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VOLUME 25 NUMBER FOUR

DEC 2015

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

ESR at

RENNSPORT REUNION V

A Pair of Beautiful

Aase Bro’s

And Much

PORSCHE 910s

IMSA GTU 911 MORE!

VOLUME 25::NUMBER 4::DECEMBER 2015

WWW.EARLY911SREGISTRY.ORG

EDITOR JOHN DILGER johndilger@aol.com 714.235.4981

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ASSOCIATE EDITOR S Y LV I A S A L E N I U S smsalenius@aol.com

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

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0 2 DUE DILGERENCE 0 3 NEW PRODUCTS

ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER ERIC WILLIAMS edesign45@mac.com CREATIVE ADVISOR BBS MODERATOR CHUCK MILLER cmiller14@socal.rr.com

0 4 AASE BROTHERS’ IMSA GTU 911 CO-BBS MODERATOR PETER K ANE ptkane@yahoo.com

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KEITH HUFNAGEL’S SIGNAL ORANGE 1970 911T

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STEVE THEIN’S & REG HOWEL’S PORSCHE 910S

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CARL TOFFLEMIRE’S 1968 911

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ROB MAIRS’ BACKDATED 1973 RSR

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PROJECT: NINE_ELEVEN PART 3

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EARLY 911S REGISTRY BANQUET DINNER AT RENNSPORT REUNION V

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EARLY 911S REGISTRY RENNSPORT REUNION V PHOTOS

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NEW MEMBERS

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REGISTRY GEAR

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ADVERTISING INDEX

REGISTRY REGIONS: COLORADO REGION ADVISOR DAV E DIM A RI A dave@vintagecarworks.com 303.459.4626 TEXAS REGION ADVISOR E D M AY O cdih@att.net 817.595.4651 MICHIGAN/OHIO REGION ADVISOR RON PRUETTE rpsurfr@gmail.com 248.821.8670 IRELAND REGION ADVISOR JAMES SYMINGTON wjamessynington@gmail.com.com

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ADVERTISING ADVISOR MICHAEL S. HAMMOND hammondms@earthlink.net CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN GORIUP jzgmag@sbcglobal.net

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MEMBERSHIP ADVISOR MERCHANDISE COORDINATOR REGION COORDINATOR MICHAEL S. HAMMOND hammondms@earthlink.net DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR FRED TRUEMAN fctruem@verizon.net 714.848.6485

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ASHTON AMORES ashton.amores@gmail.com COMPETITION ADVISOR JOHN DILGER johndilger@aol.com 714.235.4981

NEW YORK METRO REGION ADVISOR LEWIS EIG lewis@eigs.net 201.501.1155

AUSTRALIA REGION ADVISOR ANDREW BEGG andrew.begg@mac.com +61.4114.1415

GEORGIA REGION ADVISOR BILL BAUSSER bbausser@gmail.com 404.664.5914

NEW ZEALAND REGION ADVISOR GARY LONG early911nz@gmail.com www.earlynz.org

INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT K ARIM NOURELDIN karim.noureldin@bluewin.ch

FLORIDA REGION ADVISOR KEITH ENNIS keith@racectc.com 561.267.1859

EVERGREEN REGION ADVISOR (Washington Region) RICH LAMBERT rich289fia@hotmail.com 425-220-1171

REGISTRY FAX NUMBER: 310.322.2074

FRANCE REGION ADVISOR X AV I E R P E T I T- J E A N - B O R E T brake.killer.gtr@gmail.com

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ADVISOR JIM BREAZEALE easypor@sbcglobal.net

COVER: Photo By John Dilger. SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL: Please check the back cover of this issue to determine if your membership to the ESREG (Early 911S Registry) has expired. BACK ISSUES: Available for $5 each. Please e-mail Mike Hammond, hammondms@earthlink.net or 310.322.7701, to place order.

REGISTRY WEB SITE: www.early911sregistry.org REGISTRY E-MAIL: info@earlysregistry.org REGISTRY MAIL: ESREG 433 Maryland Street El Segundo, CA 90245-3814

DUE DIL GER ENCE Unfortunately, due to a lack of submissions, we do not have any region reports for this issue. The next issue will be out the end of March, so please send in your regional news by February 15. Also, if anyone is interested in organizing a new region, please contact Michael Hammond at 310-322-7701 PDT USA or hammondms@earthlink.com.

