1971 Burgundy 911T

[Timo]

I don't think this car has ever been advertised on ebay - not that I'm aware of anyway

It was listed on Ebay a couple of times Andy, I can only presume the sales must have fallen through due to the usual ebay messers.

[hashman]

I cant wait to see what you do with this car Andy.
It's the same as Hazels car was originally, a burgundy 2.2 71 T, but hers has a long way to go to catch up to yours.
Might be interesting to see how far apart the vin numbers are.

Karl

[Lightweight_911]

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Hi Karl - my car's VIN is 911 110 0948 ...

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[Lightweight_911]

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Although I've been spending many hours on the car, there hasn't really been a lot to show - hence the lack of updates to this thread.

I've now got the seat mounting sorted & painted, seats fitted to the frames & both seats now installed.

After removing the driver's floor mats, tunnel carpet & wooden pedal board it was great to find that the original floorpan on this side was in excellent condition too - even the area around the pedal box was totally rust-free :





The throttle pedal was removed, the threaded holes in the floorpan re-tapped & the cleaned pedal refitted with new hardware & plenty of copper grease.


I also took the opportunity to remove the remainder of the hoses that would have connected to the charcoal canister & capped off the ends of the metal tubes at the front of the tunnel.

Both wooden foot boards were in good condition - just a bit of the usual delamination on the driver's one - so, after gluing/clamping both were refitted:







The seat rail support brackets & tunnel grille, etc were cleaned & repainted:





- & finally everything was refitted:







So that's one thing ticked off the list - at some point I might modify the seats to incorporate some headrests (if I can find something suitable) but for the time being I'm happy with them as they are.


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[Mike]

Good stuff Andy, always great to follow what you do to personalise your cars!

[Lightweight_911]

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In addition to working on the car itself I was continually searching for/accumulating some of the items I knew I was going to need - main requirement (as always) was that they needed to be 'cheap' !

So, in no particular order I tracked down :

- a Facet 'red top' electric pump



- after cleaning & removal of the Facet label, it was fitted with a period Bendix sticker ... & then suitably 'aged'



- next, a Malpassi Filter King



- which scrubbed up well:




Another change planned was to replace the original air cleaner assembly with a pair of K&N filters (probably 'Watershields') - so I would need a suitably 'period-looking' catch tank for any oil vapours.

Since original SWB & LWB plastic SWF washer bottles (used by the Factory as catch tanks in various of their competition models) seem to command 'silly' money these days, I was going to have to use something else ...

- so I sourced this rather sad-looking VDO washer bottle :



- which after cleaning:



- & the addition of some hose connections & a red cap




- will fit the bill nicely !

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[hashman]

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Hi Karl - my car's VIN is 911 110 0948 ...

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Hi Andy the cars are 1352 apart
not as close as I had hoped.
Hazels ends 2300.

Karl

[yoda]

Your attention to detail is brilliant as always Andy. I’m waiting for some steering wheel news?

[Bootsy]

[Lightweight_911]

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How on earth did you know ? !!



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[Lightweight_911]

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Ok - time for a brief update ...

- just to re-iterate, my current plans for the car are just to generally clean/tidy it up & add a few personal touches along the way - all without spending too much money !

As mentioned earlier, the interior was looking very 'tired' so, after replacing the front seats & giving the carpets a good clean, I started on the gauges. The worst looking was the fuel/oil level gauge:



- so it was removed, dismantled, cleaned & the bezels repainted:



After re-assembling it was refitted - looking much better !




Next on the list was the clock ... I've never understood why manufacturers bothered to fit one when virtually every driver wore a watch - so the clock would be removed & the offending hole in the dash blanked off.

- clock duly removed:



- & a blank 85mm disc cut out from a piece of black textured ABS ... in fact I cut 2 discs - one from 3mm thick sheet & another from 4mm:



After trying both I opted for the thinner disc so glued it to a short length of 80mm plastic pipe & test-fitted it:



- that'll do nicely !


A few more items were removed/cleaned/repainted & refitted:



- it's surprising what a difference a lick of paint makes:




I'd been keeping an eye out for a suitable 'period' solid steering wheel hub &, with a bit of perseverance, managed to find one in the US for less than the price of a modern 'concertina' hub so, along with a suitable 'large-crest' Porsche Momo horn button, I used it to mount a 370mm leather wheel:








Next on the 'to do' list were the interior door panels ...

I've never liked the original 911 door pockets - to me they look too 'fussy' & it doesn't seem to take very long for them to deteriorate & look tatty.

The simplest solution is to mimic what the Factory used for their production-based competition cars - & RS LWT door card 'kits' are available from numerous sources but I wasn't going to go that route (too expensive).

I've done this on several of my cars in the past so sourced some Fiat 500 handles:



- & some suitable leather strap via ebay:





- & my 'twist' on the conversion is to use (yet again) some black textured ABS for the door cards themselves:



Passenger side roughly cut to shape:




Next installment coming soon ...

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[Bootsy]

Excellent stuff

[sladey]

Nice stuff Andy - love watching your personal touches.

That sounds all kinds of wrong…

[IanM]

I've never liked the original 911 door pockets -

Me neither.

Nice steering wheel. Is it a Prototipo? Has it been recovered?

[bjmullan]

Great work Andy, how did you get the dials out? I thought that on earlier cars there is a bracket behind the dash that need to be removed, and that it's a pain to get to.