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Despite getting attached to her I've had her over a year now and I'm thinking about saying goodbye to my 924. I've spent a fair few quid on her and 100s if not 1000s of hours of work! Took 10 months of graft to get her on the road.
As she currently is, excuse shoddy pics it's p1ssing down.
A very reliable 924 (just done 3000 miles in a week), and a GPS proven 109mph on Autobahn and still pulling with two blokes, tools, luggage and spares. 2 litre 125bhp engine, 5spd manual, RWD, 50/50 weight distribution all the usual 924 goodness. Have some old receipts and stuff but no real service history. Mileage is shown as about 28k, presume 128k as it stops at 100k. 1981 W-reg, the fully galvanized version.
MOT until August 08, about 3 months tax. Flew through the MOT, all it needed was the tyres.
New parts - four new tryes (3k old), new front pads, new alternator belt, new oil filter and oil change, new air filter, new plugs, dizzy cap and leads, flushed the rad and topped up with antifreeze. Refurbed alternator. Refurbed alloys with Porsche centres. Spare has legal tire but could do with a repaint.
Exterior - rollered red paintwork, looks OK but obviously not as good as full 3 grand respray. With some rubbing down and G3 it would probably look a lot better still. Bonnet vent, air intake routed to wing (mods to help it manage in Rome). Still has the Home2Rome Stickers on. Dewipered boot, spring catches on boot for race look.
Interior - In good nick for year, repaired seats, dash has usual cracks and the passenger window died last week but think it's just the connector fell of the motor. Have a spare working motor if not. Fitted with a small wheel but have the original Porsche one with it but it's brown and interior is black hence the change. Comes with boot roller blind thing, jack and one of those extendable wheel wrenches.
Currently it needs a patch on the exhaust where it rubbed on the driveshaft and has temporary earth strap on alternator that works just looks a bit untidy. Also the heater is bit poor not sure if just got an air block or blocked with crud. The fan runs though.
Prior to stickers:
Dog not included. Shows original Porsche Wheel.
With the sporty wheel, great at speed, makes parking a keep fit exercise.
Intake in wing:
Bonnet vent over exhaust manifold:
Have removed the "my other cars a Porsche" and the web address stickers, but left the H2R numbers.
I have no idea what it's worth as these go for such a wide range of prices, and whilst not concours it's a very sound reliable one unlike a lot on ebay. Spent 100s of hours on electrics alone, remaking ends and cleaning up contacts, new battery terminals, earth leads etc. You could either strip it for a track car, repaint it, or matt black the bonnet, slam it and go racing.
My mate who did the Rally loves it as well and will kill me if it goes too cheap (but his Wife will kill me if I let him buy it). Make me an offer. £500-600 and it'll probably go, otherwise I'll probably hang on, strip it out and track day it. £600-£700 and you get a spare engine, radiator and fan with it and bootfull of other spares (carpets, heater matrix, throttle body, fuel pumps, brake servo & reservoir, washer reservoir, fuse board, headlamp motor, front bumper, interior bits and bobs, 2 centre consoles, 2 sets of arm rests, spare set sun visors, another spare wheel with shoddy tyre etc).
Any interest? Might be willing to swap for some other interesting car with an MOT?
As she currently is, excuse shoddy pics it's p1ssing down.
A very reliable 924 (just done 3000 miles in a week), and a GPS proven 109mph on Autobahn and still pulling with two blokes, tools, luggage and spares. 2 litre 125bhp engine, 5spd manual, RWD, 50/50 weight distribution all the usual 924 goodness. Have some old receipts and stuff but no real service history. Mileage is shown as about 28k, presume 128k as it stops at 100k. 1981 W-reg, the fully galvanized version.
MOT until August 08, about 3 months tax. Flew through the MOT, all it needed was the tyres.
New parts - four new tryes (3k old), new front pads, new alternator belt, new oil filter and oil change, new air filter, new plugs, dizzy cap and leads, flushed the rad and topped up with antifreeze. Refurbed alternator. Refurbed alloys with Porsche centres. Spare has legal tire but could do with a repaint.
Exterior - rollered red paintwork, looks OK but obviously not as good as full 3 grand respray. With some rubbing down and G3 it would probably look a lot better still. Bonnet vent, air intake routed to wing (mods to help it manage in Rome). Still has the Home2Rome Stickers on. Dewipered boot, spring catches on boot for race look.
Interior - In good nick for year, repaired seats, dash has usual cracks and the passenger window died last week but think it's just the connector fell of the motor. Have a spare working motor if not. Fitted with a small wheel but have the original Porsche one with it but it's brown and interior is black hence the change. Comes with boot roller blind thing, jack and one of those extendable wheel wrenches.
Currently it needs a patch on the exhaust where it rubbed on the driveshaft and has temporary earth strap on alternator that works just looks a bit untidy. Also the heater is bit poor not sure if just got an air block or blocked with crud. The fan runs though.
Prior to stickers:
Dog not included. Shows original Porsche Wheel.
With the sporty wheel, great at speed, makes parking a keep fit exercise.
Intake in wing:
Bonnet vent over exhaust manifold:
Have removed the "my other cars a Porsche" and the web address stickers, but left the H2R numbers.
I have no idea what it's worth as these go for such a wide range of prices, and whilst not concours it's a very sound reliable one unlike a lot on ebay. Spent 100s of hours on electrics alone, remaking ends and cleaning up contacts, new battery terminals, earth leads etc. You could either strip it for a track car, repaint it, or matt black the bonnet, slam it and go racing.
My mate who did the Rally loves it as well and will kill me if it goes too cheap (but his Wife will kill me if I let him buy it). Make me an offer. £500-600 and it'll probably go, otherwise I'll probably hang on, strip it out and track day it. £600-£700 and you get a spare engine, radiator and fan with it and bootfull of other spares (carpets, heater matrix, throttle body, fuel pumps, brake servo & reservoir, washer reservoir, fuse board, headlamp motor, front bumper, interior bits and bobs, 2 centre consoles, 2 sets of arm rests, spare set sun visors, another spare wheel with shoddy tyre etc).
Any interest? Might be willing to swap for some other interesting car with an MOT?
