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Posted by: Elliot Cannon Aug 16 2017, 06:12 PM

You So. Cal. peeps might remember THOMAS from Germany. He is in the states on vacation with his niece and stopped by our place in Paso Robles. THOMAS was a fixture at most of the west coast events. He finally decided to go home to Germany and he has another 914 now. He promised to be a little more active on the web site and he said he would now that he has a 914 again. (Our good friend Sean Connery standing on his right).


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Posted by: Steve Aug 16 2017, 06:16 PM

Great guy. I swung by his machine shop years ago to have him shave down my shift rod for the PMS firewall bearing. He wouldn't take any money to do it.

Posted by: euro911 Aug 16 2017, 06:48 PM

T H O M A S sent me some PMs a while back saying he was planning to visit ... not sure when he's scheduled to drop in to the So Cal area ... I'll shoot him a PM

It'll be great to visit with him again ... we (Dianne & I) miss the old bearded fart

Sean Connery's come and gone ... Daniel Craig is the new Bond

Posted by: 914_teener Aug 16 2017, 06:58 PM

Good to see!

Ah ser gut.

The Haloween Runs were fun.

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Aug 16 2017, 07:17 PM

Sean Connery will ALWAYS be, "Bond, James Bond".

Posted by: 76-914 Aug 16 2017, 07:18 PM

In the classifieds, I had offered to buy a slider inorder to make a locking tool for the tranny. That weekend when I went to an early G&R event Thomas walked up and handed me one. He wouldn't accept payment and did not know me from Adam. Good guy. My nephew moved back to Germany, too!

Posted by: euro911 Aug 16 2017, 07:25 PM

'LIKE'

That's T H O M A S for ya

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 16 2017, 08:04 PM

He looks a bit dry ...

Posted by: euro911 Aug 16 2017, 08:17 PM

a bit? ...

Posted by: jim_hoyland Aug 16 2017, 08:22 PM

Good to hear. THOMAS helped me many times with my 924, organized the Holloween Runs, and made all Joe Sharps Bar-B-Ques. Those were some of the best times !

Posted by: Mike D. Aug 17 2017, 05:31 PM

Hi T H O M A S !

I still have a Thomas built transmission in my garage... waiting...

Posted by: euro911 Aug 17 2017, 06:15 PM

I have three ... one side-shifter in the 'BB', the tail-shifter that came out of Dianne's 71, and another side-shifter that's going into the '71 when the new 1.9L goes in.

T H O M A S only charged me $60 for rebuilding the tail-shifter, but only because it needed a new 1st gear and associated synchros, IIRC

The other trannys only needed new seal/gasket kits that I purchased from Pelican.

Posted by: Steve Aug 22 2017, 07:14 PM

Saw Thomas and his Niece at Diablo's in Vegas. What a treat, visiting Vegas racer in his natural habitat and running into Thomas and his Niece. Vegas Racer aka JP will be posting a pic later.

Posted by: ndfrigi Aug 22 2017, 07:21 PM

Transmission on my last 75 1.8FI I bought from a member built by Thomas and still running or shift smoothly.

Posted by: VegasRacer Aug 22 2017, 09:45 PM

Steve had sent me a PM saying he was coming to Vegas for business, so I was expecting to see him at Diablo's today.
We were both delightfully surprised when Thomas and his niece stopped by on their last day before returning to Germany.