In this issue, Ron Thomas describes the restoration of the Aase Brothers IMSAGTU911, Keith Huffnagel recounts the details of his 1970 911T, Steve Thein and Reg Howel tell us the history of their Porsche 910s, Carl Tofflemire goes over his car purchase and two year journey to Rennsport V, Ron Mairs documents backdating an ’85 Carrera to a ‘73 RSR and Brett Johnson provides part 3 of Project Nine Eleven.

All of you, around the early 911 world, you have the opportunity to be a star in ESSES, tell us about your car or pass along some technical knowledge! Write something, include high resolution photos, send it in and it will appear in ESSES. Don’t worry about formatting, spelling, grammar or layout; we will take care of all that.

We have two new listings on our NEW PRODUCTS page. If you contact either of the featured companies, please be sure to say you saw them in ESSES. NEW PRODUCTS showcases the latest specialized items for our community at no charge to the manufacturer or seller. If you have or have come across something you think would be helpful to our members, please e-mail me at johndilger@aol.com.

This issue also contains photos of the cars and drivers of Rennsport V held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca last September as well as photos of the Early 911S Registry 25th Anniversary Banquet held at the Embassy Suites in nearby Seaside. Through the generous donations of our advertisers and supporters, we were able to give away 37 raffle prizes worth $6,600.00.

Fred Trueman seeks to ensure that each of you receive the correct number of issues, based upon your renewal date. Your renewal date and membership number appear on your address label.

V25 N3, the previous issue, had a renewal date of September 1, 2015. This issue, V25 N4 had a renewal date of December 1, 2015. The next issue, V26 N1 will be mailed out around the end of March

Early 911S Registry 25th Anniversary Banquet Prizes: Early 911S Registry ......................................................... 3 911S Registry jackets and 2 Grill Badges Coco Mats ..........................................................................................................2 sets of Coco Mats European Auto Salvage Yard ...................................................................... 1 gal. of Swepco gear oil EBS Racing ................................................................................................... $500.00 Gift Certificate Exotic Car Seats ..........................................................................................10% off of a set of seats Specialty Cars ...................................................................................... 10% off on $200.00 or more Aase Sales ............................................................................................... 3 $100.00 gift certificates King of Trim ............................................................................................. 10% discount on any work Parts Klassic ..........................................................Certificate for $150.00 credit for parts or service Atuobahn Interiors ................................ $100.00 off a carpet set, seat, dash or Targa top restoration Restoration Design ........................................Left and right front inner fender panels for ‘65-‘68 911 Stoddard .......................... $500.00 gift certificate, 3 bottles of wine for each table and goodie bags Vintage Werks ..................................................$50.00 off a minimum purchase/service of $200.00 Zuffenhaus ............................................................................................................ 2 steering wheels Performance Products ................................................................................ 2 $50.00 gift certificates GTS Classics ................ $75.00 off a rally stopwatch dash board set and $225.00 off any seat order Classic Porsche Magazine ............................................2 subscriptions to Classic Porsche magazine Performance Oriented .......$150.00 off for any service on Weber 40IDA3c or Solex 40PI carburetors Sierra Madre ...............................................................Refinish services for a set of Fuchs wheels or a custom engine tune up kit and a $500.00 gift certificate at the store Paragon Products ..................................................................................... 5 $100.00 gift certificates PMB Performance ...................................................................A complete Brake Restoration Service

with coverage of the L. A. Literature and Toy Show, the SoCal All-Porsche Swap and Car Display and related events. If V25 N3, or this one, is marked on the back cover with the “LAST ISSUE, PLEASE RENEW” stamp, please renew right away to avoid missing the next issue. We will also send you an e-mail reminder. If your e-mail address or mailing address has changed during the last 30 days, send an update to Fred Trueman at fctruem@verizon.net as soon as possible.

Domestic dues for membership in the Early 911S Registry are currently $45.00, international dues are $65.00 and associates dues remain at $5.00.

