The Model

A day when I thought I could get loads done but, in the end, did virtually nothing due to a lack of response to various emails and texts. On the plus side though, some order has been restored to the living room in that all the bedroom stuff that was being stored there is now either in its proper home or hidden out of sight in the study! We reasoned that as it’s still several weeks before the decorators are due, we might as well try and return things to as near normal as possible for that time, rather than have two empty rooms and one absolutely crammed one.
Not unpacking everything though. Even though the display cabinet has been rebuilt and installed into the unit in the lounge, only some of the most delicate pieces have gone back into it - those that were too fragile even to wrap up and put in a box.
And the most fragile of those is this model of a Porsche 911. And it’s not just any old Porsche 911 - it’s as close as possible to my old 1970 911T which I owned between 1987 and 1991. I knew nothing about this model until it was presented to me on my birthday in - I think - 1988. Mrs C had asked a friend who was a very good model maker to make it for me as a surprise. Fortunately, my car had been lightly modded to look like a Carrera RS so he was able to use a kit of that particular car and then just tweak it - the most obvious thing being the addition of my actual registration number to the model.
Having taken the real thing to Le Mans a couple of times, I eventually swapped it with my electrician for a rewire of a house we had bought. He was intending to use it for historic rallying but I moved to Kendal not long afterwards and lost touch with him. The number is still live on DVLA but it’s not showing as either taxed or MOT’d, so I don’t know if it physically exists. Kind of wished I’d hung on to it as 911s from that era are now worth quite a bit!
But the model lives on, although, at over 30 years old and having survived three house moves, it could do with a few repairs - one of the windscreen wipers fell off and disappeared many moons ago and other bits are very loose. Maybe I can ask the original builder to give it a full restoration. And that would definitely be cheaper than restoring the real thing!