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Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 12 2005, 11:42 AM
I came out to the car this morning to find the windshield completely coated with frost--except where the windshield wipers had rested. Ho-boy, and my ice scraper is in my other car, 15 minutes away! Good thing the SSIs work so well; it took about 3 minutes to clear the windshield off completely!
That was fine, because I had some other stuff to deal with. I'll let you see in the photo below what I was doing with the car.
People gave me some very funny looks on my way in to work. I wonder why??? 
--DD
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Posted by: iiibdsiil Jan 12 2005, 11:49 AM
My driving would never allow for that, unless you strapped it down really good to the roll cage.
Posted by: Root_Werks Jan 12 2005, 11:55 AM
Funny Dave, yeah, I bet you got a few looks driving around like that. Boy, seeing that picture sure makes me miss the sunshine. The days are starting to get longer, but man, cold, wet and still too short. Dark when I go to work, dark when I get home. Bummer. Another month and things will be much better. 
Posted by: AZ914 Jan 12 2005, 12:49 PM
Great pic Dave! 
Once I drove across town with a 9 foot ficus tree sticking out the top. Didn't even lose that many leaves!
Posted by: Stutgart46 Jan 12 2005, 01:07 PM
Hey Dave is that the "Corporate Ladder"?
Posted by: Demick Jan 12 2005, 01:12 PM
| QUOTE (AZ914 @ Jan 12 2005, 10:49 AM) |
| I drove across town with a 9 foot ficus tree sticking out the top. Didn't even lose that many leaves! |
I did almost the same thing. I bought a 10 foot fruitless mulberry tree and drove home with it in the passenger seat sticking out the roof. The ironic part is, that the smallest car we own was the only one capable of transporting the tree.
I tried to hold it vertical while I drove, but anything over 20mph just about broke my arm off. Luckily, I only had to go less than a mile.
I should'a taken a picture.
Demick
Posted by: seanery Jan 12 2005, 01:20 PM
When I went tree shopping, I drove the teener, too!
Posted by: mike_the_man Jan 12 2005, 01:23 PM
Good one Dave! And some people call these cars impractical! (My girlfriend being one of them.)
Posted by: ClayPerrine Jan 12 2005, 01:40 PM
Take your 914 to the grocery store sometime. It's great fun to watch the stock boy's face as you load 2 carts worth of groceries into this little car. 
Just make sure you separate the frozen stuff and put it in the FRONT trunk. Otherwise it will be thawed before you get home 
Posted by: JOHNMAN Jan 12 2005, 02:02 PM
Nice looking 1974.
What ladder... I bet that they were just jealous.
Posted by: Root_Werks Jan 12 2005, 03:15 PM
| QUOTE (Stutgart46 @ Jan 12 2005, 11:07 AM) |
| Hey Dave is that the "Corporate Ladder"? |
Posted by: jr91472 Jan 12 2005, 03:44 PM
atta boy Dave,
Reminds me of the time my girlfriend and I (now my wife) picked up her grandmother at the airport in the 914 
The grandmother sat in the center with her beehive hairdo blowin in the wind.
talk about funny looks
Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 12 2005, 05:01 PM
Heh... The tree stories remind me that my GF and I picked up a ~8 foot (fake) tree a while back in the 914. We put the tree on the passenger floorboard, then she got into the car and worked her way around it.
Actually, the ladder was further down in the car. The center console and the inner longitudinal held it in place quite well!! I was able to take left-hand turns "at speed" quite easily, and the right-hand turns were a little slower and not quite as easy.
--DD
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Posted by: MattR Jan 12 2005, 05:05 PM
One time I had to drive with an 8 ft bookshelf in my fiat 124. I put it in the passenger seat and held onto it with my right hand. So I couldnt see out the ride side and shifting was near impossible. I ended up only going about a block though... it was a sight to see though!
Posted by: pete-stevers Jan 12 2005, 05:12 PM
Its fantastic that someone gets to enjoy their fourteen at this time of year, We had snow and gobs of salt on every road round here. 
Next sunny dry day and I am getting permit, may not bring the ladder....
Posted by: scott thacher Jan 12 2005, 05:23 PM
well the worst i ever did was a bought my dad a portor cable compressor and nail gun kit for xmas, the box measured about 3 foot by 18 inches by 2 foot. would not have been a big deal but my gf was with me. i put it on the engine lid and put straps around the targa bar, and just closed the doors with the windows open
Posted by: Elliot Cannon Jan 12 2005, 05:27 PM
Ladder?? I thought that was a spoiler. Reminds me of driving home from Home Depot with ten foot sections of rain gutter sticking through the sun roof of my 911.
Cheers, Elliot
PS Nice car!!!
Posted by: Midtowner Jan 12 2005, 07:19 PM
This reminds me of the time my best buddy won a Super Bowl Lunch from the local Subways sandwich joint. He ended up transporting 70 soft drink containers and 70 foot-long sandwiches in his 914 with no front hood. Only place for the drinks was in the front. Cup lids were flying away and drinks sloshing about as he was driving down Highway 280. Other drivers were visibly pointing out the window and laughing at my friend! It was a hilarious sight to see!