Please send the correct amount with your renewal or new membership.

BUILD DATE LISTING IN THE ROSTER: Seeing not only the VIN and engine number, but the build date, is a valuable bit of information on our cars and the S Registry has added a column for that important information on the Roster. Early 911S Registry paid members whose cars are already in our database, PLEASE e-mail Fred Trueman at fctruem@verizon. net with your car’s build date (if known) by MM-DDYYYY, in 10 characters. If you only know part of your date, like the month and year but not the day, fill in those two spaces with X’s. For brand new or future members, this question has been added to our membership applications, both online and mail-in. If you don’t know your build date please leave it blank.

The Early 911S Registry is looking for an Internet Advertising Expert to help us sell advertising space on our Web site. We are also looking for a C. P. A. to help us with our day to day accounting and corporate tax preparation. If you have experience in either one of these areas and would like to help, please contact John Dilger at johndilger@aol.com or 714-235-4981 PST. The new Early 911S Registry 2016 calendar is now available. The calendar is for 12 months same as last year. It includes high quality photos of many of our members’ cars. The price of calendar is $20.00 plus postage. Go to www.early911sregistry.org to order online and pay by PayPal or you can use the order form on page 38 of this issue.

As always, please feel free to e-mail me with any comments, suggestions, articles and pictures at: johndilger@aol.com.

As always, ESSES welcomes all types of CONTENT submissions from members and businesses for the following: MEMBERS - share your story of acquisition or ownership or any content of interest. TECHNICAL - share your past or current projects, we encourage the unique DIYer accomplishments. BUSINESS OWNERS tell us what you do, our readership is interested in the people, parts, and service. ROAD TRIPS - everyone enjoys a great road trip story! EVENTS - take us there for those who missed it. OTHER - what did we miss? THIS IS YOUR PUBLICATION. Send text and presentable high resolution photos to johndilger@aol.com or contact John Dilger at 714.834.0258 for further info.

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STORY BY RON THOMAS PHOTOS BY JOHN DILGER

RON THOMAS’

1974 911 IMSA GTU CAR The car was originally built by the Aase Brothers’ salvage yard in Anaheim, California. Dave Aase ran the yard and Randy and Dennis did the racing. Dennis was also involved with the yard operation.

The car they started with was a blue ‘74 911. It was a theft recovery and the VIN numbers were cut out of the car. The car was built in the ‘70s to run in the IMSA series (www.imsa.com) in the GTU category. They did some really inventive, creative things back then.

The first major thing they did was flip the gearbox upsidedown. This allowed them to set the car up much lower than the competion without the severe axle angles that a standard gearbox would require. They actually had the car so they could run the gearbox either way, but they preferred to run upsidedown gearbox. The interior rear cover was designed so that it could easily be removed, to get to the gearbox and do mechanical work. They built a roll cage for it and actually cut the roof off the car to drop the cage in. The rules back then were such that you weren’t allowed to have a weld-in cage. It all had to be bolted in. There are bolts in the front, and back in the engine bay, they are actually rivets.

They ran Gotti wheels and this car still has the original wheels.

The wheels are 10-inch and 12-inch wide by 16 inches. They ran cooling fans like a lot of the cars did on the front wheels.

We actually reproduced those, but we don’t run them on the car because of the risk of them flying off or possible damage to them, but we do have the fans for the car. They did some other things: a 935 pedal box, suspension, fuel cell and the X-brace in the front of the car.

One of the neatest things they did, was to install a small oil cooler inside of a metal box, use a bilge pump to pump air through it and so actually had a hot air defroster, which is very cool. There’s a knob to regulate the oil flow, depending on how much heat you want to use, and then there’s the bilge pump fan that sucks air out of the wheel well, blows into the box, and then that box is connected to the vents. At Rennsport IV, I actually used that system because we were out in the fog in the morning, the windshield was steaming up, and it came in very handy. I thought it was really a creative solution.

“The car they started with was a blue ‘74 911. It was a theft recovery and the VIN numbers were cut out of the car.”

We restored the car in 2010. It looked like it’d been dropped from an airplane when we bought it. The floor pan was so beat in, we had to replace some of the floor pan sections and straighten out a lot of the metal underneath. When I got the car, I bought it from a guy who sold it for the wife of a guy named Chad Siva.

