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Saving a Vintage Porsche 911 Targa from the Scrapyard! :Rebuild Part 1

Feb 27, 2020
What's going on? I just want to reduce myself. I'm Michael, these are my channel budget invoices. I know there are a lot of other automotive channels, people make some really cool builds, but I just want to show you one way. to have fun on a budget. I'm a local boat mechanic here in upstate South Carolina, I have a wife and three kids so I had to make this cut on the side and it's really inexpensive so I've got some fun and different vehicles. In fact, I have a cool one that we just picked up. It's a 1974 Porsche 911 Targa, but I got it from a local junkyard for five hundred dollars, so I want to do it with all of you today. show you all this construction and move on, so our plan now is to hook up the truck to the trailer, let's go out, pick up this car and bring it home so we can work on it, okay guys, here it is. our 1974 Fortune 911 Targa, yes it's tough but this is one of my dream cars and we are going to

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this sucker, as you can see it has a nice creak in the fender and looks like it was probably pushed. by a tractor or something because I think the skirts are very straight on this car and it has some rust on the doors, but overall the rockers are very solid, some dents and dings were removed to straighten them out and it has this really cool stainless steel .
saving a vintage porsche 911 targa from the scrapyard rebuild part 1
Targa cover there and a little creak in the fender, but in that quarter, but it won't really matter when we have a wide body, this sucker, some dents and dings, yes it's a tough little car, but I love a challenge and I think this will be a lot of fun and I hope it's something you guys enjoy. Someone really wanted those gauges, so we'll have to do a little bit with that: These doors are rusty, but the rocker again looks pretty good on this side and these fenders. crushed, but the valance looks very straight, it looks very solid underneath and the front valance looks very good, someone tried to get into that hood at one point and really screwed it up, that's something we'll have to find, but This is a one of the really interesting things about this car and well, there's an engine transmission in its intake that broke and I already tried turning that sucker a little by hand and it did, it just seemed to work. move freely, so there's a good chance we can take that engine out.
saving a vintage porsche 911 targa from the scrapyard rebuild part 1

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It's a 2.7 capable of taking that thing out and

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ing it and I know if you can tell us white right now, but the original color of this car. it's the metallic ice green which is an absolutely fantastic color for these so let me know what you think and what we should do with it. Okay guys, now that you've seen this beauty, let's break it down a bit. A little bit, clean it up and see what we work with. Well guys I popped this hood up as you can see it's a shame the hood was in pretty good shape other than where they trashed it there and I wanted to clean it up. a little more, but I want to get some gloves because she has some friends living there.
saving a vintage porsche 911 targa from the scrapyard rebuild part 1
There is a bit of wiring left. I don't think that's a problem. We're going to redo all the wiring. this car and it's cool, it has a little tag on it, look it's a 911 Model G, you see a little more of that beautiful ice green metallic look, the plan for this car is to come back with that, that's awesome and even right here we have a little to us, but it doesn't look bad, most of it comes from the hood and it was cleaned up a little on this interior, it doesn't look too bad and the floor is actually very good on this car, pretty good, someone was obviously a person more low. who owned this car before made some custom seat boxes it's a bit silly and he saw it before and saw someone move the steering wheel and cut there so it'll be fun this is a factory car with air conditioning you see there, yes, it is a project. definitely a big one, just some random little pieces we found, this is a cool cover so it will be really nice to have some nice interior pieces, some custom seat covers that will definitely be nice again, guys I went ahead and cleaned some more underneath from this trunk.
saving a vintage porsche 911 targa from the scrapyard rebuild part 1
Here I'll show you what we have underneath and I want to go and take out a couple of these dents so we can get some things out of the car and go ahead and take out. These rockers are going to see what we have, they are not the best things, very nice, rest frame here, this apron looks super straight. I think this one is bent a little bit, but we're going to try to get it out a little bit and everything is great. realistically solid and a little surface rust here and there but everything looks very straight and I've had a good rest there on the right side there's a little nest and you can see that cereal label let's give it a real try . quick to get this out, get that little dent out, let's take these rockers out to see how bad they are and we'll try to get this out real quick, these fenders are practically toast, but I just wanted to get them out so we can get all the boats out of here to get these fenders off .
Yeah, I really don't know what I'm doing to make it look better. It should at least give us enough room to get all the screws out of there and you can see. she's pretty clean underneath here. I'm good enough now that these fenders are practically toast. I'll drive it crazy and try to do something with them, but they probably need to be replaced. One thing I might consider doing is Going back to like the '73, an older body style or at least here in the front and this long nose thing with the small bumper, guys tell me what you think, that's something I should do Okay guys, as you can see, I removed that rocker cover.
And man, these things look good, they're super solid, super clean and extremely nice, so I've been looking at some singer stuff and I know one thing they do is run those without the rocker covers, kind of like something that I'm thinking. About, let me know what you think if that's something you'd like to see. Thank you all so much for watching. Be sure to subscribe. Hit the notification bell if you want to see more about this series. Next time we do this, we will be. Taking this engine out to see what we can do with it, be sure to hit the like button.
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