Rocket Rob

Laker - Great looking car! My cab is the same color combo and wheels.

Laker

Thanks, I've always loved this color combo. Iconic Porsche. (in my mind anyway) Not too hard to find in cabs. I just give the kid a microfiber cloth and let her have at it.


Thanks, she's getting a Volvo wagon if she's lucky! Car does sit nice and clears my driveway when approached from an angle.

Thanks, I was lucky to find Sabine with such low miles and always garaged. I've seen 993 cabrio roofs, and will go this route when the time comes.
The house is actually in a public park. It was 'only' the carriage house (below) of a 47 acre estate and happens to be on my exercise driving route. The house has an 1920s gas pump overgrown with vines. Lots of wide open space and twisty hills. The right car or wheels will pop up at random. Just need to keep watching and have funds ready, to pull the trigger.


Sabine and I were embarrassed about SUV ride height and she was a little camera shy. This wheel refinisher guy shows up in a truck which has a compressor and electric generator drop out of each side of the truck. He re-surfaces my wheels in my driveway and hands me a cup of sparkly paint and says, 'this gray would look cooler I think', so we go for it. Wheels were just painted and clear coated. Looks good from 2 feet.

from the engine number, I appear to be short of the head gasket cutover by 179 engines

"engines that are susceptible to a cylinder head to cylinder leaking problem. The early cars were those built up to 62 M 06836, M64.01 for the manual transmission cars and 62 M 52757, M64.02 for the Tiptronic cars."

Bruce Anderson's Porsche 911 Performance Handbook.

thanks !
safety first.... plus the red matches! Would dread any type of fire. Here are the details

Laker

The metal bar goes behind the seats along the path indicated in light blue, raised about 1 1/2 inch off the bottom carpet. At two points, almost in the middle of each rear seat, there is an extra tab welded to the bar that screws to the floor on the bottom and has an eyelet for a LATCH hook at the top. These holes are already existing in the cab floor behind the rear seats, underneath the carpet.

At either end of the rear seats, the bar has a bracket welded 90 degrees at each end and this bracket is bolted permanently to the seats, with the rear seats in the up position (last picture) providing 4 total mounting points to the car.

911Jetta

^^^^^^^^^
Great work! Good to see the little ones can enjoy the Porsche too.

ducnine

Nice Ride...Congrats

90_C2_Cab

Very cool idea. I may fab something up like this for mine.

Porsche964FP

Hi Laker,

Great write up - car looks great!

Quick question on your front number plate you have round 'badges' - what are these? I've seen them on a quite a few German ones...

Cheers,

Laker

Thanks Frank,
It's for some sort of annual registration token or road tax. If there is any residual value / time left in them when the car is taken off the road the owner will pull the badge, which explains why one is missing on mine.
Maybe one of the Germans on the board can clarify

Porsche964FP

Thanks!

vasculardoc

Laker, I would love the specs on this. I have always hated the compromise I have had to put up with. I do have the problem that at some stage in the past the rear seats have been taken out and I need to source a new set, but once I have a 4 point solution would be amazing. They look the "dogs bollocks" !

Laker

Doc-
I've asked my mechanic for the bar specs. Hopefully he saved them as I don't want to rip it out to measure. Will let you know either way.

edit: Wrench's reply:

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Unfortunately I didn't keep any of my notes from building the child seat bar. It was really more on the fly than exacting measurements. I made the side bars first bolted them in measured the distance between for the cross bar, marked and welded that section together, made center anchors reinstalled bar, marked, removed, welded, painted, done. Pretty simple really, just time consuming. Hope this helps our fellow P car nuts. Talk with you soon.
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STUARTQ

Hi Laker,

I was just wondering how your 5 (probably 6 or 7) year old gets on with the 4 point harness. It looks like an adult harness.

We make a child's version of this harness if it's of any interest. suitable from about 4 to 12 years of age.

I See have had a bar fabricated to provide the upper support, that's a neat idea.

The issue with the Cab version of all the 911's is how the the roof folds down behind the back seats. This then means you cannot use the rear shelf to anchor the top mounts of the harness.

If there is anyone who is looking for a harness solution for their 911 cab (3.2, 964, 993) and they are UK (especially London area) and is happy to be part of an experiment to find the best solutions, please let me know and we will look at the options.

This is a link to our website (in need of serious updating). It will give you an idea of where I come from. www.Quickfitsbs.com
There is not a great deal of info on the child restraints on the website but this is an area we have worked in for 50 odd years.
In the past we have found many solutions to child restraint solutions for many types of cars, it's not so easy these days with the bigger child seat designs and solutions found are now out of production, but we would be happy to look at these cars again to find solutions to the problem.