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It's short wheelbase, 2 litre engine, probably on carbs and likely to be a 4 spped and lhd. 9 out of any 10 cars of this age are full of filler.
Early cars are not very quick and don't have the grip of a more modern 911. I've never (dared to have) driven an SWB fast enough to experience its peculiar handling characteristics though.
But as a classic car to tool around in, I could think of a lot worse and early cars, regardless of spec really do provide a pleasant driving experience - light steering, virtually undampened engine note and that fine smell of petrol sneaking in through the rotten exchangers...
Value? anything from £6k to £15k perhaps. What's it priced at?
As an aside, I looked at an Integrale recently. The guy owning it also owned a 1967 silver 911. From a distance it looked nice. Close up it did not - door gaps were terrible, paint wasn't good and it had clearly been bodged at some time in its life. It would have been uneconomic to restore it since it wasn't a particularly desirable model.
Early cars are not very quick and don't have the grip of a more modern 911. I've never (dared to have) driven an SWB fast enough to experience its peculiar handling characteristics though.
But as a classic car to tool around in, I could think of a lot worse and early cars, regardless of spec really do provide a pleasant driving experience - light steering, virtually undampened engine note and that fine smell of petrol sneaking in through the rotten exchangers...
Value? anything from £6k to £15k perhaps. What's it priced at?
As an aside, I looked at an Integrale recently. The guy owning it also owned a 1967 silver 911. From a distance it looked nice. Close up it did not - door gaps were terrible, paint wasn't good and it had clearly been bodged at some time in its life. It would have been uneconomic to restore it since it wasn't a particularly desirable model.
I have just bought a 1970 2.2 T which I am going to build into a 2.7 RS Rep........I looked at half a dozen and as Rubystone says they were full of filler.......I have bought an american car from a dry state and that has a little bit of rust........value of a 1965 car, if it is pristine its worth £15K retail in my view..might take a while to sell as the car is truly a "collectors" vehicle
Was looking at some recently imported
ex-drystate stock the other day off the M40.
They look a bit sorry for themselves, after a lifetime in the sun, has done its worst with paint and vinyls, but having seen the end restoration to, its worth the initial expense of sourcing a good base car.
will there be a sequence of pics of your project ?
ex-drystate stock the other day off the M40.
They look a bit sorry for themselves, after a lifetime in the sun, has done its worst with paint and vinyls, but having seen the end restoration to, its worth the initial expense of sourcing a good base car.
will there be a sequence of pics of your project ?
rich 36 said:
Can someone put up picture of a SWB for quick refference, is the oil filler on the rear wing, on this age car, or is that another one ?
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Rich, only the E Series 2.4s had the external filler (oh and the 959 had a filler there too....). The oil tank was relocated nearer to the centre of the car for that model year to improve weight dsitribution (IIRC) but apparently some people mistook the flap for the fuel filler with disastrous results. Porsche rapidly reverted to the previous incarnation for the F Series (to my mind the ultimate spec for a pre impact car).
The SWB can be identified by the distance between the jacking point cover and the rear wing - it's several inches (I can't remember how many) shorter than that on a "LWB" car - enough to be obvious.
Don't know who Mike is, but there were a remarkable number of cars there considering they were all in excess of 30 years old...
About 20 356's i'd say, and at least 40 or 50 pre 73 911's.
At one point this chap turned up in a Carrera GT, posed with it for about 30 minutes, then drove off again. D'oh!
Oh, and that mid blue 356 Carrera turned up on a trailer. 4 cam, etc, and the windows are on straps because winders are too heavy! Awesome.
VS
About 20 356's i'd say, and at least 40 or 50 pre 73 911's.
At one point this chap turned up in a Carrera GT, posed with it for about 30 minutes, then drove off again. D'oh!
Oh, and that mid blue 356 Carrera turned up on a trailer. 4 cam, etc, and the windows are on straps because winders are too heavy! Awesome.
VS
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