1971 Restoration by green96v4

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Been playing some more (borderline Concours obsessive now) stenciled the Swedish wording onto the backing boards today

1-4-2015

Thanks guys, your encouragement means a lot (especially when I have "nothing went right days" - one just the other day in fact, came in from the garage and said to my wife I'd have been further ahead if I'd stayed indoors!)

I'll keep the photos coming, exhaust went on today, so I'll get underneath with the camera!

1-17-2015

So glad you found me! You did an awesome job on the welding. After getting the car back from you I stripped all the paint off back to bare metal, blasted, ground, drilled and removed the minor rust and had my father's shop paint the body in the original Tyrol Green.

Whilst all this was going on we made plans to emigrate to Canada, we moved up to York for a couple of years before that (bought a project house with no garage, so spent two years fixing up the house and building a garage) I said to my wife I didn't ever want to move into a house without a garage again, so when we moved to Canada we found another house WITHOUT a garage!!!!

So now that I'm an expert garage builder (and we bought another fixer-upper here) Also managed to have a couple of kids in there too, so I'm finally getting back into the car (hence the 20 year timeline!)

I'm glad you're still doing the 96's, my work has all but dried up with Porsche Club (I remember you saying you wanted to get into the 356/early 911's but the magazine I was sending you doesn't really have a classified section anymore)

I'll keep posting images on this forum, the guys here are really helpful and encouraging

Take care

2-5-2015

Finally the panels are in paint!!!







if anyone would like a fairly good condition kidney I'm selling one to pay for all this!!!!