Barn Find: Classic Porsche 912 Restoration -- /DRIVE CLEAN 

Bob Ross for cars

Preach

Totally!!!!

Jacob Root the music

asmr

***** Not sure I'd use the word always.

Touche sir. My reading skills betray me yet again.

Thx bud!

AMMO NYC you're the best on the net bro.

AMMO NYC Agreed! You're the best RU-vidr. My Honda civic looks like a Ferrari :) Well at least I treated it the same process and when i drive it, It feels like a Ferrari ;) Other then the torque difference. But still!

+yyyy2999 That's exactly what I was thinking lmao.

It's staged for the video made for us viewers.

he said can we open it not is it open...

The garage door, not the door on the car.

A shame they carry on to YT TV's format for making shows. Kinda dumb.

I cringed so hard. smh dude

I was thinking the exact same thing! another show I watch is where the "deadline" is ALWAYS 4 weeks. UGH

Has anyone considered they got certain shots after events had happened and edit them in earlier for better framing and viewing. Is it open couldve been how it was shot, once the opened it the camera guy went in and got stock footage of he car in the dark garage as stock footage to use later... or are you people too dumb to consider such things?

As someone who has restored cars, the deadline aspect is total baloney. If any owner gives you a deadline, you should refuse the job.

when you find something like thief, do you first inflate the tires to roll it? I'd think they would be flat after all of those years

I was thinking the same thing

almost all german manufacturers do this

Yep, my BMW is 2010, bought it in 2009 new.

all manufacturers do this (FTFY)

the owner seems like an idiot.

lovexsqualor it's considered paint restoration

Smells Hollywooded to me.

Example number xx,xxx of why 'nothing is ever good enough for online car people'

lovexsqualor it’s something like exterior reconditioning

lovexsqualor it’s a paint restoration

watch all his videos, this was nothing, his attention to detailing gets insane

+Joe Smith Ghosts are ridiculously bad at conveying understandable messages. I think it won't do your friends or your cars a lot of good to be haunted. But hey, it's just a Porsche, they're not so rare. The maddest recent vehicle barn were a couple of Buran spacecraft, which now makes all 3 accounted for (one was crushed into pieces by accident), which were lost because the actual barn they were in disappeared off the property lists and was a secret object. This was a Russian Shuttle-like spacecraft which promised to be highly economical due to not being shot up by a rocket, but launching from the top of a special aeroplane, but the programme was cancelled for various reasons, among those because it wasn't deemed safe enough, in spite of a successful round-trip. The heat shield damage on re-entry was deemed a bit too risky. Evidently, similar risks existed in US Space Shuttle but were ignored at the time.

Have you seen how horrible some nieces could be at neglecting oil changes in Fords under 5 years old let alone maintaining a decades old Porsche? Well I don't know, maybe it could have been better but it certainly could have been worse!

You're also not considering that when the car was parked it was not as valuable as it is today. The owner may of had intentions to repair or do work to the car to allow them to drive it without doing permanent and irreparable damage to the car but never got back to it.

Makes it worth more money

Ever been old and infirm and possibly stricken with dementia? Plenty of folks get this way and at that point the dusty old toys they played with in their youth can lose their importance.

posing for the camera

He is a professional detailer anything he touches he can fix, and once you wax a car the wax is an armor that protects the paint of the car. Someone who doesn't know how to properly detail a car would be scared to touch it, like yourself.

And brake hoses etc etc.

Indeed. As someone who just brought his 911 back from a 7 yr idle period, I can attest that the tires need replacing. After having my gas tank cleaned, and oil and brake fluid changed, I thought I could get by on my old 8-10 yo tires. They were badly flat-spotted and felt like driving on rocks. I had my car towed in and the above repairs done before I ever would have started it. I cringed at the final seconds of this video therefore. I realize mechanicals were not the point of this video, but some brief mention of them would have been in order here to warn people to be careful.

The point of the video is more the detailing work, rather than the mechanicals. The detailing guy's job is to make the car look as good as possible, and he's catering to the whims of someone who's blowing a lot of cash on having people restore his barn find car. Those types of people tend to be very image-aware, and how the detail guy talks about his process and planning and all that jazz is definitely tuned to telling his clients in a way they're comfortable with why his cleaning and polishing job is worth their money. While both he and his client know that those tires need replacing if that thing's gonna be driven, the detail guy's job is to make the car look good. Even if he knows those tires are going to basically be used to roll the thing into a shop and be immediately tossed, the owner will winge about them and think less of the detail guys work. It's functionally wasted effort to ensure that the owner doesn't have any apprehension that the detail guy cut corners.

