More Progress
So, my plan is to eventually go with a two tone look as the interior is already black and white. I want to paint the hood, rear trunk, and roll bar covers all flat black and have the rest of the car flat white. I have a lot of body work to do though, the rear engine lid is a real mess. But... I got to thinking. I also have this project sitting in the shop:
It's a '75 911S field find that I have been slowly working on. I don't plan on really completing it for another year. It's got some really great, faded black paint on it. So I figured that I could just borrow the hood and engine lid for now to go on my '86 Carrera project. First I took the targa bar cover off the '86:
The old cover's thick white paint was peeling off in huge chunks. Fortunately a friend of mine had given me a black targa bar cover. It's been out in the sun way too long and has faded to a real flat black - perfect! I also cleaned up the peeling paint from the vents under the cover and painted them flat black. Here she is with the black cover and black rear engine lid:
And then the front:
Note my little twist to the Porsche emblem on the hood. This is a great emblem too. Normally they are plated gold, but with lots of sun exposure they wear down to a faded silver look, again, perfect!
Borrowing these parts are a big deal to me as they have saved me a lot of time with body work and paint. So I can focus on other aspects of this project for now and go back to finishing these parts later.
Next, I need to get the rear wheels back on, then I want to weigh the car to see how much weight I've managed to drop with the bumper, AC, and muffler removal. I am expecting that the car will be down around 2,600 lbs. After that I'm going to work on fabricating the exhaust tip that will connect to the baffle/cat.
Kirk