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Porsche 911 Restoration | Full Episode | S1E02 | Classic Car Rescue

Jun 09, 2021
This time at Wasat Car Salvage, Burnie and Mario search for one of the best super cars in the world to restore. There's trouble at the shop when their new cars' checkered past is revealed. I think the Polish could be a car shop and tempers run high as

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struggles to reached its deadline wanted to be tough in just 21 days independent appraiser will reveal whether they made money or lost thousands Burnie Fineman is a no-nonsense fan of the cockney cars it's just a sham the university is left running Marial passione is a Canadian car dealer, a lifelong car enthusiast who has been in the business for 30 years.
porsche 911 restoration full episode s1e02 classic car rescue
All the cars I've ever wanted to own seem to be here in the English countryside. They are trying to find another

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car to restore what's underneath the next one. canvas I didn't steal anything I'm not a red guy but they can't agree on which one to make what scimitar so dependent NASCAR what piece of shit fiberglass look it's

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what is this 1957 Morris thing matter a thousand cracked windshields I have never seen one first you want the waves pens teeth Bernie we're not going to restore this Curt forget it 1960 62 junk there's one car more than any other that Mario would love to restore and it's not here I love Porsches, the Porsche that Muriel wants to get what she has in In your hands is the German supercar that is the 911.
porsche 911 restoration full episode s1e02 classic car rescue

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It is a car that has always refused to follow the rules. The engines are not in the front, it is in the rear and its distinctive frog eyes have often been described as ugly for their speed and impressive build quality. The racers have been happy from the beginning to convince Bernie that this should be his next project. Mario borrowed it. It's great. It's a great car. He just drank well. That's what everyone loves about these cars. Burn speed trying. Miriam. Oh honey, quick first here. It has been agreed that the best bargain 911s are from the 70s and are completely restored, on average they can cost between thirty and forty-five thousand dollars.
porsche 911 restoration full episode s1e02 classic car rescue
Bernie and Mario have a budget of only eight thousand pounds, which is equivalent to about twelve thousand dollars, since restoring them could cost the same. If they want to make money they'll have to stick to their budget a few days later they'll go see their first rust bucket this car runs it's like there no not really what do you mean you won't really understand Look, which one is this one, no, the next one, yeah, where is the rest of the car? Mike on the kit, are you kidding me, seriously, eights, stripes, these are all the parts, these are all the parts, it's not ridiculous, the guys are looking for a project, but this.
porsche 911 restoration full episode s1e02 classic car rescue
It might be too much work even for them, so what exactly goes with the car? All Manas, the engine, forgive me, my engine, yes, are you crazy? Tommy, this is absolutely crazy. Did you see this time? Well, all I saw was a photo. Did you have your glasses? Actually, what do you want for this 6 and 1/2? Sorry, what 6 pounds 59 six thousand five hundred five hundred pepper, you will be the worst weather, walk forward, we would need at least four or five guys. about four months in, so maybe since I have four gentlemen, we forget about it now, Mike, thanks so much for your time, guys anyway, post if any pieces let me know.
The guys are looking for a car, not a carcass, they're just getting missing parts for this one could take weeks, so why buy an old Porsche? The 911 caught the attention of the general public in the brazen 1980s, when greed and excess were the order of the day. This was the era of Monte's big shoulders and even bigger cell phones. Carlo to Miami, a Porsche announced that it had arrived in more ways than one - it even came with an optional striped interior - but long before all this Porsche built its reputation with cars that pushed the driving experience to the limit, Steve McQueen was racing With Porsche, Paul Newman was obsessed. with them and James Dean drove and crashed on the way to race your buy a Porsche and you buy some serious automobile history if only the boys could find one Bernie has had another blow and is heading 200 miles north to the town of Stoke, go to the bathroom.
