Shmee's Porsche 914 : Deep in the Hell Hole !

[@Shmee150]

You guys have no idea how excited I am for this project! Seeing the hurdles being overcome is awesome, and of course repairing the earlier fixes properly. The end result is going to be so good! Thank you for everything

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

It's our pleasure Tim. Glad to help put it back on the road :)

[@chrisjackson1530]

I think you need another visit Tim

[@russthebiker]

Its going to be a fantastic car, thank you for making sure a rare classic is being restored properly,its a labour of love owning a classic,but the day you drive away in it, will top everything

[@EmetYAHU]

Why not locate a better 914 example and save yourself wasted time and effort 🤔

[@russthebiker]

@@EmetYAHU because they are very rare, and many of them will need bodywork repairs at a later date, and Tim got this car knowing it needed work,once done he will know that he has a sound and safe car

[@billverine765]

A true gentlemen and a scholar who puts the tools back where they belong before moving on.

[@1970sSupertramp]

I could watch this man for hours, he's so calm and professional about the way ply's his skills.

[@Rob_77]

Completely agree, Steve would make an excellent teacher

[@russthebiker]

@@Rob_77 aye,it's like watching my father work

[@ianlizclisby1360]

Nothing quite like watching a craftsman at work, brilliant video.

[@JamesMullarneyIsAFraud]

I didnt see that here

[@rtroyer8963]

Nice to see a 914 restoration done right! Great driving true sports car! Cheers to You!

[@DJackIII]

Best videos yet! Really interesting how the jig does it’s thing. You’re an artist Steve, bravo!!

[@7732147]

Steve. I've had a shite day and this video has really cheered me up. I love your work and the peaceful way you go about repairing the rot!

[@russthebiker]

@@7732147 me too After the chemo it's my big treat

[@jeffhammond8969]

Always makes my day when you have new content. 914’s are under appreciated cars. Now for more updates on the disaster Datsun and the Cosmo!❤

[@nigeldewallens1115]

That was truly staggering to watch, as I have Never seen work like that done to a car! Bravo!!

[@356rah]

Watching a master craftsman at work is very awe inspiring.

[@wamgoc]

I have one of those ramps! It’s brilliant!! Love the craftsmanship!!! Amazing rebuild!!!👏👏👏👏

[@JWthree]

Wonderful craftsmanship, thanks for taking us along on the journey!

[@ynothump2566]

Fascinating to watch a master at work 😎

[@1954307]

great nice long video steve comming along nicely

[@MUKHAIMER80]

absolutely brilliant guys😊

[@joescully566]

Great work Steve, it really is a game of chess having to think 6 moves ahead! Love it, Joe

[@uzairuzairr7222]

Awesome vid! Nice speaking to you earlier in the week. Looking forward to the sneak peak i got on the phone too haha!

[@ds.3268]

An absolute please to watch a Master at His craft . And complemented by the choice of music as you skilfully dissected and refurbished those parts 👏

[@jeffbatt8968]

This has made my day. Brilliant production, expertly explained and neat and tidy. Such a joy. Looking forward to this project. Well done sir.

[@Mr10usdad]

Awesome job! Great to see a master at work. Keep the videos coming!

[@ramonsibyl213]

I always believed my rustrepair work on car's as a self thought welder and fabricator was not like professionals do it but now seeing your video's I do exactly the same proces in my work as you guys do, only with less professional gear as you guys I am jealous of your workplace and equipment 😁 love the video's could watch hours of this 👍👍👍

[@DanRoper-ex2vy]

Top work Steve

[@waynehunt4327]

Awesome skill set - hopefully able to pass it on to the younger ones coming through.

[@joescully566]

That mobile lift is the dogs!!!❤❤❤

[@willemjordaan4108]

Nice job Steve! Greetings from South Africa! 😊

[@stevecollins4742]

Brilliant video. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@jim99west46]

I have about 500,000 miles in 914s. The 2.0 4cyl ones got 20mpg at 120mph. Only mechanical warning I have is that the internal oil cooler can clog up. And it takes a experienced hand to shift properly.

[@jesscourt9068]

Moved up another notch on the production and this is now the most wanted view in my week. Superb!

