Can Someone Please Tell me this is Stupid
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to be frank. understand where you're coming from. i want to get a 1973 rsr with martini livery replica. the 1973 911 is i think the purest and ultimate 911.... got a referral from leightweight about a comany in oxford that can basically build you one from original parts if i understood them correctly...
Set aside at least £25k to do it properly then...on top of the price of a donor car (budget at least £4k for a real dog of an rhd or £12k for one as a decent basis.
You'll be lucky if you find an rhd car with a rot free shell. At worst, it'll need sills, kidneys, door shuts, repairs to front cross member and boot floor, battery boxes, repairs to the front inner wing tops, patching to the inner rear wings around the torsion bar mounts (may even need a new torsion bar tube too...££££), new rear wings, (and the SC flares aren't strictly the same as the 2.7 RS' either). A bonnet (they always rust at the front), RS ducktail with aluminium frame (£££) doors, possibly a sunroof repair (if you go for a shell with a sunroof, they can rust around the aperture.
Then there's the interior, the correct seats, instruments, paintwork, correct wheels.
Then there's the engine. A 2.7 with Mag crankcases or a later engine perhaps?...
...now you can see why you don't get much change out of £40k for an Autofarm recreation.
I speak from experience - cost me £9k to restore a 1972 E to 2.7RS spec back in 1989, that was with me managing the project, sourcing mainly secondhand parts, putting the car back together etc etc.
Alternative (1)- buy one already done - I've seen lhds for less than £10k and even some rhds at that price...but I bet they're flakey underneath.
Alternative (2) - forget originality and do the job on a sound SC or 3.2 Carrera. May cost you more to buy the car in the first place and won't fool the purists at all, but a front wing change, bonnet, ducktail, wheels, PUs and seats ought to be a start. The result won't be as light, nimble or responsive as an early car though....in fact it'll be nothing like the sublime driving experience a pre impact gives you.
You'll be lucky if you find an rhd car with a rot free shell. At worst, it'll need sills, kidneys, door shuts, repairs to front cross member and boot floor, battery boxes, repairs to the front inner wing tops, patching to the inner rear wings around the torsion bar mounts (may even need a new torsion bar tube too...££££), new rear wings, (and the SC flares aren't strictly the same as the 2.7 RS' either). A bonnet (they always rust at the front), RS ducktail with aluminium frame (£££) doors, possibly a sunroof repair (if you go for a shell with a sunroof, they can rust around the aperture.
Then there's the interior, the correct seats, instruments, paintwork, correct wheels.
Then there's the engine. A 2.7 with Mag crankcases or a later engine perhaps?...
...now you can see why you don't get much change out of £40k for an Autofarm recreation.
I speak from experience - cost me £9k to restore a 1972 E to 2.7RS spec back in 1989, that was with me managing the project, sourcing mainly secondhand parts, putting the car back together etc etc.
Alternative (1)- buy one already done - I've seen lhds for less than £10k and even some rhds at that price...but I bet they're flakey underneath.
Alternative (2) - forget originality and do the job on a sound SC or 3.2 Carrera. May cost you more to buy the car in the first place and won't fool the purists at all, but a front wing change, bonnet, ducktail, wheels, PUs and seats ought to be a start. The result won't be as light, nimble or responsive as an early car though....in fact it'll be nothing like the sublime driving experience a pre impact gives you.
Check out THIS bad boy
www.elferpool.de/cargallery/angebot.php?aktion=detailed&car_id=237
And it is under 80,000 euros ( £53k) . Which is actually really cheap compared to Autofarm ( they sold one for over £130,000 sterling !)
Check out the UK reg ( although its in Germany ) so it could be checked out.
If this car is the real deal, then surely it is a great buy !
www.elferpool.de/cargallery/angebot.php?aktion=detailed&car_id=237
And it is under 80,000 euros ( £53k) . Which is actually really cheap compared to Autofarm ( they sold one for over £130,000 sterling !)
Check out the UK reg ( although its in Germany ) so it could be checked out.
If this car is the real deal, then surely it is a great buy !
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