I've heard that before, I'll skip any place to meet up, excuse me ex and I'm hammered, oh boy here it is, so this is the Beast, this is the Beast needs some work, some work, yeah, what happened to him? ceiling the ceiling the paint on the ceiling was pretty cracked and I think the moisture got in and it started to burn a little bit. Do you have the hood of the car? Yes, I have the hood somewhere behind, but yeah. but about the headlights they don't happen I have the headlights oh the grilles you would receive you have the grill you have the grill I will tell you that I am lucky that it has four wheels the second world war breaks out here what absolute state parts are missing the headlights are missing the paint is the same paper so really as is what I'm buying this is what you see is what you get how much are you paying me to drive you cool I take the parts list I have Little one get in that car it's a weevil worse than buying this and my wife does it every week to check the engine.
This is my trusty O'Toole, so the old fashioned way he uses a long screwdriver with a handle to put the metal in. part of the engine transmits the noise, it's like talking and you can get a very good overview of what the inside of the engine is like. I was happy with it because the engine sounded great, the car has a good engine but the owners have been touching it up to restore it properly, this car will need a complete bare metal

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, a completely new interior and a complete mechanical overhaul. Bernice's maximum budget is eight thousand pounds, so she needs a very low price, so tell me how much you want for it. eight for it.
I've come all the way from Cockney London to see this. You saw the photos before they occurred to you. Yes, I saw the photos. They made me look handsome and that's saying something. Look. I'm a serious buyer I have cash I have a five come on no it's not far 7250 but we're not good when I say yes I'll leave now and the salesman refuses to give up the cars Bernie Mario hey smart guy what's going? Well, I've been through this pole, how much do you want for it? Just buy it, don't worry, I want a Porsche, I'm telling you now, I have a bad feeling, right?
I want the car just for okay, I don't want it, oh boy, thanks partial, buy it, so I'm going to buy it, but we'll still try to lower it about six and a half six more in our company, come on. They're not a million miles away seven and that's it no you won't shake my servant I'll tell you what 69 hundred pounds you allow me less than a pound okay sixteen hundred but it has to go today. I will pay you nothing right now or gentlemen. Jackie, I'm not with that, it may not have been the sweet deal Bernie was hoping for, but at Mario's insistence, the boys now own and take care of one of the most iconic supercars in the world.
Bernie don't make too much of it. yesterday Bernie bought a Porsche 911 which is ready to be restored now the supercar has arrived at the garage for Mario to see it for the first time anywhere sorry thanks guys Mario you want a push I gave you a push it's a car now , I really like the Porsche. when I saw it and knew I was right about this one I loved it Joey the motor three point three Mario Oh fantastic it's a good solid motor it has a new set of cables the cables are 500 pound stems on the bottom you drove it not because the toy is obviously illegal we started on the sides a small pile of rubbish rubbish Hoffer - the ball was missing the roof is a little beat up and the dentists let the board take another look we have bought it worse cars, we have gotten out of it, we have made money , don't worry it will work, it's all about remembering that you told me to buy it, so what does it take to make a car like this look like this completely? restore your 911, you will need to sand the rusted body down to bare metal repair and repaint rip out and replace the tired interior rewire half a mile of electrical systems and get all the missing parts tires brakes all suspension steering air boost and the shock absorbers the less they spend, the more profits they will make, they estimate that the job will cost them 8,000 pounds, that is, around $12,000, we will spend what we have to spend the least amount we have and the biggest outlay of all is labor, so they We have decided to do it in record time.
Some restorations can take years to complete. Bernie and Mariel plan to make theirs in just three weeks. We are going to make money with this. It's a sports car. It's a Porsche. I mean, there's only a limited amount. Those around Mario are convinced that it is a good purchase, but he is not the one who will get his hands dirty, that now depends on a team of mechanics. Okay, there's a little time. Oh, we have three weeks. I'll do this in three weeks. I owe you this, that's where your experience lies, we've done it before, this isn't our first project, yeah, but it's like I take it apart, take it back to hit it, it takes time, well, we have the A team.
I'm not your table in the age. The stains on all the pieces are here. We may have half a chance of doing a

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bare metal restoration. Mechanics must first take the car apart, but while some parts unscrew easily—yes, that's it—others are sealed. with 30 years of dirt, but as more of the car's shell is revealed, the mechanics discover something suspicious, invisible to the untrained eye for a mechanic, the sign of a potential problem, okay, I see the days of this century, yeah, It seems a little strange to me, it doesn't feel at all. Well, I just saw it, it looks like this car has been repaired, so the mechanics removed the welds by hand.
