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Hello! new to this forum, i am a member of the mustang forum, and have a keen eye for a early 911 project.
many years of making the mistake of impulse buying are starting to sink in, i think!
so i will be reading your posts with great interest to try to avoid the inevitable!
i have less than 10k to spend right now ( for the car only, not mods! ) and it needs to be my everyday car, so mechanically sound!
Body wise i would love to build something like this, ( i will be doing it gradually so my ultimate budget is, well who know! )

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so i can live with body repairs!!

my major question is, would i be better trying to find a wide body or for my price range should i look for a standard body and buy the arches etc?

many thanks and look forward to many hours of reading!! hopefully i will be able to add my bit to the forum in due course!

Allan
 
Welcome.

If you end up with a car that looks like the one in the picture there will be a lot of very jealous people on here! Looks awesome! Good luck with the search.
 
including myself!! its a project, and i do realise that the 10k starting point is not going to get me there, but i hope it can get me a good starting point!

Thanks

Al
 
That is one mean looking car!! I love the wide body look, which is why I bought a 964 Turbo.

With you budget, I presume you'll be embarking on a backdate project rather than a pre-73 car as your base? You could start with a 3.2 Carrera or 964, if you'd like it a bit more modern - a 3.2 will be easier to backdate though and you could go for original Fuchs wheels.

Buy a WB or NB? I couldn't really say, I guess you'll have to decide when you find a potential donor/starting point...
 
Welcome. :thumb: My next project is to paint the garage floor so nowhere near as exciting. :puh:
 
RichiRich said:
That is one mean looking car!! I love the wide body look, which is why I bought a 964 Turbo.

With you budget, I presume you'll be embarking on a backdate project rather than a pre-73 car as your base? You could start with a 3.2 Carrera or 964, if you'd like it a bit more modern - a 3.2 will be easier to backdate though and you could go for original Fuchs wheels.

Buy a WB or NB? I couldn't really say, I guess you'll have to decide when you find a potential donor/starting point...
Click to expand...

Thats a thought, yes a back date project realistically, i have been told that the 3.2 is the engine to get. keep getting told i need to spend 12k+ to get anything worthwhile, im sure this is the case, but i have seen quite a lot for less, rust i guess is the.

Thanks for the links, really interesting!! l
 
starting out

Hi Al, i've responded to your PM but for the benefit of others and having just taken on this exact sort of project my advice would be to not get hung up on finding a cheap car. While cheap is good from an initial outlay perspective, a good 3.2 would cost you around £12k - a £multi '000 difference between a slightly rough car and a good one can be lost in a single trip to a specialist - gearbox rebuild etc etc. Having said that, at least if you buy it right to start with, any recon work you undertake means you know the car is good once its done and specialists will guarantee their work / parts.

Outwardly a backdate project can seem relatively inexpensive - a few hundred for body panels here and the odd extravagant slippy diff there but trust me, by the time you've stripped it down the list of things you 'really ought to do while your there' soon adds a small fortune to the build, not to mention hours if not days/weeks once you get third parties involved.
I'd suggest it would be difficult to do the conversion piecemeal if the car is your daily transport - you just cant strip and fit new panels over the weekend and then drive it to work on monday.

Dont be put off though, i've had so much fun doing the build to date i'd happily start another this autumn and another next year....whether my credit card[s!] would stand the pressure is another matter altogether though!

The car in your pic i think is nicknamed Black Beauty and belongs to one Jack Olsen - I've spoken to him a few times about his car as its played a major part in inspiring my build.
 
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