We have lights, this thing's been sitting for 20 years. There's no way it just starts. There's no way all right, ready, wizard, hey turn it. Oh, that's! That's all the fuel! You started what the heck welcome to hoovy's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and this was a mistake.

It was an impulsive, late night ebay purchase that i immediately regretted, but time has changed in the six months since i purchased it and it turns out i'm an absolute genius. Despite this thing well being quite a mess, it is a 1979 porsche, 911 sc targa except well, it's not a target anymore. Somebody went in and cut off the rear glass portion of this with the roll bar and threw away the target top and affixed a newer cabrio top to this old, 1979 911 sc when they didn't have convertibles. Yet it was still a few years away before they brought back the convertible and it is an absolute mess.

I thought it was cool because it kind of had a vintage looking patina to it. It's something you never see with old 911s because they have exploded in value and most of them have been restored. You never see them like this anymore and it's been sitting for 20 years and hasn't been started. Now i paid 16 000 for this car, which i thought was very expensive at the time, but since with the craziness of 2021, it's turned out to be an excellent excellent deal.

I could probably flip this thing, as is for a pretty good profit, but i'm gon na pour a bunch of money into it one way or another. Now this is my second air cooled 911 that i've unveiled to the channel. The previous one was an 86 3.2 much newer than this much nicer than this, and i tried to justify in that video why people overpay for these air-cooled cars well, including myself and honestly after having one for a while. I realized how much more i like the newer 911s, like the 996, which were a better value and went back to that.

I bought that purple one well. I changed it to purple and then bought backup hollow 911, which is going to have its ls engine redone. So i really wasn't too keen on revisiting air cooled worlds, but now things are so crazy that even 996 convertibles recently i'm bringing a trailer one with forty thousand miles on it and average condition brought fifty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand dollars for a base.

996. 2000 running egg convertible, absolutely insane the market is crazy. So the fact that i have a whole car - that's complete. It seems to have everything that it needs for a reasonable price and a rust free body.

It seems like a much better deal now, but i don't know what i'm going to do. We really haven't looked at this car. We just put it under a tarp for six months, while other projects got finished, but now it's this car's turn all right wizard. When i first showed up with this uh 911, what did you think i thought? What in the world have you lost your mind? Uh yeah? Well, you probably already knew that, but this uh, you know, as time has gone by in the six months.

These are rapidly appreciated in value where this is actually a really good deal, despite despite all the warts and the very tired, definitely not original paint, it's a definitely an old school mako job, a very cheap mako job and the interior. Well yeah it is. It is what it is, but these are the sport seats. These are probably worth three thousand dollars just by themselves and they're, not seats.

There's the seats they're not even bolted in, but they're quite valuable, uh everything's everything's there there's brown door panels with a black dash and black seats. I don't know - and this uh convertible top. Well, it's it's! It's better days, yeah, just just a bit, so it'll need a new top, but that's probably the least of our worries. With this thing, the fook wheels are quite valuable on this thing and it is a rust free, 911 wizard, even though the roof was cut off and it's been modified into a convertible which takes away any desirability, but it's the 911, it's air cooled 911 and well.

It looks like everything's there under this after market. Well, it looks like a factory whale tail, but added to this car looks pretty crusty, but it's all there. I don't really see anything missing. It just looks like a car that was parked 20 years ago, which is what the seller told me yeah, and when i bought this, i assumed we weren't going to be able to save this motor and that's actually what got you on board and excited, because i Want to do an electric conversion, yes, but now that it's here and i'm seeing all this and it's all together, i'm thinking there may be a chance that we don't go down that route and maybe maybe this engine will be stable and fire up.

I i don't know unlikely, but we can try. I figured we could at least look into it and not write this engine off completely before we go deep down. The ev conversion rabbit hole, but the odds are slim. I would imagine slim slim to none, but you never know so in preparation for this uh.

You charged up the battery for me and you had to fix something. So the car would even give any electrical power at all right. Yeah, the battery terminals are just so crusty. They wouldn't even give any power to the car so put new terminals on it, and that part is working now cool, so we can actually try to crank it over.

We can try interesting well i'll, set up the big camera and you can watch the engine and i'll all crank. Okay sounds good. Let's do it all right i'll hop into these very loose sports seats. Oh geez, um, okay, well, clutch in actually has some clutch feedback.

We're in neutral turn the key. We have lights. This thing's been sitting for 20 years. There's no way it just starts.

There's no way all right, ready, wizard, i'm ready. It turns over pretty strong, but the fuel tank is quite low, the previous owner. He did try to revive this thing. He said he drained the fuel tank and didn't do much else.

Spot tires and a few things so put some gas in it and hope for the best. Well, this is fun wizard, just some cut wires. Just dangling here. Who knows what it went to there's also some wires in the passenger side, just laying there? Oh yes, perfect great.

