After the wash and polish. Screenshot: WD Detailing/TikTok
The black Porsche that WD Detailing hauled out of a snowbound shed has “912” painted across its front lid in gold script, and a hand-lettered credit on the rear panel that reads “Stripes By J.G.”
The detailing channel, which has 2.7 million TikTok followers, posted the clip on October 12 under the caption “1969 Porsche First Wash in 30 YEARS!” The on-screen title adds that the car was found abandoned. The video gives no location, no owner, no chassis number and no explanation of where the 30-year figure comes from.
@wddetailing 1969 Porsche First Wash in 30 YEARS!
Out of the shed
The car does not drive out. Three people push it from a corrugated-metal shed down a slushy track toward a waiting pickup, with dirt heaped on the front lid and leaves packed into the cowl around the wipers. Someone had doodled with a finger in the dust on the rear window.
Inside, the crew scoops handfuls of nesting material off the floor. The camera passes over rusted seat-rail hardware, a corroded sill and a dashboard with an open hole in its top pad. The cognac seats come up far better than the metal around them.
The steel wheels come off for stripping and a trip through a powder-coat booth, then go back on in the same gold as the stripes. Before that, the purple streaks running off the rims during the first wash are iron remover reacting with embedded brake dust and rust. WD Detailing sells its own iron-decon kit through the link in its bio.
The paint gets machine-polished with the gold stripe taped off. In 2 minutes and 58 seconds, nobody opens the engine lid and nobody tries to start the car.
What the 912 was
Porsche built the 912 from 1965 to 1969, so a 1969 car would be from the last year. Porsche’s own technical data lists a 1,582 cc air-cooled flat-four carried over from the 356, making 90 PS at 5,800 rpm and 122 Nm of torque. It built 30,745 of them. In 1965 the 912 cost 16,250 Deutschmarks; the six-cylinder 911 cost 21,900.
Porsche brought the badge back once, for the 1976 US-market 912 E. It has not sold a four-cylinder 911-shaped car since, and the current talk runs the other direction, toward a rumored flat-eight flagship.
None of it is factory
Porsche never painted “912” on a hood. It also never fitted this car’s spoiler. The gold fiberglass ducktail copies the one introduced on the 911 Carrera RS 2.7, which debuted at the Paris Motor Show on October 5, 1972, after 912 production had ended.
What came out of the shed is a period custom: black paint, gold stripes running from the front lid down both flanks, gold wheels, an RS-style tail and two sign-offs on the rear panel. One is J.G.’s stripe credit. The other begins “Paint By,” and the rest is too worn to read in the footage. Somebody paid a sign painter to sign this car, and nobody in the video says who.
The hood script also does not prove what is behind the rear seats. A 911 wearing a 912 graphic, or a 912 with a swapped engine, would look the same from the outside. The chassis number and engine stamping would settle it, and the video shows neither.
Where it stands
Barn-find stories we have covered, like the Plum Crazy 1971 Charger an Oklahoma seller listed on eBay or the abandoned collection with a $1 million asking price, usually lead with the drivetrain and the price. WD Detailing’s feed leads with foam. The same account has run the format on a Z06 Corvette, a Ferrari 512 BB and a Firebird, all titled “found abandoned.”
The Porsche clip ends with the car gleaming on the shop floor. Whether it runs, and whether its numbers match the script on its hood, would have to come from a follow-up video that WD Detailing has not posted.
Should the next owner keep J.G.’s gold stripes and the “912” hood script, or strip the car back to factory paint?
Sources: WD Detailing, TikTok video, October 12, 2026; Porsche Newsroom, 912 technical data and Carrera RS 2.7 history.
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