race911

Maybe some saw it over on the 964 Forum. Basically a guy from England bought a '68 911L out of Greece cheap (?), then drove it home with a stop along the way to run a day around Nurburgring.

Too bad the prevailing attitude today is that this would be "risky" even in a '14 991. Seemed to be common with the 356 crowd, from the stories I've heard over the decades.

e3photo

Great video Ken.....I'd do it.



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boman993

Truly awesome! I need to do something similar one day! A bag of tools, new to me Porsche beater and thousands of miles away from home.

Mike Pezely

Thanks for the entertainment Ken.....that guy is certainly adventures.

Rinty

Wonderful. Thanks for posting. This video has the flavour of a ride report on ADVrider.

nr1416

enjoyed that, thanks for sharing

race911

Funny thing I take away from this is that an old carb'd 911 kinda just runs and runs and runs. Not well maybe, but runs. What I remember about POS customer cars back in the '80s when a car like this was newer (relative to its production) than the 993s now.

As much as we'd like to think everyone maintains a Porsche to the highest standards, for me with what was definitely a second tier shop (I WAS 22 when I opened shop #1.......), I'd get my share of the budget clientele. And I felt sorry a lot of the time. And if the customer was a single woman. Basically I learned about Pro Bono before I departed to go to law school.

And some of my best memories were keeping these 911 and 356s going--both in shop and roadside repair on PCA trips.

OverBoosted28

Great story/vid. Loved the curbside carb rebuild. And to think I was whining about replacing blow off valve & ISV valves hoses at the track.
Thanks for the vid.

jstyer

Awesome video, he's doing it right! Reminds me when I replaced two front wheel bearings on a U-Hual during an across TX move... in an Oreilly's parking lot haha.

That's a trip he'll remember forever. So cool.

jhg41977

I see no issue doing this. When I was looking for a 993, I hoped to find one as far away as possible just so I had an excuse to drive it!

race911

A ~45 year old, near POS, 2.0 SWB era 911 ain't no 993. As I said above, even when most of them were 20 years old probably 80% were in the POS category.

Depending on the updates along the decades you've got issues with: 1. the carbs (and that's 40IDAs.....God help you if you have Zeniths.....Satan would be living in the car if it still had Solex's), 2. 6 bolt exhaust valve covers and their oil leaks directly onto the heat exchangers, 3. chain tensioners, 4. fuel pumps (again, Satan as a co-pilot if it somehow had the mechanical one still installed), 5. ignition--including any/all of points, necessary aftermarket CDI, spark plugs, distributor shaft bearing wear (taking you back to the points and timing), 6. dead heat exchangers leading to CO in the cabin.

I'm thankful my long drive back home when I got that first one was 6 miles.

jhg41977

Are the older cars that unreliable??

race911

One word answer is "no." But you can't go down to the 1968 911 store and pick up a new one. (Yeah, given the current market there ARE "as new" first generation 911s floating around. But would you rather have a 991 GT3 or Turbo S?)

So that leaves us the few survivors. Nearly all of the cars were barely worth fixing over the decades, thus they rusted out or were hacked into facsimiles of later models. I did so with my own, going from a hack 2.0 S to "proper" 2.0 S to wannabe IROC/RSR with a hack 2.7RS engine.

Condition is everything, and at 20 years old I'd say the "8/10" SWB 911 I worked on a quarter century ago would get the "Run, Forrest, Run" GIF posted on similar in today's 20 year old 993 For Sale thread

Now if you have one of those survivors, corrosion free with near 100% mechancials, I'd say you can drive it pretty much anywhere. Ultimate problem is that a car like that is now in 993 Turbo price territory.