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Posted by: Garold Shaffer Nov 27 2015, 04:12 PM

Looking for video on 914s I came across this vintage video I'm guessing from the late 70's link ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxN3g2YyOE

Turn down your volume weird music. Anyway from 1:45 - 2:20 shows a badly wrecked 914. Looks to be a 74.


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Posted by: RobW Nov 27 2015, 05:14 PM

That's bad. Don't let the wife see that.....

Posted by: Cracker Nov 27 2015, 05:25 PM

...don't think that was survivable. Stating the obvious, of course.

Tony

Posted by: RobW Nov 27 2015, 05:39 PM

This guy lucked out....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-P6Mfb49o

Anybody we know?

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Nov 27 2015, 06:25 PM

I remember when that happened. I think it was someone who was on this web site a long time ago. Anybody remember this?

Posted by: 914time Nov 27 2015, 07:14 PM

Ouch.

Even when you're the good driver, something terrible can happen.

Posted by: Mark Henry Nov 27 2015, 11:28 PM

Original thread on this:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=208199&st=0

I hope the DUI driver got a major boning on this and still has the size 7 poopshoot.

Posted by: 914_teener Nov 27 2015, 11:44 PM

No....not the same car.

I met the guy in that video at the G and R who got rear ended.

Was taking her to court and I hope he got something out of it. He was really lucky to survive at all.

Really nice guy.

Posted by: RobW Nov 28 2015, 12:12 PM

Glad to hear he made it OK. Just curious if he lost a kidney, or was paralyzed as mentioned.... tough to think anybody would make it though a wreck like that in a 914 without something residual....

Posted by: hot_shoe914 Nov 29 2015, 09:31 AM

Ouch for sure, looks a lot worse than my LE crash back in '90.

Posted by: RobW Nov 29 2015, 10:29 AM

Ouch. That's painful to see a LE in that condition.

What'd you do?

Posted by: DirtyCossack Nov 29 2015, 10:57 AM

I'm yet to drive mine, but I'm assuming you have to drive 914s like you do a motorcycle: assume you are invisible.

Posted by: mbseto Nov 30 2015, 09:30 AM

Assume you are a target. I had a driver in heavy traffic look me right in the eye and realize he could take my spot in the lane by sheer force, which he then did.

Posted by: RobW Nov 30 2015, 01:26 PM

You have to watch the driver and not the car....

Posted by: ClayPerrine Nov 30 2015, 08:02 PM

When driving a 914... be paranoid.

Assume everyone is actively trying to crash into you. Because they are. It has been proven to me over and over.

Keep your head on a swivel. Most people are not "drivers", they are commuters. They are fiddling with the radio, talking on the phone, or TEXTING.

I always drive like I am invisible.


Oh.. and did I say... Be Paranoid.


One other thing. It makes you realize why motorcyclists ride the way they do. I had a conversation with a couple of bikers at a gas station, and they told me that they sometimes don't even see other bikes or very small cars like ours.