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My accomplice is a 1979 911SC. I stumbled into her in 2014, after the previous owner drug her out of 15 years of unplanned storage - and had been deferring maintenance and generally abusing her - like you did with throw-away G-bodies in the nineties - to use in trade on a used 2010. I spotted her on the back lot, awaiting consignment to a wholesaler because the Porsche dealership didn't know what to do with a not-showroom-ready vintage car. I knew what to do... Sadly, the PO provided no provenance info, and specified that he didn't want to be contacted by subsequent owners. On the plus-side, the condition of the vehicle and lack of history gave me a blank-slate and free license: I'm making a "greatest hits" mix-tape of a Porsche. Though on a more plebeian budget than the usual suspects (SVD, Kage, Gunther, etc). Since starting our relationship, I've had the engine out for a top-end rebuild (by Mike Mulligan, now @ Werks11), and had a full, panels off, glass-out repaint in GT Silver (vice the original Silver metallic). Joe Leggs at Rennaissance now helps keep her running day-to-day. Shaved/filled the antenna-hole on the wing and the SC badge-holes on the rear deck. Added Wevo engine & trans mounts. After being sideswiped in 2019, I opted to replace the impact bumpers with Ruf's front-and-rear covers. Added Dansk 2-out exhaust. Replaced standard H4 headlamp lenses with cleaner, rounded Bosch 4487 lenses from John Audette and LED bulbs from Stedi. Replaced elephant-ear mirrors with aeros (wiring was a MF'er). Mirrors and side-stripes in Gulf Racing blue. Satin silver and black "monochrome" hood badge. Starting to ceracote bits in grey to blend with the faded-black anodizing of the exterior door handles. Most recently, I replaced the 6/7" Fuchs with RSR-style Fuchs in 16" x 7/8. I dropped the discharged and anemic factory a/c in favor of a Classic Retrofit blower (a/c unnecessary in SoCal, mostly), and since she's registered in Florida ("home") I don't have to worry about CA smog. So I put the smog-pump in a box. Replaced the torpedo-fuse panels with a modern unit from Adapt Motorsport(semicolon) grabbed their billet pulley-half and matching sump-cover. Classic Retrofit mappable CDI+, Lightweight Antigravity battery. WOSP alternator to support the eventual a/c upgrade(semicolon) blasted and clear-ceracoted the 225mm cooling fan. Turbo tie-rods and lower valve covers. Replaced front struts - which were originally Bogue but had KYB - with Bilstein B6 units. Achtung Kraft air-box cover. Heat-system backdate, titanium cross-member, and miscellaneous Ti fasteners to finish cleaning-up the engine bay. In the cockpit, I pulled out the floor carpets so you can see my hand-refinished floorboards, and used custom shortened wool Cocomats. Removed the (ugly, unnecessary) a/c center console along with the vintage Clifford alarm. Ruf pedals. Ditched the broken '90s Alpine stereo for a Becker I had from a previous 996. 917-style wood shift knob by Dave Mason and a Schaltwerk shift kit. Alternate between KeyLow and FormaWerx keys depending on mood. Aluminum switchgear. Powder-blue seatbelts to match the sides and mirrors. Vintage Abarth steering wheel. Charcoal alcantara headliner. Seats were shot: redone with new leather and pin-striped Sport-Tex vis a vis the new 911R(semicolon) matching door-cards with pocket and lock-knob delete, accentuated with custom aluminum Achtung Kraft door pulls. Tach is refaced as an Omega Speedmaster Racing tribute in "GT-style" grey with yellow needle. LED gauge lighting.