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My Early 911 Project

March 13, 2010

I’ve had a longhood for a while now and have been to and fro on selling it or keeping it. My business plans for the next two years leave almost no project time, so I’m getting close to selling and letting someone else have the fun of building it up. A friend of mine is [...]

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Boxing up my 911T

September 20, 2009

I collected my ‘new’ Porsche 911T this weekend. Worked out quite well as the seller (good friend and superhero, Mr Bosman) was coming over for the Goodwood Revival, and offered to trailer it across on the ferry for me. Here was a kindness I could not refuse. We met early today and I borrowed Bos’s [...]

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944: Swamp Monster no more

September 15, 2009

Having diagnosed the source of the torrential cabin leaks on my 1983 944 Lux (rotten battery tray), it was time to extract the damaged interior and get the car dry. I started by taking out the front seats. These are proper Recaro sports seats, so I was hoping to save them. No chance – they [...]

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My 944 gets moving

September 12, 2009

As the 944 Turbo is sold, I was keen to move my other 944 project along; get it MOTed and then either start using it or get shot of it. It has to be MOTed to get the number plate off, so that’s a no choice thing. Anyway, zoomed over to Dom Delaney’s Porsche place [...]

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Little Landcruiser gets some TLC

July 25, 2009

Hard to believe the little Landcruser (LJ70) has been off the road since June 2006. Took me a few months (28 is a few on my calendar) to convince best mate Rob at Raceresto.com to make me some new sills for it and weld up the arches (repair panels are not available for these), and [...]

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Orange 911 update

July 22, 2009

I’ve had some straight-ahead play in my steering for a while. I checked the wheel bearings and tightened them a bit, then checked the balljoints and they were OK. Still had the play – not bad but was getting worse over time.

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