zmotorsports
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That is AWESOME! Congratulations on your 50th. That is quite the milestone and something to be very proud of.
Above 1200 Sq/FT The Never Ending Retirement Garage/Shop Projects
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Thank you and your post is appreciated!
We thought it was a big deal at 25 years. At 50, we are still in a bit of shock to recognize the magnitude of the years together! Thank you for your post.
Hey Bug! Thank you!
Yes and thank you. She is in fact the apple of my eye....
Thanks Mike! We are quite proud and will be looking forward to many celebrations as our time together will fly to the 51st anniversary!
Many thanks to everyone that has sent a like, love, and cares! Wonderful!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for your nice comments and reactions on our 50th Anniversary. Greatly appreciated!
Back to work on the 911 and getting it ready for the big day to transport the car to the museum.
A little more paint correction and polishing completed:
Right side:
Pre-Post shots of the engine:
Oil drain tubes installed and the headers/heat exchangers:
Muffler install:
From this point, installed the badging on the engine cover and the Porsche crest on the "Frunk" cover along with a host of other little items like installing the taillight housings/lenses/wiring... All of which require a bit of creative tapping and prying to get them into the correct position. Will tell you, the hoops jumped last year on the restoration of these housings have paid off as they look pretty good.
Moving day has arrived and we get the car ready to load on the trailer:
Parking brake is a bit sticky and pushing it onto the trailer is requiring more muscle than expected:
Finally on that aluminum rig and have it ready to be tied down for the trip to Tacoma:
The mandatory shot behind the pick-up in the next post....
Back to work on the 911 and getting it ready for the big day to transport the car to the museum.
A little more paint correction and polishing completed:
Right side:
Pre-Post shots of the engine:
Oil drain tubes installed and the headers/heat exchangers:
Muffler install:
From this point, installed the badging on the engine cover and the Porsche crest on the "Frunk" cover along with a host of other little items like installing the taillight housings/lenses/wiring... All of which require a bit of creative tapping and prying to get them into the correct position. Will tell you, the hoops jumped last year on the restoration of these housings have paid off as they look pretty good.
Moving day has arrived and we get the car ready to load on the trailer:
Parking brake is a bit sticky and pushing it onto the trailer is requiring more muscle than expected:
Finally on that aluminum rig and have it ready to be tied down for the trip to Tacoma:
The mandatory shot behind the pick-up in the next post....
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On the road to the museum in Tacoma:
Removing from the trailer into the staging area at the LeMay Museum:
As a team, we give the car the final detail prior to turning the car over to the museum for the remainder of this year:
It is finally done and ready to go to the exhibit floor and will post more during the opening event this next week:
Thank you for following along.
Many of the pictures are by Jason W. Towing provided by Shawn D. along with their efforts for final clean up because, you know, it rained on the 2 hour trip to the museum.....Thanks guys!
Removing from the trailer into the staging area at the LeMay Museum:
As a team, we give the car the final detail prior to turning the car over to the museum for the remainder of this year:
It is finally done and ready to go to the exhibit floor and will post more during the opening event this next week:
Thank you for following along.
Many of the pictures are by Jason W. Towing provided by Shawn D. along with their efforts for final clean up because, you know, it rained on the 2 hour trip to the museum.....Thanks guys!
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Your 911T really looks great as you pick away at the details. I am particularly pleased with how the (restored) parking lenses and horn grills are fitted.
If you keep the Zenith carburetors you will be especially pleased with how they give instantaneous throttle response and good power.
Mine is only a few vin no's from yours, so I am partial.
Thanks for posting it.
If you keep the Zenith carburetors you will be especially pleased with how they give instantaneous throttle response and good power.
Mine is only a few vin no's from yours, so I am partial.
Thanks for posting it.
Thank you!
The Z carbs are long gone and replaced with the real deal Italian Webers. No idea how these will respond till the engine is ready to fire up. Just need to reinstall the evaporative system, connect the new gas tank to the pump, hook up the batteries and hit the switch..... I have a year to plan these activities out to the Nth degree!
