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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 10:28 AM

It was just a week ago and I was joking about this possibility.


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 10:28 AM

Take a closer look


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Posted by: Mueller May 1 2006, 10:30 AM

did you get the VIN??? hahahaha


yep, so sad....it'll be recycled into a dishwasher now....

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 10:32 AM

This is a barge that comes from Albany NY once a week. Tomorrow morning it will be loaded into "THE SHREADER". I will be having the car set asside for a proper burial Then when I am finished taking off any parts that can be saved I will load it in "THE SHREADER". Don't worry I will post pictures.

Posted by: JerryP May 1 2006, 10:33 AM

Doh! I think that chrome bumper is nicer than mine.

Posted by: URY914 May 1 2006, 10:33 AM

That lense looks good.

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 10:33 AM

NY plates still on the car.

OK if you are a mamber here fess up!

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 10:37 AM

If I can save anything I will.

The car looks like it was in great shape.

Passange rear lens still looks good.

No chance for the bumper, but the chrome is really nice.

Posted by: Joseph Mills May 1 2006, 10:37 AM

I'll take that left rear brake caliper please...


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Posted by: rmital May 1 2006, 10:38 AM

that friggen bumper top looks perfect...compared to mine...

Posted by: JerryP May 1 2006, 10:40 AM

Yea...it oughta be a crime for someone to crush a perfectly good Mercury Topaz like that.

Posted by: URY914 May 1 2006, 10:45 AM

Check into the outside door handles

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 10:48 AM

Door handles..

Do you think the rear springs are still good?

Posted by: lotus_65 May 1 2006, 11:09 AM

there ought to be a national moratorium on crushing collectibles (not just porsche's, but any of them). i know no one will ever crush a fastback again!

maybe a d-base that recyclers could enter cars into and give a months warning... interfaced with various club sites to alert concened members.

i mean if we can drop part of our lives for a ppi, i could certainly make it to a bone yard before something even remotely salvageable gets flattened!

Posted by: drewvw May 1 2006, 11:11 AM

Leo you should have jumped on there, pryed off the 914 badge and raised it up in victory...

Posted by: Toast May 1 2006, 11:29 AM

Looks like a Zambize too. Leo, remove the 914 emblem as a memorial.
Very sad.
Comming from NY, it may have been all rusted to sheeat.

Posted by: ptravnic May 1 2006, 11:43 AM

Maybe take a pic of your car w/the "to be shredded" car in the background... Or threaten your car... "if you don't start working properly, you'll end up like your zambizi friend over there!!!".

Posted by: SirAndy May 1 2006, 11:43 AM

first thing that popped into my mind as well ...

Andy

Posted by: Porsche Rescue May 1 2006, 11:47 AM

Isn't that the rare 1970 bumper highly prized by 6 restorers?

Posted by: Qarl May 1 2006, 12:04 PM

Rear trunk lock
914 script on back
Lens
Muffler bearings

We can rebuild it...

http://www.my914-6.com/6mdm.wav

Posted by: type47 May 1 2006, 12:41 PM

i don't get it.... what's so funny about a barge loaded with rust free East coast 914's.... don't you guys know about Bondo?

"Yeah, we can straighten that out for ya..."

Posted by: RON S. May 1 2006, 12:50 PM

I got one just like that in my local scrap yard here.


I spent half this past Saturday morning stripping what I could save.

Just makes ya sad.



Ron

Posted by: Eric_Shea May 1 2006, 01:05 PM

There's control arms on there!! Hubs and all!!!

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 1 2006, 01:12 PM

I will get everything I can.

Posted by: bondo May 1 2006, 01:34 PM

I've seen AA put worse looking 914s on ebay!

Posted by: grasshopper May 1 2006, 06:35 PM

can you save the vin tag on the windshield and in the front trunk for me??

Posted by: boboli914@att.net May 1 2006, 06:53 PM

I get dibbs on the windshield

Posted by: Mueller May 1 2006, 06:57 PM

not sure about NJ, but that is illegal in this and many other states

Posted by: jd74914 May 1 2006, 07:12 PM

I believe its illegal everywhere. Messing with cars is a felony . . . use this info as you like .

Posted by: grasshopper May 1 2006, 07:15 PM

im not going to sell them or use them on another car...??.. I just wanted to collect a whole bunch, and frame them and put "In Memory of" on top of all of them... Is that Illegal too??

Posted by: jd74914 May 1 2006, 07:27 PM

Ok. Its probably illegal to collect them at all, but as long as you aren't putting them on a car I don't think anyone will care.

Posted by: (*)(*) May 1 2006, 07:32 PM

I have a wall full of VINs.....

BTW, that'll buff out easy.

Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik May 1 2006, 08:04 PM

Leo,

Wow, you sure know how to turn on the 914 junk yard dogs.\

Here's my secrete Junk yard stash that only my good 914 buddy Gary Stellmack knows about. Made him promise to never tell the location or I will kick out his 914-6 windows.

Tom




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Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik May 1 2006, 08:07 PM

another junker


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Posted by: grasshopper May 1 2006, 08:10 PM

hmm...I need the dash, window cranks, center console and armrests....

Posted by: jimtab May 1 2006, 08:33 PM

Dude, get the parts and build Elvis a "side car"....

Posted by: Toast May 1 2006, 08:46 PM

WOW! Can we say "psycadellic"?
Let's play the "Guess how many colors is on this 914." game.

Posted by: drewvw May 1 2006, 09:03 PM

sweet secret stash! Where I grew up, there was one like that with old bugs....

Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik May 1 2006, 09:10 PM

Hi All,

Now here's the rest of the (real) story.

The first interior picture is actually my parts car stored at a buddy's yard.

The other junk yard pictures were taken about 1993 after I purchased my car. Good buddy Gary & I found this junk yard & stripped everything we thought we needed. There were about (10) 914 carcass's laying around this field. The owner stripped most of the parts and had them stored on his fathers property. At that time we didn't know much about 914's & passed up lots of good stuff. I'll try to find more pictures of piles & piles of 914 stuff. We cherry picked a lot of stuff (cheap) and later found out his parents sold their farm and had to get rid of everything. The had a CAT dozer on the property and dug a big hole, pushed everything into the hole. It's buried w/914 bodies, etc. 914 stuff north of Pontiac, MI
Sad, sad story. At that time in 1993 we never thought this stuff would be valuable. I remember one 914 with flares in the barn & always wondered if it was buried or a 914-6?????

Tom


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 07:47 AM

Here she comes


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 07:50 AM

Some good stuff here


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 07:52 AM

Hey Eric Shea,
Look at these!!!
They can be saved and they will


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 07:56 AM

And this set is for Toast.


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Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 08:01 AM

This is great! LMAO!

Posted by: bd1308 May 2 2006, 08:05 AM

the engine was crushed too?


b

Posted by: jet1 May 2 2006, 08:08 AM

I bet they couldn't find it.

Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 08:12 AM

It's in one of the pictures above.

Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 08:12 AM

Leo, put that thing on eBay!

Posted by: bd1308 May 2 2006, 08:13 AM

I know, I saw that.

I bet its less rusted than mine is.

b

Posted by: maf914 May 2 2006, 08:30 AM

I'm not sure, but that wheel looks a lot like a Cosmic Wheel, made in England. They were popular with the British roadster and Mini crowd at one time.

Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 08:35 AM

Yep, cast aluminum. My local VW dealer used to sell them as a upgrade for Bugs.

Posted by: computers4kids May 2 2006, 08:39 AM

That picture makes me sick! It's almost as bad as burning an american flag--what-are-they thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: rmital May 2 2006, 08:44 AM

...I call dibs on the MPS...it might be under there some where....

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 08:47 AM

Center cap says Cosmic - soon to be FS on the samba unless someone here is interested.

Gonna go grab a forklift and move it to a safe place to pic it clean.
Speedo is broken, but the other guages are good.
More pictures to come, so tune in later

Posted by: Spoke May 2 2006, 08:50 AM

I could use the rear trunk lock for my wrecked 71.

Spoke

Posted by: olav May 2 2006, 09:00 AM

Thanks for the pics.

Do you have to buy the car from the scrap yard before you can start to pick it clean or are all those vehicles open season?

Posted by: Travis Neff May 2 2006, 09:53 AM

Leo, what a riot!

Posted by: SirAndy May 2 2006, 10:18 AM

another one saved! well, sorta ...

that rubber boot for the drivers side blinker looks good, very rare to find intact ones ...
Andy

Posted by: plas76targa May 2 2006, 10:44 AM

Leo, you scared the outta me when I read the topic and saw you were posting it. I thought the worst!

gee - I wonder if you can find that vacuum part I was looking for last year? and dibs on the bent rear sway bar - if it has one and you can get to it!

We're all watching this post!

Posted by: rmital May 2 2006, 10:50 AM

...just got off the phone with Leo...he's out there now poking around and picking parts off the car.

More pics to follow....

Posted by: Toast May 2 2006, 11:11 AM

Still makes me cry though.


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Posted by: boboli914@att.net May 2 2006, 11:21 AM

At least that car was far from being rust free. It is still a sad one to see.

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 11:51 AM

Not usually ok to pic the cars apart.
I know the manager

Andy I will get the rubber boot ifin your serious.

Matt sorry about the thread title.

Travis where you been?

It is a 70' 1.7 - is the bumper worth saving?

Spoke do you only need the inside? Its yours.

Ifin you want a part let me know.