Yeah, it's not nice in there. I wonder if it's in or not, but could it be a gunshot from the car? Possibly the mechanics think they have. found what is known in the sector as cutting and closing damaged vehicles welded together to make a possible highly dangerous death trap and if this is so, it means that the boys have spent close to £7,000. Wayne has the unenviable job of breaking the news. Mariel and Bernie, thanks, but it looks like a car show to me. Are you 100% in this or do you just have to see the 90%? I need to know if it's where it's not or if we were throwing it away.
Roy, well, when the mechanics came and told me that this car could be cut up and closed. I'm thinking, oh, this money was spent on his car, the toilet just broke. I'm going to have to crush this thing and it was my decision to buy it if they make it. 911 is for damaged cars welded together, game over for restoration. Mario has seen more bad repair jobs than most and wants to inspect the car himself. You know, it's all the filler here like a weld underneath that goes all the way to the windshield panel. just not quite right there's a little weld here it's very lumpy here like there's too much filler for the body what is this? your butt isn't it a little lumpy like there's too much filler for the body there's a little bit of filler there yeah, there's a little bit you know what I think happened to this car, this is what happened, someone drove this into a ditch and fell on this side, someone put in a new screen because as everyone can see this is new and they just did a sloppy job fixing the fill in the roof and here and the only way to know 100 percent if we take it off if there's a weld on the other side here then it is a sharp shutter there is no well, they just killed the workers you are not a medium throw it away you have three chances and that car paid for this street oh there is no open envelope here take out the windshield I don't care if you break it take it out and let's decide this right now Mario wants to chase the well back if it continues under the windshield and along the entire length of the car, then this is an excellent cancellation, well, we didn't talk, what can you say, not a speck of anything bad on the bodywork, just what I told you, this thing is really just a bad repair. on the one hand that seems like a disaster what we have there is no coup like she saved six thousand and nine you could also thank me for being right I was wrong let's go have a beer oh man catastrophe averted Bernie and Mario guide the boys to move forward With the doors removed from the inside out, even the fenders are broken, revealing the extraordinary body design of the nine eleven behind which one of the strangest stories in automotive history lives.
In the 1930s, automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche created one of the most famous cars in the world. No, not the 911, but it is the grandfather, the beetle, also known as Hitler's famous Volkswagen or the people's car. It had an air-cooled engine that was located at the rear and if you look closely, some rather ugly frog eyes look familiar from the war. Porsche took the Beetle and turned it into a sports car, one that would become the 911. Many of the parts on today's Porsches evolved from those on the Beetle. Now Mario has to find some for his own and give them a lesson on how to speak.like a cockney Nifty is a fifty nifty is a fifty deep seat Wyatt, although Ava is a five deep sea divers a five the reason someone teach me this so I can get along with the car guys when I'm looking for parts, it's best go get some. bargains I can always get bargains on bangers and mash, so Mariel goes with a long list that includes shock absorbers and a taillight, a typical restaurateur shopping list, hey man, how much is this piece of glass right here, this room of glass? 20, okay.
I will take it. I have all the pieces together and then we start bartering for the price which is 10 20 30 and 20. Everything is at 70 pounds. Really, how about a clever one? So what's that clever? We're talking about 50. I can do it. He is 6-0, weighs 60 pounds. I need a battery; you're probably looking to get cut on a deep sea diver, we're talking about a five dollar sea diver and he had enough, he thought I was a little bit of a joker or something, that's when I finally spoke normal English and offered him cash , you made a deal, it was ok for all this copper stuff in the garage, the guys spent five days removing all signs of rust, filled the holes, rectified any weld marks and smoothed out the corrugations and the roof and fenders with putty , then they sand everything before working all night to produce a dramatic transformation.