Fitted new rubber gaskets/seals to each front lens. Fit was pretty good but still required some strong words and paper clamps to make sure the gaskets stretched out. The rear gaskets were nowhere near correct and were off by several inches. Ordered from Pelican and hope they will make good on the return of these. Any suggestions as to where to get good fitting rubber seals for the rear light assemblies?
Greatly appreciate your post!
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don long
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That car is a real eye catcher ody. You must be real proud. Thanks for taking us along for the ride
Toolfool
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Must be fun to be a contributor to a LeMay exhibit ! The car looks amazing.
Jayman17
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Amazing job restoring the paint and everything else on that Porsche, it looks fantastic!
I should head down there and check it out, I’ve never gone before.
I should head down there and check it out, I’ve never gone before.
xtremek
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Nice looking ride.
Wow! Just an amazing thread & inspirational in many ways reading from start to now. All except that comment about the floors looking like a delivery room. Could have done without that mental picture but joking of course. Plus 1 on the Corvette sound video. The entertainment & educational value of your thread is high & much appreciated.
I have been away from GJ for some ten years while laser focused on business endeavors. At age 75 that has produced handsomely but retired now in the last year. Now as I am getting rested mentally, I am thinking about what is next in my life. Returned to GJ while healing.
Knowledge is valuable no matter how you get it. I notice many do research for solutions to problems via the internet, youtube, etc. Teachers like you, Don Long, Shopnut, Denwood, OldCarGuy, slodat, sakurama, IGO2XS, Jack Olsen, LLWillysfan & many more in coming time have me drinking from a firehose as I experienced when learning instrument flying. You guys have no idea how much knowledge you are transferring to Texas. Thank you all for sharing!
I have been away from GJ for some ten years while laser focused on business endeavors. At age 75 that has produced handsomely but retired now in the last year. Now as I am getting rested mentally, I am thinking about what is next in my life. Returned to GJ while healing.
Knowledge is valuable no matter how you get it. I notice many do research for solutions to problems via the internet, youtube, etc. Teachers like you, Don Long, Shopnut, Denwood, OldCarGuy, slodat, sakurama, IGO2XS, Jack Olsen, LLWillysfan & many more in coming time have me drinking from a firehose as I experienced when learning instrument flying. You guys have no idea how much knowledge you are transferring to Texas. Thank you all for sharing!
Hey Jayman! Thank you for your compliment! Yeah, the 911 looks pretty good at 10 feet, but truth be told, it looks twice as good at 20....
Appreciate your post and yes, by all means, visit that museum. It also has a pretty good restaurant in there as well. Mid-week is probably the best time to go if you want to avoid crowds.
Basement floor @ Club Auto and the receiving/departure area. 4 more floor to see. All worth the time.
Thank you for taking the time and endurance to read this thread. As you have probably gleaned, my posts run Hot/Cold for no particular reason. It is fun and rewarding to get excited about any one topic where my involvement may hold interest to others, like the 911 Porsche, where I may go a bit over the top... but that too is OK!
There are great presenters on this forum and many have also been influential to me as well. Clearly, there is no harm or foul in taking the great ideas and actions from the folks that post here, in fact, think many are flattered when their content is acted upon.
Nice to read you liked the video of the Corvette and the sound of the engine. Greatly appreciated! Also noteworthy, is your comment about the L&D room floor during "C"-Section. Without too much detail, trained OB/GYN Docs to use a special stapling device to open the uterus for delivery and at the same time, vastly reduce bleeding during C-Section. Probably scrubbed into at least a couple hundred cases to train the docs and nursing staff. Bottom line, the device reduced operation time and reduced postoperative morbidity which means the patient healed faster and went home sooner. So, that is my reference to the floor in my shop when wet sanding the '59 356!
Good to learn you have your IFR ticket. Have several hundred hours in C172/182 but stopped short of the instrument rating to go fast and low in sport cars...
All the best to you in all of your future endeavors!