And now for Part Duex of a story I have affectionately named FLAT IV





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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 11:56 AM

I pulled some stuff off the top then I flipped her over like a pancake.

Can someone please use photoshop to place this car on the pancake bunny's head.




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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:01 PM

Lots of stuff is broken, but not all is lost.


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Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 12:01 PM

OH, that hurts!!!

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:05 PM

One good rear and both front calapers


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:08 PM

front end, mc and the Cosmic wheel center


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:11 PM

And the booty


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:13 PM

Next episode - THE SHREADER - comming soon

Posted by: Headrage May 2 2006, 12:14 PM

If it's not cracked or chunked, yank that rear bumber top...

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:17 PM

It is pretty bent up. Look at some of the forklift pics

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Posted by: Headrage May 2 2006, 12:20 PM

I saw the snake like shape but if it's not cracked or broken I'll bet it can be straightened out.

PKLSNFR

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 12:24 PM

That would make a great lic plate

Posted by: Porsche Rescue May 2 2006, 12:28 PM

Rear bumper is not the original early (six) bumper so not worth saving.

Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 12:36 PM

Total value of saved items; $20.00

Posted by: SirAndy May 2 2006, 12:46 PM

if it's in good shape, yes, please ...

Andy

Posted by: Headrage May 2 2006, 12:47 PM

Just the top...

Posted by: Toast May 2 2006, 12:56 PM

Oooohhhh....that floor pan is baaaaaaad.

Posted by: Ferg May 2 2006, 01:06 PM

And in this corner we have a 1971 green 914 weighing in at 2139 pounds

And in the next corner we have..............

















THE CRUSHER


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Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby May 2 2006, 01:17 PM

Those masochists...there WAS at least a Grand in good parts on that car...

Posted by: Trevorg7 May 2 2006, 01:29 PM

What a bummer. Good save however (kick save and a beauty for you hockey fans).

I'll take the headlight center knob cap if it is available.

Thanks

T

Posted by: maf914 May 2 2006, 01:54 PM

I could use an odometer reset cable knob if one was present and not crushed.

That crushed tranny bellhousing is ugly.

Were the rear trailing arms ruined? I can see the lower eye was broken off one of the rear shocks.

Posted by: Spoke May 2 2006, 01:54 PM

I just need the actuator pin that is on the backside of the trunk release button. Thanks!

What a shame about all of the busted up parts. Although looking at the rust around the footwell, I can see why this car was junked.

Spoke

Posted by: grasshopper May 2 2006, 02:50 PM

did you save the vin tags??

Posted by: ptravnic May 2 2006, 03:00 PM

I could prob use the master cylinder... Mine is MUCH uglier than that and its still on the car... You know what they say though, if it ain't broke...

I'd actually like to rebuild one - for learnings sake...

Posted by: Dr Evil May 2 2006, 03:19 PM

If its not too much trouble, I would like the tranny internals.




Like that would be possible.

Posted by: Dr Evil May 2 2006, 03:20 PM

You should save the relocated fuel pump as well.

Posted by: Bigbohr May 2 2006, 03:30 PM

I had that last week. Went for an oil change to the Jiffy station around the corner and the guy couldn't find the engine. He opened the front trunk first of course.

Posted by: Dr Evil May 2 2006, 03:31 PM

Also sort of sought after is the lower engine tins, and the CV joints if they are rebuildable.

Hubs on the early cars are nicer as they have the 5th boss for the 5 lug.

Posted by: Dr Evil May 2 2006, 03:32 PM

And you still let him touch your car? I have heard nothing but bad stories form those Jiffy places.

Posted by: fitsbain May 2 2006, 04:54 PM

That thing has less rust than mine and I'm putting mine back together.

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 05:17 PM

Got everything I could. You think working on a 914 is hard???
Try one that has been crushed.
Trans internals
Trunk latch - Got the pin and receiver - hope that works for you
Hubs would have been good - couldn't move the arms
CVs no way - same problem - also no rear caliper, but got the fronts
MC - looks good - spoken for at the moment
Rear bumper cap - got it and is ok for a driver
Andy's boots - one side ok other not so ok
Misc others - most of the dash stuff was wasted


So after a long day at work the FLAT IV had to go...


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Posted by: Leo Imperial May 2 2006, 05:24 PM

But the sole of the dearly departed will live on.
In the weeks to come the FI harness will help to bring life to a 914 that has been awaiting a transplant for over 17 years.
I hope you all have learned something today.
Treat your 914 well. Every day could be it's last


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Posted by: Spoke May 2 2006, 05:29 PM

Leo,

Thanks for the rear trunk lock pin. How's $20 shipped?
Don't know if the pin is worth this much but it was worth the price to follow this thread. Thanks for the entertainment.

