How did you get into 914's? Options

[Todd Enlund]

I wanted an Elise and they weren't available at the time. The 914 seemed like the next best thing. I also thought it would be awesome with a Subaru turbo engine in it.
Turns out: it is. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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I figure I can build a better Elise.

[grantsfo]

It is fun to read this one agian!

[purple]

My parents had a red 71 before I was born. I spent the entire pregnancy in a 914... It was the only car they had and they had it for 2 years. My dad knows all kinds of cool tricks for doing things on the car and he's just in love with the fact I can find really good parts for it now and jumps for joy when we replace stuff on mine that was broken or sloppy on his. we just did the shifter bushings on mine this weekend.

My boss also is an aircooled P-car fan and actually found this 76 for me.

it doesnt hurt that i love all things 70's....the pantera is my dream car, i love the music, all that. growing up in the 90's was just lame as far as music is concerned, you can hear only so much nirvana...

[SGB]

it doesnt hurt that i love all things 70's, i love the music, all that. growing up in the 90's was just lame as far as music is concerned, you can hear only so much nirvana...

Smart kid...
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[geniusanthony]

My inteest began in 1995 when I was 15 yrs old. I was still riding my YSR50 around in the summer and spotted from the corner of my eye a black sports car I had never seen before. I was on a one-way street and rather than going around the block I stopped a few houses down and rode up the sidewalk to get a closer look. Turned out to be a 73 2L and the owner was eager to show it off and teach me all about 914s. He explained the battery tray, hellhole, demostrated by standing on the door sill and opening the door, gaps and what-not.
Begged and pleaded my parents to take a look but parts were expensive and I moved on. Beauty of a car though. Black, Lowered, Konis, Chrome steelies and caps, factory console, I think negative stripes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) and a loud exhaust. He took me for a ride and slalomed betwen the yellow lines on the road at 50 or 60 mph. I was a lil scared but had a blast at the same time.

Years went by, Army,Wife,Son,House... Last year before my previous deployment I was in Yuma for an exercise and spotted my current and 1st 914 in the seattle classifieds. I took Christmas leave before I deployed and did a PPI on a tired but complete 71 with webers.

After leaving the country my wife bought it for me and upon my return in may I took more leave and over the next year I stripped, flared, built a good engine and got her back on the road before I deployed again.

So it took me 10 years but I am now a happy (and busy) camper. Pics are as delivered and somewhere in the middle

[Chuck]

A friend of mine had one in college. Showed me pictures and I was hooked.

Junior year we got a place off campus and he was going to drive it up from Myrtle Beach to campus (Washington, DC) after Christmas break. I remember being so excited as I rode up in the cab to our place after break, looking up and down the street for Dave's car. When I got in I immediately asked him where his car was. He handed me an aluminum cake pan and said "here it is." I was obviously confused. Turns out the plastic fuel lines leaked, caught fire and his car burned to the ground on the side of the road. All he had left was the Porsche hood emblem and few other things. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)


The procurement of a 914 was something I had to wait until I had the time, location and resources. Finally picked one up in April. Turns out my uncle has owned a few of them over the years and is a big fan as well. He says I rode in one of his when I was little but I have no memory of it.

[OmegaM1A1]

My dad had a 914 and he noted that I quite liked the car both aesthetically and performance-wise, so he gave it to me. =]

[stephenaki]

Friend of mine had a perfect black 914 back in Hawaii when I was in High school, just loved the look of the car and how it was down low to the ground.

Tried to convince my first wife to let me get one in 86 but that didn't work. Thankfully I scored a homerun with the second wife so now I have a 914 and some other toys. Just wish the car was here already! It snowed this past Sunday here in Germany and I realy need a vehicle to get to work in that will keep me out of the snow!

[hydroliftin]

lets hear it.

I met a girl in a bar back in '78. She had a 914 and she let me drive her home in it. Don't remember much about the girl, but I never forgot the 914.

[WyKev]

I've wanted a 914 "with flares" since I saw one in a magazine in the 70's. Then I saw article on a V8 twin turbo with monster flares and steam roller tires. It was the coolest thing I ever saw and still is! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

Now that I have one, I get to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) and (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) till I get it the way I see it in my head (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

[dave29]

I purchased a 914-6 used in 1974. Loved the car!.The owners son at Victory Porsche in Calif. owned the car.
1970, silver, Ansa exhaust, Ginther suspension, 22mm sway bars, 5 point harness. Drove it for about a year before rolling it racing a modified 356. TOTAL!.I have never been so sick in my life. Young, stupid and regretful.

