My name is Cris.
I have worked in the motor-trade for 15 years at my family business which is a body-shop.
We work solely within the Porsche marque and as such have built up quite a customer base from trade and private customers due to a real passion for the Porsche marque in my case particularly the 911 RS light-weight.
I don't mind admitting I have got it real bad... the RS is the car I wanted since my school days and it was already 20 years old then!!
So I would like to share my experience re-building my 911. Its been several years in the making and is now around 80% done, this should be the final year of the build and I may even get to drive the car at some point soon...
Sorry to disappoint, but the rocketing value of Lightweights meant that I had to start with its budget little brother and build my car rather than buy one outright.
We have now entered the fun stage of putting it all back together.
Getting to this point has taken far longer than anticipated and I have come close to selling the car on a few occasions but now the target is firmly in the cross-hairs I have found a new drive to get it done.
Right here's the car when we got to the workshop,
It looks very different now and has undergone countless hours of prep and to get it to the level that I want.
First it was stripped of all components.
Then the shell was taken back to bare metal to see what I had actually bought.
It was actually very good! Not that much of a surprise as I went through every part of the car, crawling about underneath it in the rain...
This car had been very well cared for and showed signs of a rebuilt Engine and box and it also had complete new Stainless exhaust, quickshift
and had been retrimmed generally pampered!
All the interior was stored and the Engine and gearbox sold as it was always going to have either a modified 3.2 carrera engine or a 3.6 powerplant if finances allowed the full on build I had in mind.
I would love to show you the first stages of stripping the car down and removing the paint and sealer however to put it bluntly some little oick stole my camera a while back and I lost about 100 prep images.
(btw I stopped counting the hrs at 400 lol)
I have the latter half of the build across about 50 pics,
finding things like the build number still on the dash and doors made me quite a happy nerd
After getting through lots of oxy-acetyl, wire brushes and dual-action sander D/A disks I had a bare metal shell which did not actualy need much to make a very nice car, this would of course been tooooo easy.
so a silly plan was hatched alongside a sensible one with way-points with regard to financing the build.
1. A very faithful RS recreation with 3.2 power.
2. Bonkers wide body RSR recreation with 3.6 power.
At some point I would have to choose which but lots of jobs were common to both such as strenghtening the shell and as a matter of course for a 26 year old car some things would have to be checked as It's meant to be a keeper.
this is what greets me when I open the doors at work....
So i've given the game away early... I'll add more of the build later its all uploading now...
leaving this up as its still pretty and i'll edit above! I have about 1200 images of Porsche's we have worked on, thats the wrong pic 
I'm much better with tools than pic links lol