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Well Folks, the 912 Interior is finished so Its back to real cars. A few months back a local guy found a Slate Gray/ red 65C in a friends new wife's garage. Her dad had the car for 15 years started a restoration,got it to 90%. He fell ill and pushed it in the corner of the garage south of SFO, put the loose bits in boxes and threw a cover over it.
15 years later he daughter inherits the house, contents and car still sits in the corner. She marries a friend last summer, he wants it out to make room for his Miata, and Cliff Buys the car sight unseen.
I looked at the car after he brought it to the island. Its a Jewell. Straight, dry, complete,it took me 45 minutes to verify it had been painted. I had one small drip inside the reflector hole inside the rear fender. It sat undisturbed so long there were little dust dots, from between the weave in the cotton cover. Absolutely an amazing find.
Three months later it drives. Did the normal stuff, rebuilt the brakes, flushed the fuel system. Marvel oil in the cylinders. Plugs and points looked new electrically every thing was good. Compression was 125psi after a couple weeks of oil soak, and hand turns. Fired up after 30 seconds, blew the carbon and rust out of the mufflers, but no leaks or strange noises. Good idle, but a little brown smoke on accelerating.
Took out the leather seats and sent them it for an oiling and cleaning. while the seats were out we sat on a spare tire to bleed the brakes. Mistake NO#1. After 20 minutes of bleeding found a large dusty dirty spot on the floor on the drivers side. Rust from the under side floor. Found a couple cracks in the center where the front of the tire pressed against the floor sound deadening. Peeled up the original horse hair tar paper and crap, the floor is paper thin. The floor "Tap Tested Fine" but it had rusted under the undercoating inside was OK outside had a layer of rust under the Shutz.
They are not all that bad but since Al Zim has new ones, the Saga begins.
15 years later he daughter inherits the house, contents and car still sits in the corner. She marries a friend last summer, he wants it out to make room for his Miata, and Cliff Buys the car sight unseen.
I looked at the car after he brought it to the island. Its a Jewell. Straight, dry, complete,it took me 45 minutes to verify it had been painted. I had one small drip inside the reflector hole inside the rear fender. It sat undisturbed so long there were little dust dots, from between the weave in the cotton cover. Absolutely an amazing find.
Three months later it drives. Did the normal stuff, rebuilt the brakes, flushed the fuel system. Marvel oil in the cylinders. Plugs and points looked new electrically every thing was good. Compression was 125psi after a couple weeks of oil soak, and hand turns. Fired up after 30 seconds, blew the carbon and rust out of the mufflers, but no leaks or strange noises. Good idle, but a little brown smoke on accelerating.
Took out the leather seats and sent them it for an oiling and cleaning. while the seats were out we sat on a spare tire to bleed the brakes. Mistake NO#1. After 20 minutes of bleeding found a large dusty dirty spot on the floor on the drivers side. Rust from the under side floor. Found a couple cracks in the center where the front of the tire pressed against the floor sound deadening. Peeled up the original horse hair tar paper and crap, the floor is paper thin. The floor "Tap Tested Fine" but it had rusted under the undercoating inside was OK outside had a layer of rust under the Shutz.
They are not all that bad but since Al Zim has new ones, the Saga begins.
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