Chad lived in Palm Springs, California and had bought the car from Dennis and Randy back in the day. Chad club-raced the car for a couple of years, passed away, and it sat in a storage

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unit in Palm Springs for over 20 years. I have all of his original log books, pictures and time sheets.

When we received the car, he had updated it, like most of the cars during that time, with a slant-nose front end, boxed rockers, and a giant rear spoiler. I wanted to put the car back to the way it originally ran and looked.

After I purchased the car, I went to the American International Racing (www.americaninternationalracing. com) Web site and I actually found a photograph of my car on their Web site with the original bodywork. (http://www.americaninternationalracing.com/custom.asp?id=259246&page=19) Dennis apparently had gone to them to do a second generation of bodywork because he wanted a more

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aerodynamic package. AIR developed the rear fenders with the wide flares, a complete one piece bumper and front fender assembly. They were able to reproduce the new fiberglass pieces using the original molds, which I thought was really cool.

The car had a 3.6 liter engine in it when we got it. I wanted to put it back to the original GTU configuration, so it currently has a 2.7 engine. One of the original reasons I bought the car was that when I saw it for sale, I actually found it on the Early 911S Registry forum, under” For Sale/Wanted: Other Porsche Cars and Parts.”

I saw a photograph of the engine and I could see that it had the original slide-valve throttle bodies. At the time, those were selling for about $20,000 and the MFI pump about $10,000-$12,000, and he was asking $35,000 for the car. I figured those two parts alone would be

worth the price of admission.

I really didn’t know the history and background of the car when I bought it. Then I started doing some research and found out that the car was owned and raced

by Dennis Aase. I actually contacted Dennis, and he sent me some original photographs of the car. I took probably 100 photos of the car, blew them up to 8.5 x 11, and sent them to Dennis for review and asked him what he remembered, what was original, and what wasn’t.

As an example, the passenger floor is diamond plate, and he said that was original. I asked him if the steering wheel is original; he said yes, so we recovered it. The rear has what I call refrigerator metal. It’s that pebble grain; it looks like the finish on a refrigerator so it would

“I started doing some research and found out that the car was owned and raced by Dennis Aase.”

not reflect the sun like straight aluminum. He told us it had a houndstooth seat in it, what kind of seat belts and any and all the details about the car.

The car actually had two things that we don’t have currently. It had a clutch cable cover that they made because the clutch cable runs straight under your legs. I don’t really need it; because the cable is not in the way.

He also fabricated a cold air intake system above the intake stacks; it was a tray that mounted on the intake stacks, so that the heated air from the engine was prevented from entering the intake system. That piece is long gone, someday we could reproduce it, he did send me a nice sketch of it. I really appreciate all the help that we got from Dennis. He actually signed the car, and in fact, you saw him sitting in our Paddock here at Rennsport. He drove for Gurney and Toyota, drove 908s

and had quite the career until he had a big crash.

So we restored the car, new floor pans, engine rebuild, transmission redo. I drove the car at our first test session. They originally installed a locked differential in the transmission and you literally couldn’t turn it in the paddock without driving it, and on the racetrack, it wouldn’t turn in very well; it just wouldn’t turn. We removed the locker and installed a ZF limited slip differential, with a high number on the slip rate, and the car performed much better.

of broken exhaust rockers. We don’t have the spare parts, so we will just run my other car, a Daytona Prototype, in group 6. There seems to be a lot more 935s running at this event, Rennsport V, than at the last Rennsport, and the number of fast cars in our group has gone up. Again, this is a GTU car, with 225 horsepower at the rear wheels, and it’s not going to be competitive against 500 to 750 horsepower cars.

The gift shop at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was nice enough to use the car on one of the event shirts, which was a total surprise!

