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sgloki · Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 53 Location: Bellingham, WA

Hello everyone,

Name's Loki. I'm from Washington state U.S. and I just got my first porsche.
She's a orange 1977 924 with all the decals. I call her my VW #542 until I come up with a name.

She's the beauty to my beast. (a primer black 81 vw rabbit) and I am looking forward to reading all the info here and sharing my applicable VW info.

The haynes manual is in the mail and my fuse block is a nightmare of corrosion and loose connections, not to mention A P.O. seems to have hack jobbed some portions of my harness. I drove her home, so we'll see what i takes to get it legal and all.

Has anyone here put a aftermarket fuse box in, like one from painless wiring?.... I may go that rout.

Anyway, hello again, and pics of my project 542 to come.
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All work and no speeding makes jack a dull boy.

CorsePerVita · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 1992 Location: Redmond, Oregon

Welcome!

I'm from oregon and recently picked up a 77' 924 as my project.

Welcome to the boards, lots of wonderful info here

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- 1977 Porsche 924 2.0 N/A (Trackday Project)
- 1979 Porsche 924 2.0 N/A (The other daily)
- 1980 Porsche 931 (Daily)
- 1987 Lamborghini Jalpa
- 1999 Ducati 900SS

sgloki · Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 53 Location: Bellingham, WA

Thanks Corsepervita!

Here's a few snap shots of my new project. Maybe someone can help me identify the package, the decals don't seem to be common.

These are the odd decals....anyone????

And here is my current and first major headache with the car....

I'm linking it because it's a huge image and a small one doesn't do it justice.

http://sgloki.googlepages.com/924WIRES1.jpg/924WIRES1-full;init:.jpg

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All work and no speeding makes jack a dull boy.

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

WOW

Your car has a graphics package that looks remarkably similar to this 931 I just saw for sale in MI the other day...(clicky):

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968rz · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 537 Location: S. E. Wisconsin

Welcome to the club Loki

I don't think the decals mean anything, might even be dealer add on stuff.
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Rick
79 924 coupe Petrol Blue 3spd auto (wife's DD)
93 968 coupe Amazon Green 4spd Tip (my DD)

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

I'm pretty sure the ones in the Craigslist ad are knock-offs of the genuine Porsche article...they might even be Sparky-specials.

Where is Sparky, anyway???? Haven't heard from him in AGES...
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Peter_in_AU · Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 2745 Location: Sydney, Australia

sgloki · Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 53 Location: Bellingham, WA

Thanks guys.

Yeah, they do look a lot like the ones on the 931 but my numbers are not inverse cut like those. *shrugs*

Probably from the dealership as you speculated.

Now to get it running again with lights and some new rubber....
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All work and no speeding makes jack a dull boy.