My pride and joy now looks a bit different from when I first saw her! Stuart has stripped her back ready for painting. However this rejuvenation caper isn’t just greasy fingernails and the odd curse at a stubborn fastener, there’s also the admin, and the fun of researching & verifying the car.
With the guys at NINEAUTO having a well-earned break over September, here are some useful findings from those other activities:
PPSR (Personal Properties Security Register):
PPSR is used to confirm that a car is unencumbered, hasn’t been written off or stolen; it was previously know as REVS. There are many different ways to access the PPSR information, with costs ranging up to $25. Here’s a tip, use the Government provided service at: https://www.ppsr.gov.au, it provides all the required information, and only costs $3.40.
When investigating a classic car, it’s useful to identify a reference car with proven, acknowledged provenance, through which to verify & confirm details of your own car. Our chosen Reference Car is listed as car #45 at the following link: http://911carrera3.com/carrera-3-0-registry/.
This Ireland-based silver car was chosen because it is verified as a genuine RHD Carrera 3.0 and its VIN & Engine Numbers are close to our car:
• VIN: 9117601469 (27 chassis after our chassis),
• Engine Number: 6679215 (3 engines after our engine).
My NINEAUTO post last month received a couple of comments. One comment was from Cormac Fitzgerald (who lives in Ireland) letting me know he had a silver Carrera 3.0, and that he would be eagerly following my progress. I immediately got in touch with Cormac and was amazed to discover that he is the owner of the reference car we’d chosen… the world really is small!
Insurance:
After some ringing around we chose RACV Vintage, Veteran & Classic Insurance. Across a number of vehicles, we’ve recently found them to be more competitive, plus they’re willing to insure to values beyond $150,000 (some others insurers aren’t). Our car will remain unregistered throughout the planned refurbishment, and RACV offer quite a low cost policy. The car’s value and registration status will need to be updated once the work has been completed, and the car goes on Club Registration.
Name:
One more ‘important’ decision we needed to make was to name our car. We’d already decided that she’s female, and after looking at other options, we agreed that the best choice was ‘Blondie’… She just looks kinda blonde, Blondie was an up-and-coming band in 1977, and as a teenager I’d rather fancied Debbie Harry. So Blondie it is!
Stay tuned for the next update…
By: Peter Bosland
