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Posted by: 914Sixer Oct 1 2026, 04:14 PM

$9 to cover envelopes and shipping

paypal.me/markheard1


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Posted by: Puebloswatcop Oct 1 2026, 06:13 PM

Hi Mark,
I'd like 2 of them if you have them still. Let me know a total and ill send you payment.

Thanks,
Kevin

Posted by: scallyk9 Oct 2 2026, 12:14 PM

I'd like two. Engine bay bling! Will PayPal.

Posted by: DC_neun_vierzehn Oct 2 2026, 02:23 PM

I’ll take 2.

Posted by: 914Sixer Oct 2 2026, 04:48 PM

Had to up the shipping for price increase Oct 3- Jan 2027

Posted by: porbmw Oct 3 2026, 12:42 AM

Hi Mark
Could you put me down for 2, and let me know charges.
Thx
Paul

Posted by: StarBear Oct 3 2026, 06:39 AM

@http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=24231
@http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=104
Were these nuts originally yellow zinc or matte nickel? I have two and Theo both the latter though would like to “upgrade” if originality-appropriate.
Thanks!

Posted by: JeffBowlsby Oct 3 2026, 08:34 AM

The posts/nuts are for the early cars before the later sloped style realy board covers were offered (necesssitated by the added seatbelt reels. The posts and nuts I recall seeing were yellow zinc, that does not mean they might not have been something else. Sorry I am no help to you.

Posted by: 914Sixer Oct 3 2026, 01:09 PM

Post and nut were yellow zinc. When zinc faded parts got polished to chrome like finsh.

Posted by: wonkipop Oct 3 2026, 02:35 PM

i think @http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=3457 is right with his comment.

there is a lot of nuts etc on mine that have long lost their zinc chromate coating.
its not just a matter of polishing it off. its a sacrificial coating in terms of corrosion.
naturally disappears rather than corrosion attacking the metal of the nut or bolt itself.

i go with the ageing theory of leaving it all alone rather than renewing it since i am not restoring my car - been going down the preservation road. unless i have to change a part for purposes of maintenance.

Posted by: StarBear Oct 3 2026, 02:38 PM

Thanks, all! Very helpful.
Will keep my preserved nut as @http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=24231 .

Posted by: wonkipop Oct 3 2026, 02:48 PM

i am like you. had the car so long some of the coatings have disappeared in front of my eyes over the 37 years. i don't even remember some of them. ones i do remember are the suspension fixing plates in the front trunk. they used to be cadmium plated when i bought the car in 89. its gradually disappeared. and i have never polished them.

it certainly matters to somebody fully restoring a 914 back to delivery condition.
if i was doing that i would make every effort to get it right. just so i could watch it all disappear again.