So Scott finished that and Kevin Zagar notified us yesterday that the suspension and brake kits wentout in a crate yesterday and it looks like delivery is next Thursday. I know Scott is getting anxious to get going and make some progress.
Oh, ya, I have decided to go with covering my 911 seats in grey leather rather than black. I stumbled onto a supplier from MA, https://www.lseat.com/categori...leather/porsche.html. The price and quality seems right for this project. Not everything has to be top shelf, though I do have a friend in DC thay put these into his 250k mile ‘80 Targa and he sent me photos.
The medium grey seems to work better with all the grey cloth in there now and the better comfort of the 911 seats should be a welcome addition once I get back inside of this thing.
Wow.... Those are great prices for new seat covers.
Are you planning to be bringing this to Carlisle, Rich?
Lane, as for bringing the Ghia, it might be nice to do, but timing might be tight.
I’ve been focused on putting these wheels on for a few months. Finally did some Photoshopping to see how they look. I love ‘em.
They look good, Rich. But Italian wheels on a German car? 
Italian wheels on a German car designed by Italians. Works for me, though I am getting backlash by many others. In this particular case, I’m going with my gut feeling that I like the combo.
If it tickles your fancy, do it. I'm with you Rich.....
Wisco Ricky:
I think your artistic acumen and eye for design pretty much mean that your choice will be amenable to who counts, and that of course is you.
I like em' as well, but I don't count.
Your money, your car, go get em!
In 1974 Porsche 914 had a bumble bee (black and yellow) and a creamsicle (ivory and orange) special edition. They used painted Mahle alloys -- but you could use the italian Pedrini's that near identical and are more readily available. They are std VW 4 bolt though.
Then there's always 5 spoke Fuch's that you can never go wrong with. They look really good on a lowered Ghia.
As a "Fan Boy" of Fuchs 5-spokes on just about anything (well, maybe not on a Yugo or Trabant), let me say that I really like those wheels you've chosen, Rich. Right shade of Charcoal (or whatever it is), too. Any darker would look weird agains the red of the body.
Good choice!
I may see my car out from under the cover in another three months...(sigh)...
A bubch of us faced off on the SOC FB page last night and today. Most of you here were threre. The fact that I fell in love with these wheels had a lot to do with the fact that they actually fit the guidelines set by Kevin Zagar. Of course there are plenty of other wheels that I like and may have looked cool. The problem was that most didn’t fit. Now, I have to keep my fingers crossed that Tire Rack doesn’t sell the last set in America by the time I call on Monday when my charge card billing cycle starts again. I need a good tax refund to help me out of this problem.
In the spirit of other cars we have or have had. I was thinking of a VW Beetle I had that we installed a Corvair flat 6 air cooled engine into. The engine was built to run in reverse of it's normal direction to work with the VW transaxle. We had other conversions like this that we flipped the ring and pinion in the transaxle instead. I remember the stock VW gearing wasn't the best match for the Corvair engine. This engine shown in the VW pictured put out about 160 HP and 140 ft/lbs of torque. The reverse rotating engine caused oil to be thrown out the crank case vent tube. This was something of a problem if I remember correctly.
That's similar to the engine I had in a Deserter Dune Buggy, back in the day. I flipped the R&P on mine so I never had the oil belching issues but it was a lot of engine for stock transaxles back then. Used it mostly for Autocross and had to do a bit to the pan suspension to get it to handle, but eventually it became a terror on the track. The Northeast SCCA got too many complaints from people that got beat so they created a "Kit Car/Modified" class for it (E modified, IIRC - I think Piperato runs his Spyder in that class) so I ended up racing against myself or for FTD. Not a lot of fun after that so I sold it to a kid in Connecticut. That was around 1972.
E mod is basically a tube frame car/race car. Non-production. SCCA doesn't care if it's a replica or not, only that it is non-production and tube frame. Where we differ on the Spyder from original is fiberglass rather than aluminum but that would probably still run the same class.
I believe that is how Carey and Co. does vintage racing with the 904: tube frame/fiberglass body(as original) and the original 904 had a 4, 6, and 8 in it originally.
All I remember was a lady Veterinarian from a couple towns over who would complain to the officials as soon as I showed up. Before my Deserter came along she always used to win her class (Under 2.5 liters) and was more than a little upset when she started losing (wicked pissed doesn't begin to describe it.....Vocal, too). She was good, but in a Dune Buggy, I had a driving brake and a lotta torque!
After they put me in that other class (all by myself, back then) all I could shoot for was fastest time of the day and then I was competing against someone with a Lotus Seven - My God, but that thing could handle an Autocross track... That's when it wasn't as much fun so I quit.
Houston, we have lift off. Scott kept himself busy and has the body raised up. He claims it came off fairly easy and so far things look pretty good on the pan. So, tomorrow, the suspension and brakes are finally going to be delivered, after sitting in Chicago since last Wednesday.
Looks pretty dern good.
