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Posted by: RickS Jun 30 2020, 12:03 AM

This will sound super strange to many of you, but even though the SC was a more refined, comfortable car all around, with great body lines, I outgrew it. As I hit 65 I felt like more of an entitled dick driving it, especially with rampant unemployment and soon to be record evictions and foreclosures. I know this is my take and not reflective of the majority of owners of exoticy foreign cars.



The good news is I never get that entitled rich dick feeling driving the 914. Many don’t know what it is, other than a it’s cool little car. Those that do know ( pre-COVID) rush over and want to talk about it. They had one, still have one, or Know someone who had one. 914s are cars people love and are super approachable. They are quirky, fun little boxes on wheels which either sound like VW bugs, 911s, or roaring V8s. And that’s the beauty, you never know.

So now the 914 is my one and only other than my DD. So long SC, it’s off to NY tomorrow.

Posted by: kroelofsen Jun 30 2020, 12:46 AM

Think you are right... Pity the 911 was a nice car. But 914's are great and drive very well...

Posted by: sixnotfour Jun 30 2020, 08:05 AM

Good Choice would have been even easier if the 911 was a Targa.. I have a 911 I should part with..

Posted by: Root_Werks Jun 30 2020, 08:53 AM

99.9% of my driving is in my $600 truck.

Posted by: rhodyguy Jun 30 2020, 09:04 AM

pretty comfortable driving around in a 13 yo Pt Cruiser loser car. With 235hp...

Posted by: Cairo94507 Jun 30 2020, 09:17 AM

Great! So now you are telling me when I get my Six home I can't drive it because people may think I am an entitled dick?

Posted by: rhodyguy Jun 30 2020, 09:18 AM

Only if you tell them how much you have in to it.

Posted by: Coondog Jun 30 2020, 09:40 AM

We just want you to get your Six home so you can drive it.
What’s the status on it, I thought AASE Motorsports was finishing it up.


Now my 2 cents on entitlement.

If you work hard you can have whatever you want, enjoy it.
If you studied and got the education in life to move ahead then good for you.
If you were at the right place at the right time then good for you.
If you just got plain lucky in life then good for you.

But if your able bodied and set on your ass all day and collect all the free crap the government gives you then I say your the entitled one. Only in America do we reward all the POSs who do nothing.....That’s entitlement.

Posted by: aturboman Jun 30 2020, 09:49 AM

Well said!

Posted by: rjames Jun 30 2020, 10:26 AM

Doesn't sound strange at all. Sounds like human decency and compassion to me. I don't [usually] begrudge anyone for what they do with their $, but I get not wanting to feel like you're flaunting wealth when those around you may be struggling. Plus the 914 is a cooler car. (although that SC looks very nice)

Posted by: dangrouche Jun 30 2020, 10:54 AM

16 years ago, I owned an 1983 Cabriolet and 1974 2.0 at the same time. I could only drive one at time. I sold the taildragger just as you did cuz of the handling experience of the teener. Glad to know someone made a similar decision.

Posted by: RickS Jun 30 2020, 10:59 AM

Didn’t quite know what to expect for responses and have to say I am very pleasantly surprised. Robert summed it up very well. Thank you

I have zero issue with people having and driving as many nice as they want. I was there and completely understand. Yeah owning three Porsches at one time sums it up and I am small-time compared to people with collections. But i’m Just not there any more.

Cairo, no worries. My 914 was bastardized into a 6 and puts a big smile on my face every time I hammer it through the twisties.

Great responses. Thanks guys

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Jun 30 2020, 11:24 AM

I get what Rick was saying, I think? Which is less about whether what others think is right or wrong and more about the fact that you're along for whatever ride that looks like as you can't control it—and you either care or don't care. That's up to each of us, and I echo those who say if you worked for it, you don't owe anyone an explanation. And yet, the thing I like least about my 911 is probably its message to others…which is also funny because plenty of people out there spend more each year on dining out, vacations, home improvement, boats, planes, etc etc. Or sales tax as they hop from one car to the next.

Share Rick's sentiments on the 914 by comparison, and made a similar decision with my 911 SC years ago—though for different reasons, alluded to here at around 34:00 (914 discussion starts a bit earlier, around 25:00 or 30:00, for those interested).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smaV2JIhwdE

Posted by: cali914 Jun 30 2020, 05:15 PM

That 911 is my favorite car especially with the little duck tail on the back. As far entitled DICK Those that usually matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter.

Posted by: mepstein Jun 30 2020, 05:40 PM

When you drive a 914, people don’t think your entitled because they think it’s a Fiat.

Posted by: KELTY360 Jun 30 2020, 05:41 PM

NARP is good.

Posted by: Cairo94507 Jun 30 2020, 06:36 PM

Well said guys. Greg especially. Yeah, my car was at Aase for the mechanicals to be completed and it is now in the incredibly capable hands of Jim and crew to get it across the finish line. We are in the last 100 yards of the marathon.

Posted by: Big Len Jun 30 2020, 06:57 PM

I never gave it much consideration, but I kind of agree.

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Jun 30 2020, 07:30 PM

This.

Posted by: davehg Jun 30 2020, 07:48 PM

Bernie and I think you have your priorities about right, Rick.

But you could’ve at least called me to say you were selling.

Posted by: RickS Jun 30 2020, 10:46 PM

Damn, Dave. Would have loved to keep it local, especially with a good friend. But with two 914s and all those nice bikes, how could you fit it in? Think it is in Montana heading east, so if you really hurry...

A couple of weeks ago you and your son were heading up Issaquah-Fall City road in your black GT when a skinny weasel on a road bike waved at you. Thank god you didn’t take aim and run me down!

Posted by: Amphicar770 Jul 1 2020, 07:31 AM

I am with you 100%. I've owned many faster, "better" vehicles yet none provides more enjoyment or man to machine connection than the 914. I've bought and sold more cars than I can count over the years but the 914 is one of two "keepers".

I also get the image thing. When we are younger we tend to believe that high priced cars, etc. make us look cool or successful. As we get older we realize that often they make us look like an entitled, self-indulgent tool. When you drive a 911 people will often give you the finger, in the 914 they are more likely to give a thumbs up.

Spend your money as you wish. If you have been fortunate be thankful and realize that no matter what you think, that luck played a role and you almost certainly did not get there on your own. Same for the less fortunate, who some herecall POSs because they rely on social welfare instead of corporate and tax code welfare (like all the those who register their exoticars in Montana because they think only POS's should have to pay taxes).

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Jul 1 2020, 08:55 AM

So what's the other one—or is it a car/boat?

Posted by: campbellcj Jul 2 2020, 07:02 AM

Same-ish. It's liberating as well as cheap to stick with my beater F150 for the majority of purposes. Pretty much 6 days a week now. I don't have to worry about it at all and it's dependable as heck. I see very little point anymore in taking a really nice car a few miles up the road thru the sea of clueless LA drivers so it can deteriorate in the sun, tree sap and bird crap of the office parking lot all day. Some of my work neighbors do that and I think it's