It smells really bad. Like cold gas, um okey, dokey uh. It started it started and started smoking like crazy. So we stopped so we can move the aston, martin repeat, which isn't mine anymore sold to a friend of mine.

I don't want to smoke. Show that thing out so we'll move it and have started again. You started really all right. Take two well, but it's running.

No turn it off. I smell gas. I guess i should listen to wizard what what's this? Do? Oh, oh, it literally just sprays gas, oh wow, right out of the fuel pump. Ah, that's not good, but the engine runs well.

I guess i'll leave this as a 2b continued. We can fix this alarming fuel leak. It's coming our way, yeah probably get the old fuel out of there new plugs, maybe just clean it out in there and try it again. Try it again with without starting a fire, this uh, it's quite surprising.

I did not expect this this well that, but i didn't expect anything to happen, let alone it starts. You start it. What the heck! Well, let's put her back in her hole until you guys get going on it, but, oh my god! Oh that's! That's all the fuel, all the fuel we put in, not quite but still three gallons. That's that's plenty! Goodness! Okey dokey! Well, i'm still quite impressed with your little car.

Apparently it doesn't want to be an eevee. It wants to live 20 years hasn't ran in 20 years. It is definitely the dumbest automotive youtube channel it well. Well! No, if it runs, that's that's wonderful! We almost started a fire you're insured, all right, i'm back, it's been a few days and the wizard has been investigating.

I see you're you're fiddling you're, actually tag teaming. You got magic mike on the corvette. Yes, it's getting close, the electric fan, electric fan and all new brakes, no more exploding brakes. That's uh! So good news there how about here bad news and bad news? Okay, so what's the least bad news, the least bad news is all your injectors are so full of rust and crust and nastiness that they're all clogged.

It quit running wait so it was running and now it's not running correct, wonderful! Well, that's probably why you drain and uh fill a tank before you try and start it, but i just wanted to start it because i'm i'm special and you're special, i'm a special boy: okay, but uh injectors how much about 250 bucks for oh 250, bucks. Okay, no big deal so what's the what's the bad bad news, the bad bad news i'll do the wheel of fortune spin, the wheel, yeah, that's compression, so 120, 150, 140 uh, 60, 120 and zero where's, the one, nothing, the cylinder on the driver's side furthest towards The rear bumper, that is a completely dead, cylinder, no compression zero compression none. So it's a five-cylinder 911, yes, well kind of four and a half. Hmm, that's probably why it was parked 20 years ago.

I would imagine whatever's wrong with. It is probably the reason why it was parked. So what do you think is it uh, bad piston rings or we can put the camera in there and take a quick little gander? Okay, oh i see you have your your weekend tool here for your colonoscopy, colon oscar me. Whatever it's called whatever it's called the stuff, he does on the weekends, just just for fun as a hobby, yeah um, okay, you're.

Looking for the whole, am i in the hole uh? No, i don't know what that is wrong, hole, wizard, wrong hole. If we've been there before yeah further down okay, there you go you're, getting warm getting warm up up, go back a little bit in and out. Okay, there's the threads for the spark plugs and there's piston black piston. That piston is coated in carbon and garbage that piston hasn't ran in a long time.

I'll jiggle it around. Do you see a hole? I don't see any holes. No, but oh that's nasty could be the rings that are bad, though that or that one of the valves is bent or burned or whatever it is, is likely why it was parked okay, well, so at minimum it would be new valve like a top-end rebuild, but The engine has 180 000 miles on it, so if you're going to do anything, you're just going to have to rebuild the whole motor right, that's a that's like 10 grand over here yeah that doesn't include pulling the motor. No no.

10. 000 is about the bottom. These days on, rebuilding any 911 engine is probably more than that nowadays, with everything else going on everything being more expensive, crap whale. I think what you could do is sell this one, as is for probably five grand and then go a nice chunk of coin towards an ev swap i mean that was the original plan was to ev swap this thing and there are some really cool kits out There that take tesla batteries and uh well, do it up to be an electric car.

I own tycan, i suppose, but uh it's a lot of money too. It is a lot of money, probably every bit of 10 grand to do that. But if you can sell the engine, then you're way ahead. Yeah i'm gon na have to think about this.

This was kind of a impulse accidental purchase and it's going to be a major investment in a car. That's it's not pretty, but would be kind of fun. It would be very fun. Do you want to do it? I would love to do an ev spot, so we're killing another.

Naturally porsche motor, like we did apollo 911 with an ls swap, except now we're doing well. American tesla batteries or wherever tesla batteries come from. Look some mine, africa. I don't know it is a cool car.

I, like the look of it. I like the patina, so maybe maybe we'll do something. Let me know in the comments what you think i should do and uh thank you for watching. You.

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