[rebelmdot]

When I was 4 years old we pulled up in my mom's station wagon next to one at a traffic light. It was white and has been my favorite car since. Bought mine in 1994 and began complete rebuild about a month ago! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

[Twise]

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I grew up here - I would say I was born there, but I wasn't. I was born a few miles up the road. I went to work with my father as often as I could. His 914-6 is to date the quickest car I have ever been in, but mine is almost finished and I am pretty confident it will top his. My father managed the body shop at Stoddard through my childhood, and the boneyard there was my playground. I was raised on Porsche brand baby food. I have always loved 914's and cant wait to finish my current project, so I may begin a new one.

[Steve Thacker]

The little redheaded Harlot was sitting up to the middle of the doors in weeds and I was out riding my bicycle. I just had to turn around for a second look. Now she sports a 6k paint job and all custom everywhere else. For all the trouble and money she has put me through. I should have kept riding. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

What a sucker I was. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

[rebelmdot]

My 914's original owner was a good friend of my wife. In fact, she was a passenger in the car on the day we met. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
She always loved the car, so when it became available, about 5 years later, I bought it!
The rest ...shall we say... is history. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif)

I know that your post was over a year ago, do you still have her? I live an hour south of Nashville in Columbia Tennessee. My 914 is in ICU right now, but my 911 is running fine. Let me know if you do any rides!

[749142]

im 17 but ever since i can remember my father has always had 3 914s and at times 6 of em. some were parts cars others were too good to be parted. now we are done to three agian. all three are worth being restored. well 2 of em are one was already restored when he but it. my dads red porche the one u see for my pic he bought in taft along with my yellow 74 and two truckloads of parts that came with them, for a litte under 900 bucks!!!!!!!! it was an estate sail. guy died and didnt have anyboy to give the cars to. but i grew up with these cars and well ill never grow out of them thats for sure. ill download some pics to my pc some time and show all three. my dad has the 75 that was completely restored stored up int he garage. hes afraid if he drives it it will get hit by some idiot who deserves a beating for it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif). mine is a work in progress. so is my dads canary yellow 71. that car he bought for 650 bucks. guy had here in town. he was having all kinds of troubles with his ljet system. he and my dad made an agreement and later that day my dad comes back with tools and fixes the car and drives off with it. that guy had such a sick look on his face.so thats how my obsession started. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)
steven

[black73]

My 914's original owner was a good friend of my wife. In fact, she was a passenger in the car on the day we met. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
She always loved the car, so when it became available, about 5 years later, I bought it!
The rest ...shall we say... is history. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif)

I know that your post was over a year ago, do you still have her? I live an hour south of Nashville in Columbia Tennessee. My 914 is in ICU right now, but my 911 is running fine. Let me know if you do any rides!

The 914 or the wife? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I still have both! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grouphug.gif)

I saw you were in TN in another thread and was wondering if you were nearby. My 914 is put away for the winter but we can certainly do something in the spring. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

[Porcharu]

That's easy. This place and the people that support the cars!
I had a 1st gen VW scirocco that I was building into a track only car. After getting the cage installed I started to reassemble it. Can't buy a new windshield, can't get the windshield gasket, can't buy side windows, hoods are almost impossible to find. I gave up before I spent a fortune tracking down NLA parts to put on a car that would get banged up.
Then California changed the smog laws to exempt 75' and older and I started to look for a fun car to drive on the street and the occasional track day. I looked at Z's but never really liked them that much, looked at 510's - to hard to find one that wasn't beat to crap, thought about a 2002 and then I remembered the 914 I drove at an autocross back in school. Started looking online for 914's and found the old site and all of the great info and the vendors - then I found my car in the classified ads, it was only 20 minutes away. Bought it that weekend, been having fun the whole time, even if the silly thing has been on jack stands most of the time I have owned it.
Steve

[914dave]

Two weeks after my ex moves out to find herself(move in with co worker (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) ) A guy I work with asks me if I want to go to an all Porsche swap meet at Ski Roundtop PA. Being a car guy, 67 RS Camaro, worked in and engine shop for 2.5 years, helped friends with street rods and stock cars for ten years, I say yes. We go and I see all these cool little cars including a Yellow 73 2.0 with polished fuchs and a Signal orange six. Everyone driving one has a huge smile on their face. LIttle did I know that they were smiling because they're usually on jack stands !! L0L The guy with the Yellow 2.0 says I should get one cause they're so much fun. Three months later I have three including a 73 2.0 Marathon Blue. Five years later I find a 74 1.8 that's beautiful and swap all the rebuilt parts into her . Plan on a turbo IV and six supsension. Now there's a 3.2 six in the corner of the garage, flares on the way and I'm trying to find the money for a 915 and a Wevo kit. I can't help myself but I don't care I'm happy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

[LarryR]

Just watching mildly equiped 914's kick but on the track got my attention.