The purpose of leaving the ancient tires on is to provide evidence of originality. When the car reaches its "forever" home, the owner can swap out rims and tires.

I bought from an Authorised Main Ferrari Dealer, a 19 year old low mileage Ferrari. It had about 16,000 on it. The dealer carried out a full service as part of the purchase cost. The dealer had organised a 3,500 mile trip to Monaco & back via other places in Europe, after 1500 miles the inner cords on all four tyres were showing!! We had been driving at very fast speeds. The car had to be left in Switzerland as it was undriveable on the worn out tyres. but it was cheaper to recover it back to the UK, before fitting four new tyres!!! The perfect looking tyres were the originals. The moral here is don’t trust a dealer to go to the expense of renewing tyres on low mileage old classic cars!!! This was an expensive trip as that same dealer refused to pay towards the cost to recover the car!! Nor towards the tyres! From this and other expenditure through lack of use I now will not entertain the purchase of low-mileage classic cars!! Cars need regularly being driven and maintenance based on age not mileage.

i honestly dont think soo

+Karl Glenn It doesent sound like him but definetly looks a little bit alike

Maybe we can get those two to meet get linus' pink car all shined up

Since you mentioned that, Tunnel bear!

haha you made me laugh XD good on ya!

'thats weird' umm..no? the industry still works like this

I was thinking the same thing. That's how all model years work. lol

Really weird that car guys wouldn’t know this. Ever heard of a fiscal year guys?

Yes the factory closes in mid June goes on vacation until august and start the next year models

It was different then for Porsche.

lol

Would love it!

i second that....way better then whats currently on tv

thirded... soo much better than the garbage on tv, only problem is that the network people will try to interfere because they think there needs to be more drama to keep the masses entertained :(

Chris Turko Dude as much as I love cars, there is more to life than buffing cars. Taking out a brain tumor without killing a patient is artistry not buffing cars.

These people show there inexperience when they don't know what a wool buffing pad does.

Majority of the trolls are still in school, they have no idea how the real world works.

+PuppetMaster well, it's still not restored, just cleaned and waxed...

+Mykle Bust This isn't the restoration itself, he said that in the video. This is them cleaning it up to see what exactly they are dealing with. As a barn find, they did this to see weather or not it's worth the time and money to restore...

This is the ultimate restoration as it still remained in its original condition. Very few cars actually have a perfect restoration and most of the car is replaced.

It's a paint restoration, thus it checks out. Some of their titles could use just a little improvement.

He just wool padded the entire car, what the hell are you talking about.. Oh shit you guys don't know what a wool buffing pad is, you guys just get your information from car magazines while sipping free coffee in a Jiffy Lube waiting room.

Mostly likely he did clean the engine and other mechanicals, but this was already a 30 minute video which is much longer then his usual videos. It takes a lot of work and a lot of time to edit and optimize a video. I bet the engine cleaning was behind the scenes, considering he already has a video dedicated to cleaning an engine. But yea, I was a bit surprised to, especially when he was like "woaaahhh, look at all these cob webs!" haha.

Maybe back in 2012. Even junky 912s are getting REALLY pricey these days. For 14k, you're not finding a runner, let alone a clean one. Expect to pay 20+ these days.

Naw, I did a Hemmings search the day I posted the comment.

CurseTheDawn Check um out now bub.... They ain't $14,000 no more!!!

Water is expensive

Philip Cooper You clearly don't know what happens to neglected paint nor have you even opened a hood of a car; I hope you're some mindless troll but simply washing it doesn't restore the fresh Irish green paint that it has when it came out of the factory

It's a 2 year old comment so if he comes back I'll be surprised. Still, just in case: Rain doesn't include polishing. If you want your car paint to look dull then OK, fine; that's your choice but to say "save a buck" and expect the same result won't work.

Nickhead87 but he did not restore it.

But I am soooo.....

Well maybe I don't have a RU-vid channel, but I consider myself well off and successful.

Good point but he polished it afterwards.

The spirit apparently

This is a true restoration. All its originality remains. Any replacements means it is not an original.

nope, true restoration means replacing all necessary components with original components in order to keep factory specifications, this was in best case some washing..

The paint was restored to original shine. Sir you show your inexperience when not knowing what compound and a wool pad does to the paint.

Paint resto is just a fancy way of saying he cleaned/washed the car. The 912 was dirty at most, bit of a misleading title really.