A naked car

Some shots below of various activities over the past 2 weeks.

First, the top. I had thought long about removing the top. I had initially considered that I should leave it on to make sure the gaps of doors, bodywork and windows were all correct, but in hindsight (and also noting the fact that a replaement top is upwards of $10k USD, I thought, perhaps, it might be kind of stupid,, so off it came. Damage was really not too bad, although the pirvot plate on the left side door pillar came off in my hands through the rust.

Apart from that, no major dramas. In fact, most of the disassembly has been rather straightforward. The Porsche manual, Ron Rowlands book and some of Kellog's book make the process enjoyable.

Next the windscreen. There are many articles on the Registry about this removal, people losing fingers, fingerprints, other bits of anatomy, much swearing, etc. But in this case it was ridiculousty straightforward.

The oringal windscreen has long gone, some time before 1969, and was replaced byt a screen from a long defunct company, Shat-R-Pruf. This screen is about 1/4 inch shorter than the original Sigla glass which accounts for the balls up caulking on the front, but considering all of the original repair work was done in the 60's with existing technology, it really wasn't that bad a job. Putting it back together will be most interesting though.

Swoopy looking car minus windscreen:

The long struts down either side of the dash came out without any issues, and the nuts jolding them underneath came off remarkably easy.  There is a tension rod in the middle of the screen which need to come out as well.

As a followup, all of the electrics under the dash are now out, wrapped in foil and race tape and tucker up under the dash. I tagged all of thw ires prior to this as well as finalized the schematics. The foil should give some protection during the metal work, and the wrap protects the tags on the wiring. If those come off, I am hooped.

So, as a quick and dirty update, thats where we are. The car is coming into final disassembly, parts cataloged, many diagrams, thousands of pictures and 50 pages of notes, so far.

Disassembly is very straightforward, just requing a bit of thought, heat, note taking and lots of PB Blaster.

The interesting part will commence in 3 week with the sand blasting. Full pics of that and the reassembly going forward.

Cheers,

Mexican Grand Prix tonight,, off to the beers.