The block is not your new color, but a layer of baked-on primer that is used to show every imperfection over the entire panel. Don't stay in one area for too long, yes, make sure the block is flat, stay on the tightest areas. flat up here, yeah, and then leave these edges and we hand them care

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y, guys look at the black primer with sandpaper. and water until you reach the large filling that they already applied. The only way to know if it is completely smooth is to check it by hand. Kairi just all the way back here and then gradually work forward, but don't forget that you have come all the way here too because I'm only doing half of it I'm not doing you you're half as good when Bernie bought the car the roof was badly damaged now it's on its way of being smooth that is the day it left the factory unfortunately it is a different story under the car, it is inserted, the old brake pads, discs and calipers cannot be saved and shiny new replacement parts are installed.
The guys then move on to the 911's remarkable rear suspension, a brilliantly minimalist piece of engineering that took inspiration from an unlikely source - like many military vehicles, Porsches use a torsion bar suspension where two twisted steel bars help counteract the rear suspension. body roll. It came at a price: the weight of the rear acted like a giant pendulum that caused many unsuspecting drivers to spin, but it also gave the car supreme traction and when mastered, meant the 9/11 could take corners faster than almost every other car on the road. In the shop the mechanics spent two days renewing the suspension replacing the worn shock absorbers which are present for you thank you very much and preparing the 911 for its return to the road yes perfect it's day 11 of the three week restoration and Finally all that black primer was removed, revealing a totally smooth surface ready for spray painting, check this out.
Wow, there was a little damage here and here, yeah, nothing major. The damage was here and that's what worried me, but no one would ever know it was ever in an accident. Nobody looks perfect. Eight, it really takes the workmanship they did on that part. Absolutely perfect. I made the boys proud. a change in one instance I was wrong and you were right very good thank you very much for the change but I told you that it was a good idea to buy the car finally there is a truce in the workshop but foreseeably not for long I want to paint the car silver well, three silver forget it as the color choice soon threatens to ruin a beautiful horrible friendship we decide the color what do you mean you decided my color you take out the car I choose the necklace Bernie and Mario only have seven days left to complete their 9/11 restoration With the body repaired and protected from further damage, it's time for Bernie to tackle the famous air-cooled engine.
Robust, strong and completely reliable. It would be the engine of choice for the 911 for three decades, but key to its smooth operation is a small marvel of the engine mechanic, the dealer and Bernie is taking it apart, we are making sure everything works correctly in the car, the most important thing about the car is that the sparks don't ignite properly, you're not going anywhere, this is a very neglected part of the car, so the distributor cap supplies all the high voltage directly through the distributor cap through the arm from the rotor to the spark plug wires which then ignite the air/fuel mixture, if it doesn't ignite, it doesn't ignite. anywhere its like being a dentist with little teeth there when the rotor arm spins it contacts each tooth individually so being a 6 cylinder engine it fires one five three six two four if you fire two of them together it will miss and Flames coming out the back looks cool, but it doesn't actually work very well.
You have to understand that this small piece of plastic, when it is inside the cover and the engine is idling, is identified between eight hundred and nine hundred revolutions. per minute, when you really put your foot down and you really want some power, this thing can go up to 8,000 revolutions per minute, this thing is really moving now, what happens is it's made of brass and the contacts are made brass. Naturally, from static we get a buildup of carbon. Now what we're doing is making sure that this works correctly. We're just removing a little bit of carbon from the inside of the lid and that will ensure that our baby will actually move with it. distributor contacts clean and a new air filter installed the 911's return to the road is fast approaching but there is still one body piece missing the whale tail of the Pumas has become an iconic part of the Porsche image, but it's not just for style, it's there for a reason that acts as an inverted wing pushes the rear wheels into the asphalt increasing the car's speed through corners, while the built-in vents helped keep the engines cool every time. more powerful.
Burnie and Muriel want a whale tail for their 911 and they know exactly where to put it. find one, it's nice to see you again, hey guys, you're all you got, you beat us, didn't you do it again, guys, we've got a lot of parts here, Mike, no, this looks good, the one the winner, yes. It sounds like a yes, how much do you want for it, Mike, a hundred quid. I'll go, leave it out. Gasoline money comes here. Let's depreciate the second one. We'll take your hands off. Fifty I can't pay. I'll give you. £75 will do it, advance the tap and a couple of jokes with all the replacement body work now obtained, the car is ready for its repaint, like the registration greens, really nice, oh, forget about the yellow, the red, Forget it, pink, yes, a decision needs to be made.
