Dan's Garage - Porsche Carrera RS (Rebuild) - Yellow
This one is the weekend runabout of an existing customer. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to working on it.
It's a mid-80s Porsche that's been completely and meticulously re-built from the ground up to be a replica of a 73 Carrera RS. Right down to the single stage paint.
The car is photogenic enough, and, with the right attention has the potential to be a real show car. So the owner wanted it to have a good going over and some sealant-based paint protection applied
The car as presented. Looks ok, but there was a lot of oxidation present, so the car felt very rough to touch
Original highlights. Most of this car was re-built with genuine original (and refurbished) Porsche gear of the same era. This is no cheap backyard rebuild.
Exhaust causing some heat damage to the bumper. Fortunately it is only minor and was able to be corrected out
Fuchs wheels, another genuine item, riding on some fat 16" rubber. 255 at the rear, which would have been massive in 1973.
IronX finding a heap of metal particulate contaminants to dissolve off the paintwork. As I said, this paint was rough.
A cleansing foam bath
Along with some special attention to the badgework and other nooks around the car
License plates off to get underneath them
Then two bucket wash
Rinse, dry and into the garage.
The Surface Prep towel got the rest of the oxidation and the paint was starting to feel nice and buttery-smooth again. Under the lights though there was a lot of swirling over the car to correct out
Good paint levels across the car though
So I got to work correcting the single stage paint
Post-correction
Once corrected, the first layer of sealant was applied and she was tucked in for the night
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