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Before purchase / June 25, 2026 / 1:36

1973 Porsche 911 SBefore the engine work

A look under the engine lid before preparation, and Bob’s approach to preserving its character.

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0:00Okay, so I'm a little reticent to show you this but I will what the hell

0:06so engine compartment

0:09engine

0:11Incredibly original wonderfully original. So this is the before

0:18You might say oh good gosh

0:20Anyway, it's super easy to clean this up clean up the fan housing, etc

0:27The amazing thing is this is all the original stuff. So super easy

0:34You can see the engine bay is

0:37untouched

0:40Everything is here even these incredibly rare

0:45hand screws for the the fuse cover

0:48even more rare

0:50these are

0:52plastic little wingnuts

0:54They always always always die

0:58What we would end up doing would be just cleaning everything up. The red shroud would just come back to life

1:04All of this would be

1:06Satin powder coated so that everything looked very very nice

1:12everything would just be detailed etc and

1:16The engine bay would be commensurate with the rest of the car

1:20So I don't want to restore everything because it just wouldn't look right. The car is original. It's not restored

1:28So it's got this area has to show that. Hey, I've got about a hundred thousand miles on me