It will be done according to color, but Mary and Bernie haven't agreed yet. I want to paint the car silver. Come on, all this work we've done on the car to get it back to its original color. It's not white. Listen carefully, what creates value in a car? It's the original color the original color of this car is slate gray or something like that if we have a call you see it's silver oh look there's another silver car well don't do anything silver forget it there are no records of who made you Dad Oh God who made you the gardener I have already sided with the color, what do you mean with this area? my color you touch the car I choose the color so what color will Bernie choose in the 1970s?
Porsches came in a range of fantastically garish colors, from lime green to sunflower. Yellow, you could even have pink. Bernie chose a color that is as distinctive as any of those that are a contemporary version of the original Signal Orange offered in the '70s, but what will Muriel think? Ernie, you goat, you painted it. Orange, didn't you stop laughing? You painted it orange. You can see it well. The car really was fantastic and looks better than I thought. Bernie did a good job choosing the color. This time I was really impressed. The quiet in the shop was short-lived as Bernie and Mario struggled to meet their deadline George is right Marial passione and Bernie Fineman are struggling to restore a classic Porsche 911 that looked ready to be scrapped.
Did you drive it? No, what do you mean by fear? He tried on the neck restraints, man, they're only four days old. is missing before the appraiser arrives and with the repaint complete the mechanics can finally begin the overhaul. There is a lot to do, they need to customize a completely new interior, tune up the air-cooled engine and rewire some shoddy electrical systems inside the car. Porsche is half a mile of wiring the 911's killer application in any car, the electrical system runs everything from the ignition and gauges to the gauges and heater, if the electrical system doesn't work your car won't start unlike of the competition.
Porsche's electrical systems were reliable. and that made the 911 the first supercar you can use every day, but the electrical system on this car is a disaster and time is quickly running out to complete the restoration. Bernie doesn't know why none of the lights work. Bernie let me do something to Process this, you're going to help me, yes, it's not the first time we've worked on a Porsche. I'm not very good with electricity, but I can do it well, so get going, sunshine, I've got the pony, yeah, what's a back block? I just check the wires on the bench block and make sure the main contact is gone, it's happening here.
I'm supposed to be the damn indicator of what you're doing, are you pushing the block in or not, yeah, yeah, I'm, it's in, it's in. I just press very picky here no live feed yes great again look turn on a marker light why this side doesn't work at all I can hear the relay but I can't see the light test with the other side well done one day I thought what's supposed to to work now it's not working nothing's wrong with that zero I just have why the flood name work neither of them work what they were working on before what's going on here what's Matty?
Don't touch those don't touch the wiring of the holder. Don't touch the hate like Wally, relax, you know what your FERC Deut is. I've had an ugly one, I'll tell you by saying you're bad, thank you sir, chocolate ice. The correct wiring system in a Porsche is very, very complex and if you don't. It's not what you're doing with it, don't touch it after three more hours. Bernie admits defeat and calls in specialists to help him. The problem is old because they suffered dirty connections and all the terminals, the rest of the car's lights appear to be working fine from the front indicators, the team now has less than two days to finish the restoration and as work continues on the electrical system, there is pressure to fit the new interior and the first job is to complete the headliner, it is a time consuming task. that involves measuring, cutting and pasting into position.
I wish I had your trust, son John, but as time passes, there's a new problem: the engine won't start and suspicion turns once again to the dead-as-a-nail wiring, how's it going guys, isn't it? going anywhere, they're mine, they power the air conditioning, you just disappeared while doing repairs, the wires don't get dirty, well it's there, but I'm getting life, so how long do you think the story will take? Honestly, however long it takes because it's not wide like it should be what for one hour one hour two hours three hours just give me a rough Oh hopefully less than an hour okay I'll do what we have to do after Two more hours of troubleshooting, the guys discovered the problem only once.