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Good friend will have his '93 964 RS added to the exhibit and will be center stage for several months until the Carrera GT hits the floor:
The 911 off to the right and another friends '64 356 C to the left. It's the nicest 356 Coupe on the Peninsula!
Have finished off the firewood storage building and we finally have it nearly filled. Think we can get another couple of cords stacked in it. This wood will season for a couple of years prior to using:
As always, thank you for reading and looking at the pictures.
The 911 off to the right and another friends '64 356 C to the left. It's the nicest 356 Coupe on the Peninsula!
Have finished off the firewood storage building and we finally have it nearly filled. Think we can get another couple of cords stacked in it. This wood will season for a couple of years prior to using:
As always, thank you for reading and looking at the pictures.
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xtremek
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Is that pine?
xtremek
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Does Douglas Fir have as much cresote in it as pine?
Not as much as pine has. Heat value in Doug Fir is higher than pine too. We just burn them hot and don't allow for any "smoldering" fires.
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Thanks for posting here and take care.
Dang I missed some of the new posts here and catching up...
Congrats on the Anniversary! Couple more years for wife and I to hit double digits and some times that feels like ages ago! And huge congrats on the car at LeMay, I think thats my favorite car museum I've been to so far. Was out years ago for a personal trip I double dipped a couple days of work into and spent a day driving down from Seattle to see it...very glad I did that! Looking forward to seeing more updates as you have time to share!
Congrats on the Anniversary! Couple more years for wife and I to hit double digits and some times that feels like ages ago! And huge congrats on the car at LeMay, I think thats my favorite car museum I've been to so far. Was out years ago for a personal trip I double dipped a couple days of work into and spent a day driving down from Seattle to see it...very glad I did that! Looking forward to seeing more updates as you have time to share!
Thanks for taking the time to read and post!
Enjoy your years together as the more fun you have together, the faster the time will slip by while having a wonderful life!
Good to know you took the time to visit the museum in Tacoma. Can't say enough good things about it and the people that manage the exhibits. We are more than lucky to have had several cars there on display and we are hopeful to show some of the other cars from our collection. Will be posting more this weekend.
Thanks again for taking the time to post!
Ody.
Poor old Porsche trying to get some attention a couple of years ago:
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Nice morning at the LeMay Museum. Outside, in the parking area were hundreds of Porsches. Inside, hundreds of people!
Before the exhibit opened, each car had a parachute draped over it and at the formal start of the exhibit, the announcer read a description of the cars as they were individually unveiled:
Was thrilled as they came to our car and he began to describe it as the parachute was removed.... This fellow said it was a "Turbo!!!" Nope, this 911 is the base model designated by the badging of "T". On the good side, lots of people had questions for me. We all had a pretty good laugh!
Anyway, wife shot a video and I'll post that later on. By the way, many people loved the color and the brilliance of the paint. Made my heart so happy!
Thanks for taking the time to read and to look at the pictures.
Our best!
Before the exhibit opened, each car had a parachute draped over it and at the formal start of the exhibit, the announcer read a description of the cars as they were individually unveiled:
Was thrilled as they came to our car and he began to describe it as the parachute was removed.... This fellow said it was a "Turbo!!!" Nope, this 911 is the base model designated by the badging of "T". On the good side, lots of people had questions for me. We all had a pretty good laugh!
Anyway, wife shot a video and I'll post that later on. By the way, many people loved the color and the brilliance of the paint. Made my heart so happy!
Thanks for taking the time to read and to look at the pictures.
Our best!
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Bill T
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First of all, I believe you and your spouse are the standard to which we (all) should strive. Great work. I regards to your concrete "levelness", most commercial contracts specify that any out-of-level remediations be noted within 72 hours of concrete placement. Again commercial contracts. Very seldom are residential jobs speced out to this level.
Again,,,, Great work. Beautiful property.
By the way, I restore British sportscars as a hobby. I do have a couple of German cars in the flock. One that has not been restored yet) is an 1989 BMW 325is and 1 9182 Porshe 911SC. The Porsche does not need restration. It is original, unrestored.See attached. Ilove my Triumphs, but I also have a dark side love for my 911.