Spoke

Posted by: URY914 May 2 2006, 05:57 PM

He lead a good life.....Cheers ol' buddy

Posted by: SirAndy May 2 2006, 06:00 PM

so sad ...

Posted by: boboli914@att.net May 2 2006, 06:00 PM

ashes to ashes and rust to rust!

Posted by: Jamie May 2 2006, 07:27 PM

I think I'll go barf now!!

Posted by: jimtab May 2 2006, 09:43 PM

Eh...white man take scalp.....

Posted by: maf914 May 3 2006, 07:23 AM

Thanks for a great thread Leo!

914 RIP!

Posted by: 1970 Neun vierzehn May 4 2006, 04:30 PM

Leo,
Great thread! Better than watching stoopid TV. Besides the bittersweet ending with the last, heart-tugging, sad photograph, I was riveted by the unfolding drama of who(or in this case, what), would get out(alive). We were all pulling for someone(or something). "Come on 914 emblem, leave now! Can the rear bumper top make it out in time? Calipers! Any survivors? Taillight lenses...hurry CV joints? No joy

Kinda like a mini-documentary. "Death comes to a 'teener". I'll nominate it for an Oscar, err, a "Butzi". Thanks for the entertainment, I enjoyed it, sorta like watching the Titanic goin' down. You just know what's coming, but you're hoping for the best knowing what the ultimate outcome will be!

Posted by: Leo Imperial May 4 2006, 07:08 PM

Thanks for the rave reviews.

The up side is that all of the feeder yards will be contacting me everytime a Porsche comes in, prior to crushing. The Titanic did not have to go down, it could have been prevented.

Look for my next Thread "Death of a 911 a Frankinstien Story"

Posted by: SirAndy Dec 3 2009, 03:01 PM

I just had to bump this thread. I nominate this for classic status!
Andy

Posted by: dr914@autoatlanta.com Dec 3 2009, 03:22 PM

this is a very bad picture. On the Ford GT forum, we are not allowed to post pictures of wrecked GTs

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Dec 3 2009, 03:25 PM

I see I was not the only one thinking of this thread today.

Zach

Posted by: Jake Raby Dec 3 2009, 03:38 PM

Never fear.. You can buy it's remains in a few weeks as an internal engine component from China.

Posted by: jsayre914 Dec 3 2009, 06:51 PM

i loved the thread,

thanks leo

Posted by: SGB Dec 3 2009, 06:54 PM

Posted by: bandjoey Dec 3 2009, 07:35 PM

VOTE for Classic Thread.

Posted by: Dr Evil Dec 3 2009, 08:17 PM

Wow, this was a blast from the past.

Posted by: Leo Imperial Dec 3 2009, 09:07 PM

WOW!

I never expected to see this bumped up today. I've been MIA for a long time, so it's pretty funny to see.

Posted by: jimtab Dec 3 2009, 09:08 PM

Absolutely a classic....no doubt.

Posted by: championgt1 Dec 3 2009, 09:55 PM

First time I have read it.

Posted by: Mike914 Dec 4 2009, 12:31 AM

Me too. If it was still happening, I would be the one asking for the key and ignition switch. My '71 is getting real hard to turn, and the lock cylinder comes out with the key... Sad to see pics like that, but I've stripped my share at Pick-N-Pull over the years. Always try to keep the Karmann plate, myself.

Posted by: SLITS Dec 4 2009, 08:38 AM

I'll look as I think I may have an early ignition switch. Now whether it has the key or not is another question. Send me a PM with an addy.

Oh BTW, Toast has Euro lenses on her car

Posted by: naro914 Dec 4 2009, 09:09 AM

I have an ingition switch with key. Just took it out of Papa Smurf yesterday, going with a push button start. It's actually pretty new - was replaced about 10 years ago.

But this is the first time I've seen this thread. It was like a mystery novel - you know how it ends - though this time the good guy (the car) did not get the girl and was killed - but it was the journey to the end that was interesting. Sad, but interesting.

I have to confess...I sent two 914 chassis to the crusher, but not before stripping all the parts, and using much of their chassis metal to rebuild Huey from the Targa wreck. They still live on in many ways...

Posted by: Mr.242 Dec 4 2009, 09:49 AM

New guy here....1st view of this thread.

I laughed, I cried, and I want a sequel!

Let a 914 rise from the mass of metal and return to get the GIRL!

Posted by: Strudelwagon Dec 4 2009, 11:51 AM

That was an epic adventure of a girl from Germany, lived her life far away from home, Now dead but never forgotted thanks to bunch of secret admirers.

Well done
SW

Posted by: HAM Inc Dec 4 2009, 02:41 PM

The 914's were probably originally made from recycled NSU steel, so the circle of life continues!
It's a shame the crank case wasn't saved. Those early cases are my favorite!