Orange T light resto / sports purpose
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 5:06 pm
As the title suggests I bought an orange 1970 911T from the states in May this year. I had seen many other cars in the states come to the UK that were in fairly average condition so rather than try and buy a freshly landed car I figured it would be easier to find one myself. After a few weeks of looking I found an honest car in Washington. I didn’t have time to go and see it but I was satisfied with a fair and honest description of the car with loads of photos. I took the plunge and wasn’t disappointed when the car arrived via Kingstown shipping. Luckily I seemed to dodge any bureaucracy that afflicted Keith and my car was quickly registered. I’ve only driven it once but I have managed to get on with a lot of the trivia details while I wait for the car to go to Oak Tree to be fettled. It’s going to have the carbs rebuilt before going to Crispin so should come back running like a new car!
The previous owner had painted the car Gulf Orange (it’s original signal orange) about 10 years ago and it still looks good if not concourse. Unfortunately somebody dented the front bumper during shipping so it’s going in to have that fixed next month. Kingstown were very good about that and I can’t rate them highly enough. The car had stood for a few years and needs going through to get it back to fine fettle. The engine isn’t original but is a 71 T on Weber’s which pulls very with no smoke even though they clearly need rebuilding. The gearbox however is pretty epic with a period short shift on the original 901 box, a quaife LSD and a relatively recent rebuild. So far I’ve stripped and cleaned most of the interior, doors front trunk and replaced a ton of seals. I will list all the jobs when I get a chance but most things had siezed and just needed stripping cleaning and reassembly (pedal box, heater blower, door locks, dashboard and switches, seat mechanisms and the hand throttle to name but a few) with the bigger jobs yet to come. The brakes and suspension have all new components but have been sitting for at least 5 years so it will probably mean rebuilt calipers and a new MC and lots of new bushes. The engine is just going to be serviced, set up and driven for a bit until I decide where i want to go with it. New SSIs, K&N air filters, rebuilt carbs and a proper fuel pump, filter arrangement.
I posted a thread over 13 years ago on here expressing a desire to build a Waldegard ST replica/ interpretation ! This might get be the car to finally do it with but I’m still reluctant to cut up a rust free car albeit one that’s been repainted and has had an engine swap. Here are some initial photos below and I will update it when I get home with some of the work done so far.
Cheers
Rich
The previous owner had painted the car Gulf Orange (it’s original signal orange) about 10 years ago and it still looks good if not concourse. Unfortunately somebody dented the front bumper during shipping so it’s going in to have that fixed next month. Kingstown were very good about that and I can’t rate them highly enough. The car had stood for a few years and needs going through to get it back to fine fettle. The engine isn’t original but is a 71 T on Weber’s which pulls very with no smoke even though they clearly need rebuilding. The gearbox however is pretty epic with a period short shift on the original 901 box, a quaife LSD and a relatively recent rebuild. So far I’ve stripped and cleaned most of the interior, doors front trunk and replaced a ton of seals. I will list all the jobs when I get a chance but most things had siezed and just needed stripping cleaning and reassembly (pedal box, heater blower, door locks, dashboard and switches, seat mechanisms and the hand throttle to name but a few) with the bigger jobs yet to come. The brakes and suspension have all new components but have been sitting for at least 5 years so it will probably mean rebuilt calipers and a new MC and lots of new bushes. The engine is just going to be serviced, set up and driven for a bit until I decide where i want to go with it. New SSIs, K&N air filters, rebuilt carbs and a proper fuel pump, filter arrangement.
I posted a thread over 13 years ago on here expressing a desire to build a Waldegard ST replica/ interpretation ! This might get be the car to finally do it with but I’m still reluctant to cut up a rust free car albeit one that’s been repainted and has had an engine swap. Here are some initial photos below and I will update it when I get home with some of the work done so far.
Cheers
Rich
....a 911 you can actually drive! 