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Toolfool
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Glad to hear the opening went well. I bet it will be days before that smile leaves your face. 
Congratulations ODIS.
Congratulations ODIS.Jayman17
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Your 911 looks awesome under the lights! That color is nice, I agree with the people
Thank you for your kind words and your post to this thread! You have some great interest in cars and must say the "dark side" can be every enjoyable.First of all, I believe you and your spouse are the standard to which we (all) should strive. Great work. I regards to your concrete "levelness", most commercial contracts specify that any out-of-level remediations be noted within 72 hours of concrete placement. Again commercial contracts. Very seldom are residential jobs speced out to this level.
Again,,,, Great work. Beautiful property.
By the way, I restore British sportscars as a hobby. I do have a couple of German cars in the flock. One that has not been restored yet) is an 1989 BMW 325is and 1 9182 Porshe 911SC. The Porsche does not need restration. It is original, unrestored.See attached. Ilove my Triumphs, but I also have a dark side love for my 911.
Thanks again and we wish you well!
Hi ya Toolfool! Thanks for your note and the congratulations too! We had a great time and yes, you are right, it is going to take some time to have the "high" of the show day to wear off!Glad to hear the opening went well. I bet it will be days before that smile leaves your face.
Thanks Jayman! You have great taste in cars and color choices! Thanks for posting.
jbmatth
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I don't comment often here but keep an eye on your happenings, congrats on getting your car into Lemay, it is well earned!
JB
JB
Thank you, JB and appreciate you taking the time to post. As mentioned, this was lots of work but the kind of work that is for the most part, very enjoyable.
All too true! Busting at the seams proud. If you do get the chance to go to the museum, would be appreciated if you could snap a picture or two. Thanks for posting here.
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Window trim finally complete in library and in the living/great room. Amen to this project and thankful for the painter's skill they brought to this one. An exceptional job as they did the spackle and paint which made me the fantastic finish carpenter I ain't!![IMG_3991[1].JPG](https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/data/attachments/1671/1671530-e68676d1b80b33cef87e16d027cb83a9.jpg "IMG_3991[1].JPG")
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Jayman17
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Trim, what trim? All I see is that view! Ok, ok the trim does look good too. 
Yeah, was successful for years telling my wife no one is looking at the window trim.... They are all looking at the view, but then she said: "I've seen that view and the lack of formal window trim... I want this house DONE!" Could not agree more!Trim, what trim? All I see is that view! Ok, ok the trim does look good too.
Yes Dear....
slodat
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She's right. The trim looks great!!
xtremek
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Since you're so good with the trim, feel free to drop by the Hack Shack and finish mine up.
Boosted1
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Late to the party here. I'll add my congrats on your 50th!
The 911 paint looks fantastic and I love the story and how the stickers from Lieutenant Whalen are preserved.
The 911 paint looks fantastic and I love the story and how the stickers from Lieutenant Whalen are preserved.
You are always welcome here Boosted1 no matter what!
Thanks for your well wishes on our 50th and too, for your nice comments on the "Lieutenant's Car" and its badging. We will preserve these decals and we hope to add more information going forward on the history that this little car holds.
Speaking of history and cars, we took these to our local Cars & Coffee on Saturday. It was freezing when we left the house and by the time we returned, it was way up in the 40's! And now to a little history:
We are the second owners of this '97 Ferrari 456 GT. When we acquired the car, there were only a few thousand miles on it, and now, we are closing in on over 9K miles. The original owner sold the car because, as he said, easy to get into but too hard to get out of it.... So he sold it to us as we were younger and in better shape to ingress and egress the car...... for now....
We are the 7th owners of the T-Bird. Always owned in Washington State. Previous owner had the car for over 40 years and he interviewed me on 4 separate occasions to determine if we were acceptable stewards for the car during next few decades. We are the better stewards and truth be told, it is one of the many I love in the collection!
As always, thanks for reading and looking at the pictures.
Odis.