At the Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV here at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca four years ago, I think we qualified 14th out of field of 48 cars. At his event, Porsche Rennsport Reunion V, after the last practice session, we found that we have a shock problem, and a couple

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Front

Back

Rennsport V T-Shirt $20 S-XL ESR commerative shirt of Rennsport V. $22 XXL

Rennsport V T-Shirt ESR commerative shirt of Rennsport V. $15 S-XXL

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Long Sleeve Registry Shirt $22 S-XL ESR crest with “ The Registry on the right sleeve. $24 XXL

25th Anniversary Decal Front facing adhesive for inside window placement. $3

Rennsport V Hat Velcro back baseball cap. $15.00

25th Anniversary Hat Velcro back baseball cap. $10.00

Rennsport V Decal Front facing adhesive for inside window placement. $5

MARKEN DEC ALS These are exact duplicates of the original factory stickers found on early 911s. The Early 911S Registry has reproduced these no-longer-available stickers at a very high level of quality. $14 ea. Shell Decal $12 each.

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4 PORSCHE CREST sticker that is available in 3 sizes, 1 ¾”, 2 ½” and 4 3/8” high. The 2 ½” high sticker is the same size as the sticker used with the M471 RS lightweight option. Porsche Crest stickers are $7.00, $15.00 and $18.00 respectfully.

ITEM MODEL YEAR 1 ‘69

2 ‘69, ‘70

3 ‘69, ‘70, ‘71 4 ‘72 CanAm Interseries

DATES USED Starting approx. February, 1970 until approx. March, 1971 Until late February, 1972 Until March, 1973 March, 1973 until February, 1974

PLACEMENT: Weltmeister Decals 1 and 2: Apply to the inside front windshield, passenger-side bottom corner, about an inch from the seal.

Weltmeister Decals 3 and 4: Apply to the inside back quarter window glass.

INSTALLATION: To apply a Marken Weltmeister decal, wet the glass with water or Windex, then peel the front cover off and apply the decal to the wet glass with the backing still attached. Finalize position on still-wet glass, work out all water and bubbles, then peel the backing off. Continue working out bubbles, then let dry in final position. — Chuck Miller

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These are high quality stickers in the period correct colors.

WARNING of HIGH VOLTAGE coil sticker $10.00 each

TO ORDER: E-mail Michael Hammond at hammondms@earthlink.net or PH 310.322.7701, FX 310.322.2074. Also, orders can be placed thru the ESREG web site at www.early911sregistry. org/WelstmeisterDecal.html. Please include membership number to obtain member-only pricing.

If paying by Paypal, please include the number and type of decal you are ordering.

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T-SHIRT Small logo front with large logo back.

M-L-XL $17 XXL $20 MOCK TURTLENECK - LONG SLEEVE Small embroidered logo front. Available in white, black and ash. $30 GOLF SHIRT - NO POCKET GOLF SHIRT - WITH POCKET Small embroidered logo front. Available in black, ash and royal blue. $42/$47 SOFT SHELL MICRO FLEECE Bonded Full-Zip Jacket. $95.00 ZIPPER HOODIE Small embroidered logo front. Black only.

S-M-L-XL $40, XXL $45 BASEBALL CAPS With logo. Available in black, white, red and royal blue. $15 PORSCHE DISC BRAKE CLOCK 14” Clock featuring Porsche branded caliper and aluminum rotor face. $135.00 WINDOW DECALS $3, $2.50 for 2 or more EARLY 911S LEATHER COASTER SET Four coasters with the Early 911S logo with a leather holder. $24.95 PORSCHE ROADSTER GIFT SET A tire pressure gauge, flashlight, and ballpoint pen are kept in a leather carrying case. Features the Porsche monogram logo. $35 MONEY CLIPS Polished with logo. $15 STAINLESS STEEL MUGS Brushed finish with logo. $18 CAR BADGES $42 for members, $47 for non-members PATCHES 3” inch with logo. $6 or $5 for 2 or more KEY FOBS Black leather with crest. $10

ORDERING AND SHIPPING INFORMATION: To place an order contact Michael Hammond by e-mail, hammondms@earthlink.net, or by phone, 310.322.7701, or fax, 310.322.2074. You can also place an order by visiting www.early911sregistry.org/boutique/index.asp. US funds only! Domestic Shipping and Handling $12.00 (do not include for orders of only decals or patches). Foreign orders will be billed for actual shipping costs. All prices include tax. No PO boxes. We now take credit cards for REGISTRY GEAR ITEMS.

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