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Posted by: Part Pricer Jan 25 2007, 03:25 PM

I went out to the mailbox this afternoon to retrieve my daily dose of bills, credit card offers, and other junk mail. As I walked back to the house, I started going through the pile. Well, when I got to the item below, I stopped and smiled.

How many people remember the eBay 914 parts ads with this model? Better yet, who remembers the effort to chip in to buy nude photos? Ahh...those were the days when the 914 community would come together for a worthy cause.

Our parts who...er, model now graces the cover of the Penny Saver.

Posted by: faux916 Jan 25 2007, 03:29 PM

Everytime I see her I want to buy a set of Cibie headlights.

Posted by: orthobiz Jan 25 2007, 03:34 PM

The Pennysaver reminded me of being in college on Long Island and combing in the car ads and being first to look at a 2002 or a 914 or a TR6. My best friend Danny and I would buy and sell cars every summer, keeping select ones (my Signal Orange 71 1.7 liter among them) for ourselves.

Or, bringing the midnight shift guy a bagel and a cup of coffee to get the first copy of BuyLines straight from the printing plant. Sometimes so early that we'd call people at 10 o'clock the day before it came out.

Maybe even driving into Manhattan to buy the inner sections of the Sunday NY Times on Saturday night (7PM in Times Square). Vendors would be amazed that we didn't care if it even had a front page. We'd pore through the Sports section (car ads in the back) and start calling.

Back in those days, traveling to Westchester or NJ was a big deal, after all, why bother when clean cars could be had within a radius of 30 or 40 miles?

Now, I'm in Michigan combing the web for a car and looking at roundtrip plane fares! Things have definitely changed...

AND

The cover of the Pennysaver never looked like THAT!

biz

Posted by: faux916 Jan 25 2007, 03:37 PM

Posted by: type47 Jan 25 2007, 03:38 PM

how much would it have cost to move that distributor a couple of inches either left or right?

Posted by: jd74914 Jan 25 2007, 06:52 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROTFMAO

Posted by: Midtowner Jan 25 2007, 08:22 PM

Eeew! Too many muscles. I'm not into that kind of thing.

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Jan 26 2007, 01:37 AM

Don't like going out with girls that can kick your ass?

Posted by: 736conver Jan 26 2007, 02:18 AM

I remember those ebay listings. Wasnt the ebay id "mastersteve" something. he bought my buddies 914-6 2.7 conversion.

Posted by: jd74914 Jan 28 2007, 07:19 PM

Yep, you are correct Brian . . . he had a ton of 914s. He always had a v8 and a /6 for sale . . . we almost bought a /6 project from him.