My Cars: 1981 Porsche 924 Turbo Series 1 LHD

This Series 1 924 Turbo was first registered in Sardinia in 1980. I bought it in the UK and it is on HMRC NOVA, but not UK registered as it has not been MOT’d.
The previous owner brought it to the UK in 2010 to have the unique 924 Turbo gearbox repaired but could not afford to have the work done at the time so left it here. When the storage bills got too high, he passed it on to the garage owner and I bought it from the garage on eBay in 2012 as a project car, still needing a gearbox rebuild.
The car is a 1980 LHD non sunroof Series 1 924 Turbo. Came off UK eBay with Italian reg plates. Bought unseen from a guy in Norfolk, turned out to be quite solid but the low quality repaint from a previous owner was shot to pieces. I had it MOT’d for a fail list and then Rob at Racing Restorations in Worcestershire stripped it and gave it a full repaint in original Porsche L97a Diamond Silver. High quality prep and materials lead to a great job so am quite happy with that.
My MOT list included a noisy wheel bearing, no horn, wiper blades worn out, play in the steering rack end bush and some other stuff. I like the clean side profile and the single mirror. It is at home now, sitting on my lift, and I have put it back together after paint.
The current issue is that the fuel tank has rusted from being left outside in a field at the garage, so the expensive in-tank pump and secondary pump have also rusted. The car therefore does not run so well. There is still some other work to do also but we will get there…
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