[@jamespowton4596]

Nice jig tutorial Steve, enjoyed learning about the process 😊

[@russthebiker]

Holy macaroni That new ramp is an amazing bit of equipment

[@Qspecialman]

That is very impressive. I have a 914 which thankfully does not need this amount of work, she is an ex California car and rust free. I look forward to the next episode.

[@juugrich]

@9:40 that was the greatest explanation of anything I’ve ever seen 👍

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha thank you. Not bad to say my brain wasn't braining that day 😂

[@101088Albert]

Love this channel, so well explained, I know there is so much work in all you guys do, sometimes the wait for new episodes drives me nuts. 😂😂 Keep up the great work, regards from Spain

[@grenmastermike]

That intro was worth the like! Nice work on the video gentlemen

[@IvanNovotný-x4x]

I watch and love your videos very much, you are a tin wizard.....IN

[@ToreDL87]

I love watching your sheet steel origami Steve! That last patch, never mind any CAD at all, straight onto steel, making it SAD, Steel Aided Design! You can get tipping wheels for english wheel and beadroller to do sections like that, you wont have to hammer so much, it's what I've been missing the most on my english wheel and beadroller, so will have to make some pretty soon. Cool drift car too, S14's are neat. That small lift will come in handy for Ryan fixing rear pockets and jacking points on BMW's😁

[@nanganang7766]

Fantastic so clever, been waiting for this one for ages 👏👏

[@lkajiess]

If there are any large areas where the metal is ok (maybe the front fenders?) it would be cool to do a semi-translucent color to show the signatures below, and fade it into solid everywhere else.

[@AMO248]

I am currently working on the twin of this 914, I think the bond artist that did ours must have traveled to England!

[@Silver-st2zq]

Topper work 👍

[@bigsquatchsasfoot1964]

Amazing work ! Good job this cars come to you guys I would think a lot would have sent it to the knackers yard ! Glade someone loves it enough to save it 👍

[@ToreDL87]

Most would scrap, but more and more people now don't have a choice if they wanna get into enthusiast cars without instantly spending 50-100k on a car they don't even drive because it would depreciate. So people are fixing knackered cars that otherwise would have gone to the scrappers. I saw a video on a Cuda forest wreck where the roof, pillars and firewall was the only good bits after a collision and years of abandonment. It was put on a jig and fully restored with repro panels.

[@georgeclements2742]

Good as ever. Thanks and best wishes.

[@jeffreymartin813]

Nice one been waiting for you to start on this

[@ianhighley-zo3es]

Great video and enjoyed the commentary. The channel keeps getting better and better

[@stevenwade5189]

Unbelievable. You guys know your stuff. Looking at controlling the stresses keeping thing square is an art. Can not wait to see more. Well done😊

[@btsuga]

Nobody does it like YCR, artisans 💪🏼

[@WheelzOH]

yay! an update!! awesome video!

[@jonalowe]

Having owned about 9 or 10 914s and 914/6s over the years, and having passed on many rust buckets, I can say that is the worst I've seen. I scrapped one 914, a 1974, that was in far better condition. Shmee would have been smart to import one from the southern or western US. The 914 was destined to rust badly the day it was built. Brand new fenders i bought had uncoated brazing with flux visible on inaccessible portions. Thin gauge steel was used. Battery placement was poor and when it rained, acid poured down over the engine compartment and right rear trailing arm mounts. I'll bet the inner right rear suspension mount is paper thin. BUT, when solid, they are wonderful cars to drive. Fairly high quality repro panels for the right rear suspension, battery tray, sail panels, inner rockers, and other areas are available and would make your job much easier. Good luck!

[@russthebiker]

@@jonalowe I think that they ,like most cars of the period were built light and on a budget to bring in much needed money and tap into a different market Most cars of that period had poor corrosion resistance

[@PaintProtectionPro]

Shmee doesn’t strike me as very smart though! 😅

[@russthebiker]

@@PaintProtectionPro he seems to be doing very well,is well educated and polite , and has a good business brain,I think you under estimate his skills

[@Luke-oz7lq]

Oh my!! 😯 Respect to craftsmen. 👏This is literally recreating the car. It's fascinating to see how well you guys reshape a bare piece of metal into these cornered and angled tabs of the jigsaw puzzle a car body is. I love to see this getting together bit by bit. Keep up the good work and @shmee150 you're not gonna sell this, are you?! Please, good sir? 🙂

[@ToreDL87]

I think Shmee is going to want to keep that car given the effort going into it (plus would be kind of a hit under YCR's belt, they're fixing it for free).

