Yesterday I drove my 951 for the first time in nearly
six years.
The poor thing was sitting in my sister's garage for 5 years after I couldn't afford to pay for an MoT failure of epic proportions.
Thankfully, the decision to keep the car rather than cash it in for sod-all has paid off - following a few months at Cotswold Porsche Specialists it's back on the road and I think driving better than at any point in my 13-year ownership.
Took it for a blat up the M5 at lunchtime and it was
most exhilarating. [
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Some of the main things that have been done to get it back on the road:
- New Brakes (disks, calipers, backing plates, pipes, pads, handbrake & cables)
- New power steering cooling pipe & reservoir
- New steering rack
- New rear suspension
- New fuel pipes & tank strap
- NS Sill replacement
- Half a respray! (the other half will come when I do the OS sill)
- New belts
- Lots of new seals + some new pulleys
- Water hose replacement
- Various new wiring and other electrical bits
Chuffed to bits... and thrilled to have ensured another x years of life for the car - I hate to see
any old Porsche flogged off for spares.
Here's "during" and "after"...