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Posted by: bandjoey Aug 28 2021, 08:15 AM

….Complain about the stick location?


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Posted by: NARP74 Aug 28 2021, 08:48 AM

Works for me

Posted by: mihai914 Aug 28 2021, 09:13 AM

Not my girlfriend...

20 years ago, I went with a good buddy to pickup his girlfriend at the bus station.

Needles to say, she had to sit in the middle while I was driving.

You coud tell from her face that she did not enjoy the ride.

A couple of years later, a similar situation happened going to a party. Yet again, the girlfriend had to sit in in the middle. She enjoyed it though...

Some prefer some don't.

Posted by: fixer34 Aug 28 2021, 10:57 AM

Looks like they are parking, so easy enough to move the shifter into reverse and out of the way.

Many years ago, I had a couple 'friends that were girls'; never dated either one. But they used to ride with me in the 914 on occasion. One of them was on the 'larger side' shall we say, so she got the passenger seat. The other one got the middle cushion and angled her legs into the passenger section. Was still a little interesting when dropping it into 5th...

Posted by: VegasRacer Aug 28 2021, 11:36 AM

Give a whole new meaning to 'Money Shift'.

Posted by: 914Sixer Aug 28 2021, 12:10 PM

Somehow my hand would slip off shifter and end up in the right place

Posted by: Front yard mechanic Aug 28 2021, 02:33 PM

You mean the dog leg? Born that way

Posted by: iankarr Aug 29 2021, 10:54 AM

the 901 being a slush box just took on new meaning...

Posted by: colingreene Aug 29 2021, 11:30 AM

Y'all need Jesus.

Posted by: oldie914 Aug 29 2021, 12:34 PM

Long ago, I think it was 1972; I drove through Paris with my buddy and our two girlfriends packed into my 914/6. Those were the days.

Posted by: mepstein Aug 29 2021, 01:19 PM

Yes, my 914 fit 4 people when I was in high school. Everyone was a lot thinner back then.

Posted by: windforfun Aug 29 2021, 03:44 PM

Perfect. You're bad. How dirty minds think a like.

Posted by: Quinn Moore Aug 29 2021, 05:51 PM

Worked out ok, up and down South Padre Island in my 1972 Zambini Green (in 1982). She sat in the middle. "She" became my wife. 37 yrs later....got another one, 2 mo. Ago. No questions asked. Life is good...... my old man lent me the $1500.00 to buy the first one.

Posted by: Front yard mechanic Aug 29 2021, 06:00 PM

Posted by: KELTY360 Aug 29 2021, 06:53 PM

Got another one?……..wife or 914?

Posted by: willieg Aug 29 2021, 06:55 PM

Did your girlfriend have the strength to push an MGA fast enough to bump start? Always a determinant to the success of a relationship.

Posted by: sixnotfour Aug 29 2021, 07:14 PM

Well my GF liked how the 70 seats could be Laid flat,, She was shorter ..1978

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Aug 29 2021, 10:11 PM

Cyndi said...when the working day is done, girls just wanna have FuN

Posted by: wonkipop Aug 30 2021, 06:23 AM

down here i got one over all of you guys..
the gear shift is right next to the passenger seat.
and when i put it into first at the lights----------


i don't have to get it into 5th.

Posted by: StarBear Aug 30 2021, 06:29 AM

Yep. BTDT.

Posted by: 930cabman Aug 30 2021, 07:08 AM

+1, was the MGA push test a qualifier for engagement?

Posted by: wonkipop Aug 30 2021, 07:30 AM

pardon me for having to share that.
but ............

Posted by: Quinn Moore Aug 30 2021, 07:52 AM

Ha,ha...(914).

QM

Posted by: Steve73 Aug 30 2021, 11:07 PM

Like my wife riding in my beetle. (no running 914.....yet)

Posted by: Mark Henry Aug 31 2021, 03:24 PM

HA!

My wife could push a fully loaded Westfalia with a trailer and a VW beetle on it. No BS, she did it at every gas station for 1500 miles home...of course I was very selective of the gas stations, parked on a hill, etc. You didn't have to get it rolling very fast, especially when hot.

IIRC that bus was the first time I installed a hot start fix.

I don't have that bus anymore, but I still have the wife.

Posted by: PatrickB Aug 31 2021, 03:59 PM

Another wife???? j/k

Posted by: ssuperflyoldguy Aug 31 2021, 05:04 PM

https://youtu.be/2-GqZIR0HUw

apologies if you've already seen this - please then refer to Vanishing Point & Kowalski

Posted by: TonyA Aug 31 2021, 06:56 PM

Nice but I thought there would be a girl in there somewhere

Posted by: PanelBilly Aug 31 2021, 07:09 PM

That’s what I was waiting for

Posted by: Montreal914 Sep 1 2021, 10:22 AM

Yes, a French classic!

As mentioned in the beginning of the footage, this was filmed without any special effects or speed changes to it.