[@highschoolrebuilds3972]

Cant wait to see this build in paint! Good video, I particularly enjoyed the "elevator music"😂

[@stevengunter3457]

it looking a lot better i was worried as ti how you going to resquare the car. wow that was cool

[@scotturich]

I owned a 73 914 2.0 in Olympic Blue my favorite car of all time

[@jeffdavies688]

I have been waiting for a video on this pork for ages!......and I was not disappointed....

[@proffessasvids]

Wonderful stuff boyz! Xx

[@neilstothard]

Loving these series of youtuber car restorations, with out them I probably wouldn't have found your channel and got to enjoy the work you do.

[@MatsGarage]

There are stiffening kits available that are the same as mounted on the original 914 GT cars to stiffen up the rear chassis. Might be worth to do that upgrade while you're in there.

[@vinitgada1359]

so amazing !!!

[@Forester15]

More skill, more patience, more explanations. This particular "hole" seems to my untutored brain a particular challenge but as usual WILL be overcome.

[@matthewgrice6902]

Thank you for the video. Outstanding restoration work. 👍🏻🍻

[@corypride5096]

Very informative explanation on trueing up the dimensions. You do tend to say the same thing 2 or 3 times in a row but your delivery is good. [I thought the Subaru was a disaster but this thing looks like some teenagers were having a laugh while doing the previous repairs.]

[@ToreDL87]

A lot of people seem to forget things that are only said once and then asking in comments anyway, I've seen it a million times. Darned if you do, darned if you don't..

[@phatlaz1974]

Love to see shmee go left of field and bag this Porsche

[@robsweekendgarage]

It would have been really interesting to see the before and after weights of this car. I bet there was a couple hundred pounds of bondo on that. Definitely affected performance! Cheers to you guys saving all these tasty rotten classics and bringing them back as good if not better than new.

[@allDIYtrains]

Wow, I didn't even know cars had these measuring points. That's what true know how is for. Love that.

[@russthebiker]

@@allDIYtrains Henry Ford's model T had them Modern Chinese built cars don't That's why insurers scrap them for light damage,no datum points

[@allDIYtrains]

@@russthebiker most modern cars aren't intended for repairs. I just knew this about engines and components however. Didn't know this counted for bodies.

[@EnglishTurbines]

Someone did a professional bodge job on that car....Nice to see it rectified though....🤔😏😀🇬🇧

[@AR-ed3xw]

Hey cool, I'm here before people started complaining about the music!

[@craigmorgan4676]

Bot music is eclectic!👌🤟🤝

[@fd4639]

The Team of Humble Wizards

[@JBroezel]

Such a gr8 job! (As always :-)

[@thomasnewton9818]

I like watching your videos. I grew up in Minnesota. They use salt on the roads in the winter. It destroys vehicles. The cars that's you fix ,if they were in Minnesota, they would be scrapped out for parts or crushed. It great to see you save them.

[@F40pete]

You better stock up on belt sanders 😂

[@3ducs]

Today I'm going to have another look at an Alfa 1750 GTV to restore. Complete but very rusty, At least there wouldn't be tons of filler to get rid of, but it needs everything. A project that would take me into my 80s...

[@rosschamberlain1823]

I hope those involved with the prior bodgings are able to see this car being repaired right

[@hertzair1186]

Always had a soft spot for the Volksporsche….it was my fantasy HighSchool car….though I really lusted after a 911, but knew it would have to come later than high school…..

[@davidglanister4256]

Looks a complex project. Well worth the time and effort to restore though. I noticed a BMW e9 in the background. Is that car worth a video too??? 🤞🤞🤞

[@rorybyrne975]

Looking forward to the mk2 escort sport been done

[@walterbieniek9802]

geting it back in alignment was the easy part, the main isues have to be solved,and at the end of the day its going to be a real beauty. nice work today.

[@bobskiale]

Tove this channel, keep it up !

