Early IB

[silbere]

Bloody nice !!
Lime Green?
Love the matching microfibre
That is a real early car and lucky to be RHD out of Japan,
Enjoy !

[ELSPORTO]

Keeping original. Got the original IMG_6436.jpg steering wheel with the car too.

Good to hear. You'll love driving it if it's set up right.

[Polorot]

[QUOTE=silbere;n162176]Bloody nice !!
Lime Green?

Yes, Lime 137

[9er]

Good to hear. You'll love driving it if it's set up right.

You mean with the Sporto removed

[mrar]

You mean with the Sporto removed

Ouch!

[green gauge]

Very nice John, that blue black vinyl is a bit of a feature of these early IB cars.
Great patina on the bonnet badge.
Whatever you do don't let someone knock off that outside mirror= super rare.
Does it still have the weird Jap Speedo, I can't see the 0-60 markings.

What exactly makes a Japanese speedo weird?

[9er]

[mrar]

Here's one out of a 75

[SM911]

You can always pick a Japanese IB car - red bands on the speedo and the one piece rear seat bottoms. Geez those things are bloody ugly.

[Polorot]

IMG_6401.JPGVery ugly..............

[P-Kay]

Nice find John,
Gorgeous!

[mrar]

IMG_6401.JPGVery ugly..............

I have one of these stylish seat bases spare if anybody is looking to transform their rear set look,quite rare and good for young kids in the back spilling stuff...these will be very popular one day.

[ELSPORTO]

...these will be very popular one day.

.... just like the sporto ....

[reedminor]

I remember helping Bob Whyms move premises in the early 90's.... I was at uni at the time.

We threw away probably 15 sportos in a day.

In the early early 80's - early 90's - sportos had a reputation for being expensive to fix and very difficult to get parts for. If you could find them, parts were eye wateringly expensive.

So 915 conversions were popular.

From memory we kept about 6.

And the wheel turns!

JR

[ELSPORTO]

Hi Justin,
Bob is doing my engine and box at the moment while the body and paint is being finished ... trust me - he's still trying to throw sporto's away!
Ben.