Day 1 - Bringing Eva Home

Howdy all, and welcome to my project blog that will follow my little journey that should take me about a year. I'm embarking on a long project to fully restore a classic Porsche, and outfit it with an all electric drive system. I will try to stay current with this blog and post at least a weekly update. Part of me thinks I'm just doing this to remind me how far a person will go, just for the love of a car (I think I've been here before). In this case, something classic embraces the future, and in the process I hope to save a piece of history that otherwise might surrender to the mighty red worm (aka: rust).

OK, so on 11/15/2010 I brought home my new little girl, a 1966 Porsche 912. I say little because the 1965-67 912's have a much shorter wheel base (called a SWB Porsche) than the newer 911-12's, and have a real compact look. I've named her Eva, for 2 reasons. One, she will be an EV, and two, Wall-e is a pretty darn good waste of 2 hours. (and oddly enough, Wall-e's Eva looks like a 912) She has a lot more rust than I have time for, but it seems like every early Porsche has this problem due to the huge oversight of not galvanizing all of the body panels until 1976. Right now she's Bahama Yellow, but this will change to the Porsche Silver Metallic. This color was available as special order in 1966, but not as a stock option, so it's like we're going back in time to give her a 'special order' paint job.

I'm a little bummed that I have to spend the next couple of months working just to get a good rolling chassis, but then again I'm so picky I doubt I could go out and find exactly what I wanted. Either way, I'm excited to get this project 'rolling'.

So here she is, fresh off the trailer:

And here is a picture of my "goal" car:

Something for me to aspire too. Anyway, enough blogging for me, and time to get to work.