A faulty cable in the electronic control unit had left the car without power with the old cable replaced. Could the electrical nightmare finally end? They've broken it in and with the engine now purring, the team can focus on finishing the restoration, but time is almost up, it's time. The mechanics put in a full day's work on the 911. Tomorrow the appraiser arrives to inspect the car, so Bernie shoves the troops under the car. Every nut and bolt is checked and tight replacement parts are screwed into place and Mario gets artistic by touching up the smallest chips to paint and color coordinate the brake calipers.
Two things are done. What you touch. The number one joke look. Number two is Stephanie Enlightened. She fixes herself as the race for completion continues. Side skirts are attached. The body panels are aligned. Joker laughing and the loss of the newly renewed alloys complete. with the Porsche logo is fixed in place, but as theTime passes, it will take a couple of guys about 24 hours to do this, it will be safe on the road, the pressure is getting to Mario, let's lower this so we lower the cost of glass. There's not 14 feet to my car, you know, we're not going off the ramp, yeah, there's a sway bar mount when you go and do it, no, Swedish, just four people doing the same thing, going through something, our Bernie again pre-.
Olympic yes, I'll get nervous, he tells me that I'm not supervising properly, it's late, I'm tired, the guys are doing it at the moment, that's all, my joint broke, it's incredible, I have to tell you what to do, tell me . what to do tell me if you had half a brain or my knowledge you could know what I'm doing but you're not doing well enough is enough we have to do this I'll tell you what George dear right? if the guys don't stop arguing they will never finish the car on time Muriel and Bernice the 911 restoration got off to a shaky start the pole I think was tripped luckily the suspicious weld turned out to be nothing more than a shoddy repair job no safe cut 6009 they could also thank me despite the ups and downs the harmony has returned to the workshop I didn't like the color but it came out at night it shines on you like you grew on me after only 21 days the 911 is complete three weeks ago it was a disaster that was It was rusting on a suburban road, but now looks dramatically restored, almost in showroom condition.
The bodywork is shiny. The interior is custom made, but it has been a difficult challenge. The poorly repaired bodywork was stripped down to bare metal. It was repainted and a completely new interior installed. All of this cost $8,000. Burnie and Muriel managed to get all the spare parts for around three grand. The total cost of the restoration was $11,000. The original cost of the car was another 11,000, so Burnie and Mario need a valuation of $22,000. Or around £14,000 just to cover expenses for the man who will make the decision. is independent car appraiser Dylan miles Dylan knows everything there is to know about the classic car market and is a hard man to impress hi Betty hi Mike let me get the garage for you Mary Oh Wow amazing he is a very respected person his craft Of course your opinion anything that says about car and value really counts.
How do you like a beautiful car? I really like the color. I think it really suits the car. Is this the original bumper where it was on the car when we bought it? Good. I don't think it's original. line now it's not an original bumper it's a pattern piece but it looks good it came with the car I like the pipes it does pop the color really well we have a little bit of chipped paint here guys that whole section there we're just going to touch it up nice a little worried not lost on me was this whale tail on the car when you built it no we actually bought the world towel separately hmm I have to say it's not the cleanest engine bay I've ever seen.
I didn't have time to clean it up a bit, but you're sure it works great. I'd love to hear it. We'll turn it on so it's okay. Once Dylan's forensic inspection is complete he will give his professional opinion on what he thinks this 911 is worth my impressions as the paint job has been carried out to a high standard although it is not a traditional colour, still being very similar to the one used in the 70s and especially with the whale tail, you know. I have a really iconic period look. I took a lot of notes. The value.
I'm thinking. Wait, this is good or bad. That's the moment you hold your breath. For 22 it's not bad, it's fantastic, that's a lot of money to make on a car. I think it's a good win and the time frame that we had, how we're going to celebrate, we're going to go for a ride, yeah honey, this card turned out well. I'm telling you, it was worth every vacation, but not everything below sold out. We just repaired the car. I just tried it even though cows are wonderful. Now you have to move on to the next one.
Do you know what kind of car? I want to do the following, like let's make a Bentley Bentley. I bought an Austen ball or we could do a Meryl now. It's not really a classic cow, is it?

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