[@slimjimmery]

Hope you are going for a Crayford RHD Conversion ...... 😎

[@ianmcleod4]

Artist 🍀🫶

[@ceciliaremusneferu9797]

Respect

[@steveworth544]

brilliant

[@PBUCKY1969]

Great vid smashin to watch cheers Just wanted to ask about your scissor lift can you say where you got it as I am looking for one. All the best!

[@AdamForeman]

I hope Tim upgrades the engine to a 911 flat 6. The car wasn't 100% perfect example of the 914 due to the extensive rust, filler, crash damage that upgrading the engine is nothing to worry about. Plus the 914 will sound awesome

[@Tenmilsochet14]

Probably not the first time deep in the hell hole.. I've been in many.. 👍

[@MichaelBrookfield-m8n]

It’s like watching an artist at work how that sheet metal is moulded into shape for a perfect fit

[@ScarfaceGTti]

Avid watcher of your videos having restored a number of vehicles (DIY). I couldn't understand why when it was jigged up that you didn't leave it all connected and left the blue jack in the rear or even bolted some box section from strut tower to the the jig frame so there was no chance the rear could move. Then you could have just cut the whole area out in the engine bay and made it in fewer panels?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

No need it was braced and in the way for us to cut out and replace metal. Too much hard work to work around it.

[@jamesarmitage8399]

Hi, I'm Thmee!!

[@1954307]

great work steve

[@tonyfarrant1095]

Please wear a mask or you won’t get much retirement! Fantastic vid and work very enjoyable

[@russellr1677]

Seemed impossible but you’re cracking on Steve! Nice job rigging up the jig.

[@dubaimike3102]

Another fascinating video. One question: when there is a 10mm difference between the two sides of the car, how do you know which side is wrong?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Cause the floor pan in the centre is measured flat and the book with all the measurments tell us what the corners supost to be.

[@MikeThirlwall-q5s]

Thank you.

[@restorationandrecovery102]

Solo una pequeña critica las chispas del pulido o corte terminan fundiendose en el vidrio

[@cliff9258]

A quick question please. When you remove the braces on top of the doors? What stops it from springing back to its old shape? Do you have to replace all the main structural panels and columns?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

during the old repairs somone had taken lits of metal out making the rear of the car sag then they welded new metal in keeping it there. When we took that metal out it aloud us to put the car back to where it was then when we weld new metal in it will keep it there.

[@cliff9258]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration Thanks, it was just confusing me 😉 which really isn’t that hard to do, I was just looking at it, thinking how it’ll keep its shape without the braces. Thanks.

[@paulleeson1218]

Love this channel to bits, can't stand Shmee.

[@Audimad52]

Too much money. No personality

[@professorright]

@@Audimad52sorry I think that’s a little unfair. He knowingly purchased this piece of garbage so that he could hand it over to Yorkshire to give them some great content and kindly support the channel. He could have easily walked into any Porsche museum or private collection and purchased the finest certified concours specimen of a 914.

[@Audimad52]

​@professorright I'm entitled to my opinion. Ycr do a great job.

[@Rob_77]

​@@Audimad52It's a character he plays, he explains it in his Late Brake Show interview

[@oliverbyrne3209]

Biggest prick.on earth.

[@hawkwarrior5066]

6:52 you can see it the roof lining don't line up with the beam on your back wall

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Makes no difference the car isn't lined up with the building or the floor it's sat on. It's lined up with the jig that it's fastened to.

[@hawkwarrior5066]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration oh i know its not lined up with the building somethings can be used as a straight edge if the beam is plum

[@windronner1]

The level of skill to perform this much structural, material and cosmetic fabrication is unbelievable. But at what point does anyone decide the juice just ain’t worth the squeeze. When this 914 ain’t a 6 or rare factory GT?

[@jonesa9214]

This music is about to put me out 😂

[@scottyskydog]

Somebody scammed Tim! They did a hatchet job on repairs…. Thank god he found a real craftsman to bring this car back to life. The 914’s are awesome cars especially the 914-6. Looking forward to seeing the end results…

[@SubeNoorSubhaan]

How long is mat E24 will be back on the road

[@bimmerfan2126]

someone could take a pile of scrap metal, thrown it together with enough bondo, and you would have this :O

[@jasonmillington4344]

I dont feel so bad about my sill welding this weekend.