Hey JP - et al, I waiting myself with baited breath!
As you may of heard, the whole of the UK has ground to halt because of a little bit of snow and Siberian weather!!
I took this on the way to the office the other morning (nicely timed!!)



The new carpet set has arrived now, and all the rest of the interior is about to go off to the trimmer to get adorned in new black hide!

Also got the headlights converted to HID spec, and have the new red rear lamp clusters and clear fronts!

I'm sure we'll ahve some more piccies soon!
Graham

 

O.k., good excuse. Graham, is that -17 degrees C on the dash there ?? I guess I'll have to stop whining now about it being cold in Seattle ..

 

I got an update from the guys over at 9M - the screen fits!!! Good job really! All the 964 Speedster screen roof and hump mechanism have been trial fitted and the orginal dash top moulding cut and shaped to suit - now gone away to be trimmed in leather!
Now just perfecting the gapping between the hump and shell. The inner surfaces of the car have been prepped ready for sealing and first coat of primer etc, so hopefully we should see a colour change quite soon!
Not the best pictures I'm afraid, taken with Marcs Nokia - I'll be there soon with the Nikon, but the car's takin shape!





Graham

 

G-- Looks good

P.S. They put the dash on the wrong side & it's not a Tiptronic, but if helpful in any way:

Check out Freisinger's 993 Speedster restoration, started November 2009.

 

Hey - Good Spot! I never knew this Speedster building was so infectious!
Graham

 

This may be a dumb question and the answer is probably very carefully, but how the F... do you keep all of the nuts and bolts and everything else straight when you strip a car like this. I can image a bunch of ziplock baggies, or do you start fresh with new bolts. Or do you usually end up with a bunch of stuff you have no idea where it goes.

 

Hey - I hope we don't have too many spares left over! But during the strip down, all the bolts etc from each area were bagged & tagged (LH Door / RH Door / Luggage bay etc) - and then boxed & stored. I'll let you know late next month!
9M / Marc has stripped and rebuilt quite a few cars over time, so could probably enter MasterMind and have 'Porsche Bolt and Fastener Recognition' as his specialist subject!
Graham

 

It's called organization and careful documentation is necessary down to what fastener came out of which opening during disassembly, written and photographed, assures that the same fastener goes in the exact same location it came out of during reassembly. Damaged fasteners are immediately replaced in the "baggie" of fasteners so there's no need to hunt during reassembly. I've worked on a few 356 and SC restoration/repaints.

 

I called in yesterday at 9M and took some more pictures (the photo file is now past 500!) It's progressed some more and will hopefully be in the spray booth next week!

So this weeks pictures










Graham

 

Very impressive. BTW what is the ETA on the job completion?

 

These "ground-up" threads are simply amazing. Great entertainment for the winter. Keep the updates coming!

 

Spring! Which sort of means anytime between mid-Mar and 1st May!
Earlier the better - at least the snow will have cleared by then!
Graham

 

Finally, more pics! It's really coming together now and looking good, Graham. Can't wait to see the next stages....

 

From the previous photos you could see that all but the outer panels of the shell had been partially skuffed with scotchbrite to prepare the surface for priming. Todays update is that the shell has now been etched and primed, so here are the photos of it in the booth.

The next stage will be to seal all the seams (by hand), then put the shell back onto the spit for full access to the underside so we can spray out the underfloor protection.

 

Those are stunning photographs of the body shell with every nook and cranny sealed and surface finished with the materials, asuuming you are using the best materials available. It looks far better than what they probably were off of the "body in white" rack at Porsche. Beautiful work thus far!