fence with three rows barbed and nothing else, dirt.

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Here's another one, numbered limited edition, out of production

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I hope you don't stress too much about the PPI issues list. If anything, that list shows how well this car has been maintained throughout the years. In perspective of a daily driven / nearly 50 yr old Porsche with close to 400k mi, that list is quite small. At least you have a road map of what needs attention to fix yourself. And if you need Storz, use them. I used them over 10 yrs ago to adjust the carbs on my old 912 when I lived in Golden. It's a good shop.

There was that story about a badass old dude in sweden who bought a new V8 mustang (manual) at age 94. This story is even better!

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