Lovely little car.....
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Hi 575, I am not Paul Stephens! I am
a nobody - just a regular punter with an old 968!
Love your car and the colour and the history file you already have wouldn’t put me off buying it all - not that you are a seller - I wish I had that kind of budget! Are you taking it to any events at all? Goodwood?
a nobody - just a regular punter with an old 968!
Love your car and the colour and the history file you already have wouldn’t put me off buying it all - not that you are a seller - I wish I had that kind of budget! Are you taking it to any events at all? Goodwood?
Well, it's Saturday morning and I have had a quick look on this forum to see how the debate is progressing.
I simply cannot understand what the owner of WMR is trying to achieve. When I had the car it was a very high mileage, well used, tired 911. It had had a total respray and it leaked like a sieve. It also had beautiful, period, Wolfrace wheels!
When he says that he has reunited the missing engine with the car how much of that engine is actually original? We are talking about a car approaching 50 years old, everything on the car, or in the engine is either ancient or has been replaced.
The stack of paperwork relating to the car shows that it has had a considerable amount of work done. If it was totally original with no extra work ever being carried out it would just have service stamps in the book and the occasional receipt for tyres, exhausts, brakes etc.
As I pointed out before, whatever the state of the car now, you cannot change history and this period back in the 1970s is part of its history.
It's as simple as that.
I simply cannot understand what the owner of WMR is trying to achieve. When I had the car it was a very high mileage, well used, tired 911. It had had a total respray and it leaked like a sieve. It also had beautiful, period, Wolfrace wheels!
When he says that he has reunited the missing engine with the car how much of that engine is actually original? We are talking about a car approaching 50 years old, everything on the car, or in the engine is either ancient or has been replaced.
The stack of paperwork relating to the car shows that it has had a considerable amount of work done. If it was totally original with no extra work ever being carried out it would just have service stamps in the book and the occasional receipt for tyres, exhausts, brakes etc.
As I pointed out before, whatever the state of the car now, you cannot change history and this period back in the 1970s is part of its history.
It's as simple as that.
[quote=Rustyrenault]Well, it's Saturday morning and I have had a quick look on this forum to see how the debate is progressing.
I simply cannot understand what the owner of WMR is trying to achieve. When I had the car it was a very high mileage, well used, tired 911. It had had a total respray and it leaked like a sieve. It also had beautiful, period, Wolfrace wheels!
When he says that he has reunited the missing engine with the car how much of that engine is actually original? We are talking about a car approaching 50 years old, everything on the car, or in the engine is either ancient or has been replaced.
The stack of paperwork relating to the car shows that it has had a considerable amount of work done. If it was totally original with no extra work ever being carried out it would just have service stamps in the book and the occasional receipt for tyres, exhausts, brakes etc.
As I pointed out before, whatever the state of the car now, you cannot change history and this period back in the 1970s is part of its history.
It's as simple ase]
What I don't understand Rustyrenault is your constent bashing about this car. Bitterness is very noticeable in your posts if I can say so. You didn't realised at the time you owned an S as I completely understand you didn't really knew much about chassis and engine numbers at the time and maybe you didn't really care. But in the car collector world, chassis matching engine numbers are very important despite as you said many parts being changed. You would be surprise how little of the original 250gTo Ferrari out there are actually original to the cars. What counts for many is the chassis and engine numbers. The car on the latest pictures don't show the car you described but a little car very well restored.
Just enjoy what a car enthusiasts has done to a not very well looked after car.
I simply cannot understand what the owner of WMR is trying to achieve. When I had the car it was a very high mileage, well used, tired 911. It had had a total respray and it leaked like a sieve. It also had beautiful, period, Wolfrace wheels!
When he says that he has reunited the missing engine with the car how much of that engine is actually original? We are talking about a car approaching 50 years old, everything on the car, or in the engine is either ancient or has been replaced.
The stack of paperwork relating to the car shows that it has had a considerable amount of work done. If it was totally original with no extra work ever being carried out it would just have service stamps in the book and the occasional receipt for tyres, exhausts, brakes etc.
As I pointed out before, whatever the state of the car now, you cannot change history and this period back in the 1970s is part of its history.
It's as simple ase]
What I don't understand Rustyrenault is your constent bashing about this car. Bitterness is very noticeable in your posts if I can say so. You didn't realised at the time you owned an S as I completely understand you didn't really knew much about chassis and engine numbers at the time and maybe you didn't really care. But in the car collector world, chassis matching engine numbers are very important despite as you said many parts being changed. You would be surprise how little of the original 250gTo Ferrari out there are actually original to the cars. What counts for many is the chassis and engine numbers. The car on the latest pictures don't show the car you described but a little car very well restored.
Just enjoy what a car enthusiasts has done to a not very well looked after car.
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