Harryblue
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I've posted about it before, but I have some pictures now so I thought I'd start documenting my journey with it.
As posted before, I wanted a Guards Red 930 since 1989, I had a poster of one on my wall and it was a schoolboy dream that I thought would be forever unattainable.
The poster was a white one but I wanted Guards Red. Over the years I kept having a tentative look at them, I've had 911s but not an older one like the 930, and earlier this year I decided it was probably now or never.
Over the months I was looking there were a few for sale but only two that looked to be worth buying if I wanted a good one. I wanted one with the G50 box, so it had to be a 1989. I have a mate that is a Porsche guy and he helped me pick the right one, even though he was pretty insistent that I should be buying a 993 Turbo instead. The one I bought had been owned by a guy for 33yrs, then a couple of short term owners including a YouTube guy who owned it for about a year each, and then me. I think the previous two guys had owned it as a bucket list car with no intentions of long term ownership, so neither had done anything apart from basic servicing.
It was pretty much all original, but that meant it needed TLC to really future proof it, and on the good side like my mate said, at least we could see no one had messed about with it, most of it was original factory parts.
I paid fairly high end money for the one I wanted, it was a fully MOT'd decent original car, but they're all old and they all need work, so I immediately put it into my mates place to make it actually mint, instead of someone else's version of mint. I should get it back before Christmas and I'll try and make it to a NW event if there is one over the Christmas break whilst I'm in the UK.
Here it is sat outside MLR Porsche in SOT, Marc Clowes (ex-Ninemeister founder) is the guy doing the work.
The instructions from me were "Imagine it's your own car that you're going to keep forever, and do whatever it needs", so I'm looking at a fairly hefty bill because aside from all hoses and lines (that are five grand plus just for the parts) it's having KW suspension, a full dry-ice clean, engine metalwork painted and detailed, fully set up, etc, etc.
I got a walk around video a couple of weeks later pointing out a lot of the things needed to make it mint, for example the sills are ok, it passed an MOT but they're not great, so it's having two new sills, each side is a grand just for the panel, then they need to be painted.
The next picture I got was the engine out...
And then more recently some before and after shots of the dry ice cleaning, it had a lot of road muck on it underneath and it still doesn't look perfect because they're obviously not new parts, but it looks better.
It has the usual corrosion around the bottom of the windscreen, so that needs attention and general stuff like that, plus all the new hoses, lines and parts that mean it's hopefully as reliable as it can be.
It's having a proper original 1980s Gemballa rear spoiler fitted that has been on a shelf for a long time, but other than that (and the KW suspension) it will be stock.
As I said, it's a dream come true and I want it to be perfect, so I asked about a bare metal respray and a full engine teardown but the lads said it really doesn't need it, so no point throwing money away for nothing.
I'll keep updating a bit like a blog and hopefully I'll get to collect it before Christmas all finished, painted and looking lovely, then I can hopefully find a couple of dry days where I can practice not going through hedgerows backwards.
As posted before, I wanted a Guards Red 930 since 1989, I had a poster of one on my wall and it was a schoolboy dream that I thought would be forever unattainable.
The poster was a white one but I wanted Guards Red. Over the years I kept having a tentative look at them, I've had 911s but not an older one like the 930, and earlier this year I decided it was probably now or never.
Over the months I was looking there were a few for sale but only two that looked to be worth buying if I wanted a good one. I wanted one with the G50 box, so it had to be a 1989. I have a mate that is a Porsche guy and he helped me pick the right one, even though he was pretty insistent that I should be buying a 993 Turbo instead. The one I bought had been owned by a guy for 33yrs, then a couple of short term owners including a YouTube guy who owned it for about a year each, and then me. I think the previous two guys had owned it as a bucket list car with no intentions of long term ownership, so neither had done anything apart from basic servicing.
It was pretty much all original, but that meant it needed TLC to really future proof it, and on the good side like my mate said, at least we could see no one had messed about with it, most of it was original factory parts.
I paid fairly high end money for the one I wanted, it was a fully MOT'd decent original car, but they're all old and they all need work, so I immediately put it into my mates place to make it actually mint, instead of someone else's version of mint. I should get it back before Christmas and I'll try and make it to a NW event if there is one over the Christmas break whilst I'm in the UK.
Here it is sat outside MLR Porsche in SOT, Marc Clowes (ex-Ninemeister founder) is the guy doing the work.
The instructions from me were "Imagine it's your own car that you're going to keep forever, and do whatever it needs", so I'm looking at a fairly hefty bill because aside from all hoses and lines (that are five grand plus just for the parts) it's having KW suspension, a full dry-ice clean, engine metalwork painted and detailed, fully set up, etc, etc.
I got a walk around video a couple of weeks later pointing out a lot of the things needed to make it mint, for example the sills are ok, it passed an MOT but they're not great, so it's having two new sills, each side is a grand just for the panel, then they need to be painted.
The next picture I got was the engine out...
And then more recently some before and after shots of the dry ice cleaning, it had a lot of road muck on it underneath and it still doesn't look perfect because they're obviously not new parts, but it looks better.
It has the usual corrosion around the bottom of the windscreen, so that needs attention and general stuff like that, plus all the new hoses, lines and parts that mean it's hopefully as reliable as it can be.
It's having a proper original 1980s Gemballa rear spoiler fitted that has been on a shelf for a long time, but other than that (and the KW suspension) it will be stock.
As I said, it's a dream come true and I want it to be perfect, so I asked about a bare metal respray and a full engine teardown but the lads said it really doesn't need it, so no point throwing money away for nothing.
I'll keep updating a bit like a blog and hopefully I'll get to collect it before Christmas all finished, painted and looking lovely, then I can hopefully find a couple of dry days where I can practice not going through hedgerows backwards.
