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We acquired Chalkie ('85 944 lux auto) strictly by accident by way of a debt repayment from a "friend" at Whitsun, when poor Chalkie was engine out, having a new damper (torque tube?) fitted. Our friend finally paid off the garage and Chalkie arrived a couple a days ago with 108000 on the clock, (and old MOT's to kind of prove it), with a full MOT, minus the original cassette player, with a non working temp gauge, a constantly on brake pad warning light, a heated rearscreen switch which stops the indicators working, a Clifford alarm system that seems to flatten the battery within 4 days and a damaged interior where our pal had tried to repair the sunroof with a 9" screwdriver which he kindly left in the back of the car. So we love her already!!

Unlike us, Chalkie's bodywork seems to have survived the years rather well and looks fab from a distance.

Having sold John's beloved old Jag XJ40 we're going to attempt a rolling restoration, so 1st stop auto electricians as most faults seem to lie in the tangled web of wiring hanging below the cracked dash.








One last thing, please forgive us our future stupid questions as we will forgive any replies which assume we may have the slightest clue of what we are doing!

hi and welcome, enjoy the car it will be fun. you appear to have a set of fuchs on the car !!!!!!!!!!

where are you???

Hi and welcome

Don't worry about the stupid questions. The forums great for loads of useful replies and of course some stupid ones

Enjoy the car, looks like it shouldn't need too much so fingers crossed for you.

We knew they were not originals and thought they were off an old 911, if they're really fuchs we may have recouped some of our losses already

We're near chichester about as far south as you can get with dry feet.

Good to see you made it here Jone (and Jane)! I think both Gordon and I are further South

Sorry meant south of Chichester, out here on the end of Selsey Bill, one way in, one way out, reckon it's truly the road to nowhere

well they look like fuchs, have you got a close up of the rears?? Both front and rear would be good if you have one. No its not a fetish I just wodered how big a dish they are 6 and 7 's or 7 and 8's? or maybe bigger !!!???

Had quite a few Hols there when I was a kid!

Hi & Welcome Guys Good to see another proper colour Porsche on here!

I'll try and post some more pix a bit later with some extra info for you, I'd be amazed if they were genuine fuchs, but whatever they are they're pretty cool, or so I'm told.

Looks like you've found yourself in a similar boat to me only yours is currently on the road.

Good luck with the restoratin.

i suspect it is a fetish

hello and welcome, you should get some help on the forum for your stupid and not so stupid questions as the wealth of knowledge is incredible

We'll be interested to hear your experiences, not quite sure about "on road", so far 150 miles of nervous pleasure

Mine hasn't been touched for 5 years and I don't even know what state the running gear is in yet so should be interesting.

Snap on the wheels.