Yes I still come on here now and again! I still get email notifications so pop on here to have a look around when something looks interesting... Still seems to be the same people talking up RS prices, seems to be working!
I did get a frosty welcome back in the day, I think the guy selling it got a lot of stick and then that carried over to me when I bought it, but then I was young and foolish and generally wound lots of people up!
I bought it from a guy up north, he had it on EBay, I think I paid about £11K for it!
It had been repaired really poorly. It had 3.2 front wings and lights, steel bonnet and generally had been bashed about, it had probably been smashed up when it was raced and then again by Matt on the road!
After I blasted around in it for about 6 months it underwent a bare metal restoration, complete nut and bolt resto. Kelvin at Porsche Reading helped with some of the harder to find items up the front end, the ABS was shot and needed new parts and I got a pair of new 964 wings and had them rolled. They still did/do Ali bonnets so that was easy. Back in 2004/5 the factory still had quite a few NOS items from the 964 Cup programme, none of the parts were listed on their computers, it was all done off the original paper 964 Cup parts catalogue at Weissach. I doubt there's anything left now. Then one of the Porsche factory/warehouse burned down and it became really hard to even get things like new 964 rear light clusters and centre panel, I waited about 2 years for them! The earlier 70's and 80's parts were hit hardest as Porsche had to re-tool to produce the parts.
The chassis had to go on a jig and get straightened out, luckily the front end was only slightly out of shape. The front wings, front end and bonnet took most of the brunt. Cup shocks went off to Bilstein to be rebuilt and the rest of the suspension and brakes calipers etc were all mostly original, just needed stripping and rebuilding. Resto probably took about 6/7 years to complete.
It had a 993 fuel tank which got changed for an original NOS 964 item. New discs, pads etc were easy, I think the same as the 964 Turbo, obviously had all new fuel lines, brake lines which were a mess, and a set of correct 9.5 and 8 x 17 wheels (they still have these at the factory I think)
Engine and gearbox had a full rebuild, it was all matching numbers. Martin at 964 database has all the details, it's probably listed on his site somewhere. I think I may have sent him some photos near the end of the resto about 4/5 years ago.
It now sits in a collection, (I know how you all hate garage queens) but it's immaculate now and hasn't done any mileage since it was completed, but it does get to sit next to a 964 3.8 RSR and a 288 GTO.
No doubt I'll continue to drop in on the forum now and again and in 10 more years everyone will be wondering why they didn't buy more RS's when they were "˜only' £200,000"¦
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