1973 911 T

M3Fan wrote: phatsat67 wrote: my 73 911 You have my attention. More on this?

Joel, my 2nd cousin had a 73 911 T that originally came with the mesh o matic or whatever that stupid fake 4 speed was. He had aspirations of restoration when he was younger and rebuild the motor and dumped in a correct 5 speed.

He had kids got divorced worked you know the drill. The car ended up sitting in the same spot as I grew up around it for 13-15 years or so. Was always infatuated by this stick shift silver/primer porsche sitting in the garage. It was a low mileage surprisingly rust free 73 body with Recaro seat option.

At the time my best friend had come into 3-4k over the summer somehow (I forget now). I mowed my great aunts fairly large 2+ acre lawn at the time and worked out a deal for us to have the car if I took care of it no cost for the remaining 3 years of highschool. As soon as we got the go ahead we had to know the brake calipers off to get it to roll. We picked up this little beauty and went to town. Took us about 2 years to completely finish it. It didn't have H4 headlights and looked pretty mundane in its original silver paint so we went with Guards Red against my better judgement of Canary Yellow.

The thing was an absolute blast to drive. It split daily driver duty between Ryan and I in the summers after it was finished. It had AC. We deleted all of the stupid stuff like the Bumprettes on the 73 cars and made it look a bit more true to form. I don't lost a bunch of the pictures on computers long ago but here is one.

The pricing on those cars blew up around 06 when we sold it and we made a profit of about 6500 bucks to split for college money between us (Used mine on a boat haha).

A year after the car was finished my cousin passed away from congestive heart failure but not before he got to drive it again. That was one of the more neat moments of my life thus far. He was fairly passionate about the car but never had the means or time to do it as he would have liked.

I will always remember when I took it out to the house. He and his son were waiting in the driveway. Neither had seen the car since it left the barn a few years before. I rolled up in the driveway and their faces lit up. I jumped out and tossed the keys to Danny and hopped in the back seats. He jumped in the drivers seat and turned that key on the left side just like had time warped 20 years ago. I got to hear a bunch of stories about it as we traversed the roads it traveled way back when. Very cool stuff. There are a couple ok pictures and some people will probably get a good laugh out of high school me in the pictures haha. The dirty work was done at Ryan's dads steel shop but final assembly after paint was handled at our barn (these pictures are in our front garage).






The car also has another interesting story under its belt. Ryan's grandpa is fairly wealthy and collects some pretty serious guns. He gave Ryan a Ruger single 6 .22 wich doesn't sound that impressive. These guns were recalled and a firing pin cover installed that would only let the hammer come in direct contact with the pin if the trigger was pulled. This particular gun hadn't had the recall done because it makes the value of the gun skyrocket over similar pieces.

We had literally just taken the car on its first drive the day before and today after school we were on our way to the pistol range. Ryan had the gun in his lap messing around with some rounds and had the cylinder out making sure they all went in and out properly as it hadn't been shot in some time. He put the loaded cylinder back in and set the gun on safety cock and holstered it.

Right after he holstered it it fired. Nothing seemed to be wrong other than it went off and we were stopped at a light. When the light turned the roadway was just slightly wet at the bottom of the hill after a rain storm. Ryan noticed a little grey circle on his athletic shorts and pulled his shorts up to discover that's where the bullet had entered his leg!!!

He flipped out but I remained fairly cool. After we got straight and a car turned in front of us he was like Stab it (the hospital was on the way to the gun range conveniently ha).

Mind you, I had quite a bit of seat time in higher horsepower cars by the age I was. I dropped the hammer but with the tires still wet and the engine in the back (not having any seat time in a rear engine Porsche) I spun it 90 degrees and almost smashed the fresh bumper on the curb. I saw traffic coming to my left and my friend bleeding to death (We thought at the time haha). I backed up in the direction I wished to be traveling and did a rockford style slide in mid day traffic and continued on my way.

We got to the hospital and the cop on duty informed us that he had called off the chase as we were called in for reckless driving hahaha. He said well we probably have a pretty good reason to which Ryan replied self inflicted gunshot wound! Cop said ok lets get you a wheelchair haha.

Basically all they did was clean it and put a bandaid on it since the bulled had turned to shrapnel when it went through the holster. Only reason we got caught was because we were 15 minutes late for dinner at his parents. They actually damaged his leg more trying to remove the bullet later on without success.

I hope someday to build an RS clone out of a long nose car but the prices on 911s are downright insane right now.

oh come on who hasn't shot them self in a porsche

Cool story. I've been watching and reading about how Porsches are a hot item these days. Can't believe what they are going for at auction.

Just about anything that us baby boomers wanted but couldn't have is worth some bucks today, I should have got a couple of 356's when in high school

My father had two 912, wish I had one of them now.

Used to always let me shift from the passenger seat, fun stuff for a 9 year old kid

Hahahhaha, doesn't feel that interesting Steve.

Yeah haha! I am pretty stickler on gun safety. I don't mess with them much but weather I know for a fact one is or isn't loaded it always gets opened up to confirm yes or no any time I pick it up. I mostly play with shot guns but I have a couple cool hand guns that never see the light of day and aren't loaded primarily because it's hard to find 357 rounds.

Hollywood wrote: oh come on who hasn't shot them self in a porsche

Or someone else......

Riley wrote: A lot of people considered them glorified VWs back then.

That's because they were Bruce. VW which is the parent company backed out of the agreement. VW was to sell the 4 cylinder model that used a type IV 411 engine and the Porsche model was the 914/6 with a 911 engine. 914/6's were not sold in the numbers the 4 was,so naturally the law of supply and demand apply