I am new to this car and the forum. This weekend we are getting a 1995 cabrio automatic, and it will be my wife's car. I will be doing whatever work needs to be done, and I have been doing this over the last 10 years with my own rolling restoration, a 1967 XKE ragtop. Looking forward to the forum. Judd
Wow, forget the 968 .. a '67 XKE convertible ?! Now that's a REAL car ! I'm green with envy ( British racing green, if you must choose a shade ..)
But congrats on the new addition, nonetheless.. great choice !
Welcome. Your wife is a lucky gal!
Thanks. We are both pretty excited. Driving it back to Seattle after a few days at Disneyland. Assuming that the car makes it OK but it's a 968 what could go wrong. We will both have our dream cars, life is good. Yep the XKE is British green. Will keep you posted. Maybe need some good advice on the road, hopefully not going to need it. Not going anywhere unless the service records shoe a recent belts change.
if this was a week or so later, you could have rolled in here, we could have installed a supercharger kit, and then you could have really had a blast driving home
Check the 968 West Coast Gathering schedule in June. We would love to see you come down to Mendocino.
Terrific! This is going to be fun, similar to XKE group but even better because fewer cars and owners. The car is as advertised and the only thing I see is perished gaskets at the door handles which I assume are unobtainium. Will try to send pictures after we leave Disneyland to head north on Tuesday. Most definitely will be coming to events. The top stays down!
those door handle gaskets should still be available. a bit of a pain to change though
Hi Judd,
Door handle and side mirror gaskets are cheap and readily available so you should have no problem there
Pelican or sunset, sonnen, gaudin any of the dealerships with easy to use online part shopping
There's a technique described in a thread here on the forum to use heat to very gently soften and stretch the gasket over the handle without having to remove the entire door handle . I did this carefully with a heat gun and it worked well made the job that much simpler
Welcome to the forum
--michael
This place is the best. I send out a side comment about door gaskets and receive advice within the hour? Thanks. I will switch off from this introduction topic now and move to forum topics for road trips and repairs/maintenence, later in the week. Stay tuned and thanks again.
i think you just bought my car
If you did indeed buy flash 's car ( well, his father-in-law's car to be more specific ) rest assured you bought a car that is in as meticulous of a shape as it gets .. still, it's a 968 and things will go wrong, but you have one of the great samples out there ..
I predict your wife will be very happy with this acquisition.
Yes, this site is a great resource, the members are a close-knit community, eager to hlep best we can, but sadly it seems tne forums' life is quickly approaching its demise so whatever free time you do have, put it to good use spending as much time as you can researching the wealth of information available here which should serve you and your new 968 well for many happy miles to come ..
Sounds like I have the car you are talking about. White cabrio with grey top, interior and tonneau cover, low miles and I'm a fanatic so very happy that a gasket is the only thing I can find that I can fix. Sorry to hear the forum is going away. So far it's the best one I've participated in, as I said. Just my luck but you will be hearing from me as long as possible and I hope the events continue, looks like Mendocino is annual? I will be coming to this in June of this year and both of us next year assuming this is an annual event. Judd
Quote:i think you just bought my car
I can't believe you sold a car with a defective gasket...what a rip off artist... (sorry, I was just reminiscing).
Ah, the good old days...
Jay
yup - that's the one. great car. i always meant to change out those gaskets. they are just a pain, and i figured i had to leave something for the next guy to do. i already did everything else. figures though that you wanted some of the things i took off of the car. the consignment lot didn't want anything non-stock, though they let me leave the M030 sway bars and the stereo. unfortunately the things i pulled off (roll bar, strut tower brace, lower brace, modded airbox) sold already. i do still have the chip i made for it, and i think i have a lower brace here.
I already ordered the strut brace, but interested in the chip. Let's try to coordinate maybe while still in the area. Judd
not sure how you ordered the strut brace. i am out of them, and have been for a long time
Unless your wife plans to violently throw that car into corners,the strut tower brace adds little value to anything ..the lower brace however, tightens the ride / road feel very nicely , and although the combination of he two braces does complete the overall handling improvement, given the choice of only one of the two the lower brace would , without question, be my pick. IMHO .
strut tower braces on these cars are tricky. the OEM tower hardware is very weak. i had to design in a certain amount of flex to prevent ripping that apart. the other braces on the market are too either stiff, and ultimately will destroy that hardware, or required removal of the fuel rail cover. they are fine on track cars, which don't see a lot of use, and it doesn't matter so much what it looks like, but on a street car they will end up either costing money in repair, or looking cobbled together. that's exactly why i designed mine the way i did. i was not fond of the idea of doing damage, and i like a pretty engine bay.