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I'm the guy who took the pictures, We spent a few hours doing this, and it was so much fun!
The guys at the workshop are now working on the body. The red paint has been removed, and we can now see the original green olive.
The workshop is specialized in classic Porsche restorations. They rebuild the cars using the same techniques that they had back in the past. They are actually restoring 5 928 (first gen), so they absolutely knew what they were doing when they started the project.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't S/N 55 be the 45th car?
Isn't "Number One" actually S/N 11?
Saw this on FB this morning (?).
My first smart alec comment was something along the lines of "That's what you get when you teach your wife how to use an impact wrench... And then REALLY **** her off."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't S/N 55 be the 45th car?
Isn't "Number One" actually S/N 11?
Saw this on FB this morning (?).
My first smart alec comment was something along the lines of "That's what you get when you teach your wife how to use an impact wrench... And then REALLY **** her off."
Actually they started jumbling up VINs and production numbers very early on. The theory I am embracing (for now) is that production numbers were assigned first when a build "started" then were assigned VINS later in the process, and the timing of a VIN assignment could occur at random times during the build. This car is actually production number 55 AND VIN 9288100055, which is an unusual circumstance after the first 10 cars or so. A few of us have been discussing this offline for months and I'm hoping we can makes some kind of cohesive presentation about the data soon.
9288100055 happens also to be production number 1280055, it's actually unusual that the production # lines up with the VIN. (This happened only 5 times in the first 100 cars' production)
If the production number is stamped on the body, it should be on the body inside of the rear hatch. As described on the 928Classics site where you got this picture.
Original color is P2- Olive green, and it has four listed option codes:
351 - 1978-80 Cassette Radio Porsche CR radio (ROW version) Blaupunkt 7 636 950 070
461- Electric antenna, 4 speakers
568 - Tinted windshield and side glass - Sekurit Parsol (bronze) tint
573 - Air conditioner, manual
Do you happen to know where the car was originally sold (perhaps stamped in the warranty book if it's still with the car?)
The car was originally sold in Germany and then imported to Spain (Madrid) and registered the 3rd of October 1980. Any idea of how I can know the production date?
Btw, I found the number on the back of the car! I m surprise it was not directly on the body, but on a "changeable" part.
The car was originally sold in Germany and then imported to Spain (Madrid) and registered the 3rd of October 1980. Any idea of how I can know the production date?
Btw, I found the number on the back of the car! I m surprise it was not directly on the body, but on a "changeable" part.
Wow they went crazy with the red paint I have 928810034 with a repaint like this FROM red to two other colors over the years....it's not just the body mess...it's the hundreds (thousands?) of ancillary parts polluted with overspray mess. The wiring is the most tedious to clean up.
FWIW on the PU bumpers I would suggest that you use a walnut media blaster to remove the finish,
then start from scratch with the flexible primer then topcoats.
NOTE After going through this refinish event a few times only to see that old finishes show through to the new top coats after the parts see hot sunshine,
its the only way to get a perfect refinish.
NOTE any cracks in the primer will show through to the new finish no matter what you do.
The only way to get rid of them is to start with a fresh uniform surface thats free of original coatings
All of the feathered edges will eventually come through to the new coatings BTDT
Not so many Olive274 P928 have been made in 1977, and certainly not in the inhouse Porsche manual gearbox version (produced first 2 years only)
I suspect the 928 in this thread really could be my former 928.
Mine was delivered originally in 1977 in Germany, was eventually sold on to mr Hoittink in Netherlands, near German border. (Picture in this tread posted not by me, with the flowers on the hood)
I (in Netherlands) bought the car from that Dutch owner in somewhere arround 2004/5.
I Sold it in 2007/8 to a German collector/tradesman doing international classic car business in the German city Kleve.
He vallued the car for being in original colour still.
even the first aid kit still was in the vacuum, that original it was, except for the Koni rear shocks, and Borla Stainless steel exhaust..
I know he sold it for over twice the money a year or so later..
Hard to believe someone would after that spray the car in Red while Olive had become very, very rare...
But that is what seemed to have happened...if this is that early rare car.
07-14-2023, 07:24 AM
We spent a few hours doing this, and it was so much fun! 
I have 928810034 with a repaint like this FROM red to two other colors over the years....it's not just the body mess...it's the hundreds (thousands?) of ancillary parts polluted with overspray mess. The wiring is the most tedious to clean up.