Posted by: jim912928 Jan 12 2005, 07:23 PM
Dave...you have a great looking car! My "why did you haul that in that" story....My older brother and I went and got a xmas tree in his 63 corvair. Tree in front trunk and us driving with our heads out the window!
Posted by: Gint Jan 12 2005, 07:52 PM
I'm still amazed you're actually driving a 914! Nice lookin ride too...
Posted by: elwood-914 Jan 12 2005, 09:18 PM
Aw your a light weight Dave, put a lumber rack on there and carry some pipe too.
Posted by: Sparky Jan 12 2005, 09:52 PM
| QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ Jan 12 2005, 03:01 PM) |
| I was able to take left-hand turns "at speed" quite easily, and the right-hand turns were a little slower and not quite as easy. |
Wait your 914 runs?! Since when?!! Dammit I need to pay more attention to whats going on here. Gosh it looks sweet, even with the "custom" Superbird wooden spolier.
My best,
Mike D.
Posted by: Rob Ways Jan 12 2005, 11:10 PM
| QUOTE |
| The tree stories remind me that my GF and I picked up a ~8 foot (fake) tree a while back in the 914. We put the tree on the passenger floorboard, then she got into the car and worked her way around it. |
I knew you were a tree hugger!
Posted by: DJsRepS Jan 13 2005, 07:32 AM
Sure is a nice looking 914 there Dave or DD as they call you. Did you find the one that smaked out your tail light a couple months back now that sucked.
Posted by: Joe Ricard Jan 13 2005, 08:13 AM
"One time at band camp........."
Most verstile cars around. I get looks too when I unpack the car at the Autocross event. 4 tires, floor jack, jack stands, umbrella, folding chair, tool box, cooler, big bag of clothes (rain gear etc.) torque wrench Helmet, etc .
Carried 250 sq. ft. of ceramic tile with mortar, buckets and other tools.
Posted by: ClayPerrine Jan 13 2005, 08:15 AM
| QUOTE (Rob Ways @ Jan 12 2005, 11:10 PM) |
| The tree stories remind me that my GF and I picked up a ~8 foot (fake) tree a while back in the 914. We put the tree on the passenger floorboard, then she got into the car and worked her way around it. |
This is wide open for someone to make a joke about your girlfriend's "bush" or something similar......
Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 13 2005, 11:58 AM
I'm pretty sure that even you guys are too smart to joke at the expense of a female lawyer with PMS...
Thanks for the compliments on the car, but it actually looks a lot worse in person. The back half is nice and shiney (except for the scrapes you can see by the left-rear taillight--GRRR!!!) but the front half has completely dead sun-damaged paint. I'll have to fix that some day, but the mortgage is just eating up my funds.
No clue who bashed the car. It's useable now (even looks OK if you squint) and I have higher priorities frankly. Like packing up all my stuff and moving.
--DD
Posted by: Flat VW Jan 13 2005, 01:04 PM
I have been known to do fire alarm service work out of mine.
It is a great battery hauler!
My favorite activity for the car is attending fire alarm inspections, so much better thana truck. When you pull up in the 914 they can know you are done installing. 
Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 13 2005, 05:48 PM
Today, I wound up parked next to one of very few cars out there that can make the 914 look large....
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Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 13 2005, 05:48 PM
Check the license plate....
--DD
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Posted by: rdauenhauer Jan 13 2005, 07:07 PM
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| Wait your 914 runs?! Since when?!! |
Im curious too, after all those yrs and countless mebers offers (some not so generous) , What ended up being the magic bullit?
Posted by: DJsRepS Jan 14 2005, 04:30 AM
I found one smaller it is an older Fiat 500. It is 4pass, sun roof, front trunk and rear motor.
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Posted by: DJsRepS Jan 14 2005, 04:33 AM
My ole 014 is parked in front of it but side by side trust me this car is small like the clown car at the circus.
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Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 14 2005, 03:35 PM
| QUOTE (rdauenhauer @ Jan 13 2005, 05:07 PM) |
| Im curious too, after all those yrs and countless mebers offers (some not so generous) , What ended up being the magic bullit? |
Having Brad drag it off to HPH...
There were a half-dozen little things wrong with it (some of which I know I fixed, but either fixed wrong or they went bad again while the car sat) and a couple of larger ones.
The car still does not run completely "right", but it runs pretty decently.
--DD
Posted by: Dave_Darling Jan 14 2005, 03:38 PM
| QUOTE (DJsRepS @ Jan 14 2005, 02:30 AM) |
| I found one smaller it is an older Fiat 500. It is 4pass, sun roof, front trunk and rear motor. |
In Italian "cinquecento" (CHINK-wuh-CHENT-oh). I remember those from when I went to Italy as a young kid... I thought they were very amusing. When I went back to Europe in '01, I only saw one of them in Paris.
--DD
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