What a waste, An undriven perfectly good 914 Options

[Spoke]

Stopped to get unbelievably expensive gas yesterday at a local gas station.
Minding my own business, I overheard the woman pumping gas next to
me talking to her son in the passenger seat telling him which gas station
they were at. The son was on a cell phone to someone.

Then she turns to me and asks "what year is that?". At first, I thought, should
I say "71" or "71 914". She asked just the year, so I just said "71".
She called over to her son to "Tell dad its a '71".
She turned to me and said that they had a '76. Hmm, "a '76 914 or 911?" I asked.
She said "914, how many miles do you have on yours?". "80K", I responded.
She continued, "Ours has 10-11K." (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/blink.gif) Startled by the low mileage, I just
had to confirm, "You mean 11,000 miles?". "Yep, my husband bought it new and
put it in storage when he went to the Navy". "He was recently talking about
getting it back on the road". "He also has his high school graduation present,
a '71 Corvette".

What a waste of a perfectly good 914... and Vette. What would a '76 914 with
11K miles be worth these days? Not sure what size engine, condition, or accessories.
Maybe I should have asked if they wanted to sell it...

Spoke

[Jake Raby]

One of my customers has a 73 2 liter car with a whopping 150 miles on it... It sat around until 2003 and the engine was totally frozen as it had been stored in a basement. The body looks like new and not any rust at all. It still looks brand new! He sent me the engine to have rebuilt 100% factory(damn did I hate to reinstall that stock cam) because he wanted to get it going again.

The house that the car was stored in the basement of was tied up in probate for 20 some odd years and thats why the car was not driven or touched.

The guy that owns the car knows nothing about it, supposedly Seinfeld found out about it last month and is trying to buy the car through someone else. Who knows how much it will sell for.

Nothing blows me away as much as the French Chef with the very last VW Beetle vert ever sold in the US (documented) with only 27 miles on it when it showed up at my shop. It still had the dealer tag on it when I ripped out the stock engine and MassIVely replaced it with a carbon fiber equipped 2270... Now the car is a daily driver...... the owner of this restaurant owns the car www.joelrestaurant.com he is a great guy and damn does he love that car!