Gracing the Green in a 914: The first and only appearance of a Porsche 914 LE Can Am at an Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance event, 914 LE Can Am at the Cars and Coffee at the Concours Options

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The 2015 20th Anniversary of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, arguably the better of the two most prestigious car shows in the world, did a great service to a car that has long been overdue. It celebrated and honored the Porsche 914 as its featured marque for the 20th Anniversary of the Concours, displaying the 914 in unprecedented form. So much so, that it did not include any other classic Porsche models in the Porsche section. All the green was reserved just for the 914. Only a handful of other Porsche models were present at the Concours, a few in the Rally section and a few production cars in an assortment of other marques. But the Concours would have no other cars occupy the Porsche field to deter attention from the 914. In fact, it left a large open green in front of the display, commanding attention and demanding the respect it deserves. Only the rarest of the rare in the 914 family were on display at the Sunday Concours, save one impeccably restored 914/6. A 916 (11 made), a slew of historically significant 914/6 GT race cars, and the infamous one and only 350 bhp prototype 914/8 that belonged to Herr Pierch himself.

On the Saturday Cars and Coffee at The Concours event, a handful of 914s graced the Concours green as well, one of which being the rarest of the 914 productions cars sold to the public - the LE Can Am. A 'Creamsicle' no less, the rarer by almost half of the remaining two American Limited Edition Can Am production cars (Creamsicle and Bumblebee).

This is for the fans of the LE.

High Resolution pictures of the car are available for those interested. Enjoy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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I've bitten my tongue enough.

Tommy. I think I can speak for the masses in that you have completely blown this whole thing way out of proportion, and have turned it into the Tommy show. You now have 3 threads chock full of the same pics of your car.

Your car was NOT accepted into the concourse. It was ALLOWED to be one of the cars shown at the C&C event, along with many other makes and models. It had little to do with your specific car or you, as you'd like to believe, but more about how quickly you applied or possibly who you know.

Take note of the lack of comments in your separate threads, and then take note of how many of the few comments have a negative tone. Several of the posters IMO have been politely passive aggressive with their comments by being vague, yet fully open to their intended meaning. These would be the ones you just finished slamming for not being articulate

Your enthusiasm is well understood, and your militaristic planning of events is appreciated, but seriously man, tone it down a bit. Post the pics of the OTHER cars there, and stop bloviating and trying to make yourself the all important man in charge.

You really showed your ass in that begging for help repair thread, you had deleted prior to the event once people started calling you out, and you learned nothing from that, so why should we expect you pick up on any of these comments (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I have been posting all the pics of all the cars present at all the related events. The duplicates are because of separate threads. The East Coast Beach Party that I hosted have pictures from The 914 Experience which was also part of the reason for putting it on and also because not everybody is following all the threads. I want the ones in attendance to be able to see their pictures if they are not following other related threads. Not that I need to explain it. I have been sitting at my desk editing and posting pictures from the concours all day for people to enjoy.

If some of you guys are just going to continue bad-mouthing me when I've done nothing to any of you, just share the photos I took, if it's such a problem, then I'll just stop posting photos. You guys are being very rude and disrespectful and your behavior is hardly in any position to ridicule me - for what? Posting pictures of 914s that everybody has been waiting to see. I have more important things I need to do.

By the way, in regards to you saying my car was not accepted, it was allowed, there's no difference. Moreover, they asked me to bring it last year. I was late in doing registering it, so they asked me again to bring it this year. The mailer is simply a formality when you register. I'd be happy to show you the letter. You're making a lot of assumptions for no purpose other than to try to belittle me. Which is extraordinarily rude.