Ultimate Build Thread (Porsche Factory Stuttgart Style)

[n1zm0]

http://jalopnik.com/5679708/porsche-restoration-of-73-911-becomes-ultimate-build-thread


Porsche's factory restoration unit bought a gutted 1973 911 T Coupe off eBay, with plans to rebuild the vehicle over the next year. How obsessively precise could they be? They're employing the factory workers who assembled it 37 years ago.

A project of the Porsche Club of America, the finished car will be raffled off then paraded in August 2011. Before that can happen, Porsche's experts have to renovate what appears to be a discarded, partially wrecked race car with birds nesting in the undercarriage.

Porsche Restoration Of '73 911 Becomes Ultimate Build Thread After hauling the Porsche to Stuttgart, the Porsche Classic restoration unit set about dismantling, cleaning and cataloging every bit of their find. Several body parts were thrown off due to inauthenticity; the rear spoiler was homemade, and the front hood from a different 911. The original gearbox was dismantled, with every part inspected and the magnesium housing given a cleaning by hand with a brass-bristled toothbrush, then reassembled and calibrated using the original factory tools that built it.

craziness, down to the era respective calibrated tools
They have a couple others they've done and iirc its a service they offer for complete restoration, but this one done by some of the guys who worked the assy line back in 1973? pretty crazy stuff.

http://imgur.com/9X0Iq.jpg

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http://imgur.com/lifVi.jpg

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follow the build here:

http://www.porsche.com/international/accessoriesandservice/classic/garage/reference/911factoryrestoration/ , i'd love to see nissan buy some 240z chassis from north america and redo them to factory specs for resale.

[J.M.]

wow sick:thumbsup:

[JordanLotoski]

awwwwwwww my eyesssss (panamera left corner)

Awesome...Cant wait to see the finished product

[cort@urbanX]

craziness, down to the era respective calibrated tools
They have a couple others they've done and iirc its a service they offer for complete restoration, but this one done by some of the guys who worked the assy line back in 1973? pretty crazy stuff.


Craziness indeed! Kinda sketchy letting a bunch of senile old assembly line workers do this resto, they gotta be 70+ by now. I just have this image of a bunch of old gramps with canes and walkers trying to remember how this thing went together in the first place. In all honesty tho it's actually pretty cool, can't wait to see the completed resto.

[98type_r]

simply awesome

[chrenan]

Will be buying a ticket for this raffle for sure.

[YamaLube]

[i] i'd love to see nissan buy some 240z chassis from north america and redo them to factory specs for resale. [/B]


They did in 1998 and sold them at dealers for 24 grand US.