Restoration Update 11/28/15:
Well it has almost been 4 months to the day since my last update. I saw the car briefly yesterday and Matt has it pretty close. Other than for some odds and ends that are NLA (like the right and left carpet liners for the trunk!) the car is virtually finished. Would you believe even the shifter bezels are NLA now? Fortunately we have some clean ones laying around but unbelieveable... Anyways if I get done dealing with all my wife's Christmas lights and decorations early enough today I am going to run back up to Matt's and see if we can take it out on it's first shake down run today. It also needs a good wash as with 4 months or so worth of dust sitting on it right now the 744 is not really looking like Brilliant Silver Metallic but more like a Matte Grey. Anyways if or when I do I will post some more pictures and maybe some videos. This has been a long and arduous project so I'm actually having a bit of a hard time comprehending that I am actually going to have a car I can drive after all this. Woohoo!!!
Well it has almost been 4 months to the day since my last update. I saw the car briefly yesterday and Matt has it pretty close. Other than for some odds and ends that are NLA (like the right and left carpet liners for the trunk!) the car is virtually finished. Would you believe even the shifter bezels are NLA now? Fortunately we have some clean ones laying around but unbelieveable... Anyways if I get done dealing with all my wife's Christmas lights and decorations early enough today I am going to run back up to Matt's and see if we can take it out on it's first shake down run today. It also needs a good wash as with 4 months or so worth of dust sitting on it right now the 744 is not really looking like Brilliant Silver Metallic but more like a Matte Grey. Anyways if or when I do I will post some more pictures and maybe some videos. This has been a long and arduous project so I'm actually having a bit of a hard time comprehending that I am actually going to have a car I can drive after all this. Woohoo!!!
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. I figured the 1st gear start valve body would make a notable difference but I could not believe how easily the car could still break loose with an LSD and set of 275's. Needless to say it seemed very happy to be back on the road after nearly a two year hiatus. Anyways more to come as we are more or less just getting down to some odds and ends. In short I'm really looking forward to some early Saturday and Sunday morning extended shake down drives in the coming weeks (weather permitting of course).
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