Restoring a 1968 Porsche 911L

Well they say that the 3rd time is a charm and in the case of this repair that was the theme. Since the rear section of the rear quarter was damaged and had been previously metal finished (badly) we decided that we would replace the ENTIRE rear quarter panel from the lockpost to the tailight bucket. As if the others weren't hard enough! At this point we are very proud of this repair because it turned out quite well and a lot of time and effort went into correcting the original problem. Had we had it to do over we would have just replaced the whole fender first. After 3 months and 3 fenders we can now call this repair finished. The car is now being prepared for epoxy primer.

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Silver Star Recycling in Sacramento, CA We were able to locate another 912 this time a 67 with a good rear fender. Here they are cutting up the fender.
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Here is the fender getting some blasting and striping done. Here is the stripped fender. This is the original pot marked and badly finshed fender. This is what we were replacing.
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Here I am beginning my cut of the fender. And slicing.... And cutting ...
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And slicing ... Almost there. Off it goes. And Oh look!! Rust again. We took the time to clean all this up, treat it and seal it.
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The entire section that we could no access was painted with black ZeroRust. Here we are doing a test fit of the fender. Here is the rear section as we spent the time fitting.
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Rear tailight area. Fitting in the lockpost. Here is the bad part. The door gaps were not lining up. One section would through another section out. This went on for weeks.
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Here we are checking the fit for the rear quarter window. This is before I began spot welding the lockpost to the door sill. At one point of fiddling around with it the fender just fell into place and we began tack welding. Here the rear section is tacked in.
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Rear section welded and ground. Now this is nice. Hard to see but the gap is very uniform and consistant. Rear fender like new.


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