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Posted by: 914 dror Aug 14 2006, 07:03 AM

Hello every body
1971 is the time
10 1.7L 914`s have come to the country disguised as vw`s with the code name 914
They were not allowed to enter the country as regular cars because there was no Porsche agency in Israel, in fact Porsche opened its first agency in 1996!
So smart people had found a loop hole - a rental car woo hoo
They (I don’t know who) brought those 10 cars in to Israel.
35 years have past since then and as far as rumors go I think between 4 to 6 cars are still here.
Today there are no parts to be found here so every thing had to come from over seas, which makes it all slower and harder
But behold!
The resto project has begun

shiiiiiiiit pics to large
i`ll work on it
catch you later

dror

Posted by: pfierb Aug 14 2006, 07:21 AM

As far as the pictures being to large the word is dreck !

Posted by: aveale Aug 14 2006, 07:38 AM

can't wait for more details!!

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 14 2006, 02:37 PM

Ths pics must be REALLY big!! The forum software shrinks even the largest ones!


B

Posted by: pete-stevers Aug 14 2006, 03:13 PM

show us some pics
and welcome to the club!!!!

Posted by: vesnyder Aug 14 2006, 03:51 PM

dror - Welcome to the Club! I suspect you need as much distraction as anybody, with what you guys are living through! Good luck with the car!

Posted by: bmunday Aug 14 2006, 04:06 PM

Figure out how to post those pictures.....

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Aug 14 2006, 05:58 PM

Well it's good to hear back from you, hope your all well. I am sure that some of

us would be willing to help you get parts you may need. Thats one car that should

have a long and happy life.

Posted by: Jake Raby Aug 14 2006, 06:56 PM

It might just be rust free!!

Unless a Camel pissed on it..

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 12:34 PM

Thanks I really do, cause what's going on here is really disgusting.

Posted by: grasshopper Aug 15 2006, 12:44 PM

Hey, if you want, you can email your pictures to me at dfuller914@hotmail.com and I can resize them for you.

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 12:58 PM

we're all well I'm in the south so no katushas here, thanks for the good will with the parts I would need few parts soon.
This one would be considered a parts car in the stats but here it's a rarity, and I am too fucked up so I'm gonna put the $$$ that you guys could put in a full conversion from 4 to 6 and then some, just in putting her back on the Israeli roads

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 01:14 PM

hell i wish!
If it only had been in the desert where I live then it could have been rust free, though the chances of a camel pissing accident would have been on the rise

Nop! This car had been for most of its life near the Mediterranean Sea (Tel Aviv)
never a good thing for vintage cars.

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 01:16 PM

thanks its been taken care of

Posted by: Flat VW Aug 15 2006, 01:35 PM

John

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 01:40 PM

Now that was some 7 years ago

be ware of the grate pissing camel !




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Posted by: orange914 Aug 15 2006, 01:43 PM

good to hear your 914 story. we've been getting to know a few 914ers thru this club and they are a good group, we all need to pitch in and put this 914 back on the road.
i'll post a few pic's you e-mailed me earlier of your car in progress, i dint think you'd mind dror, since your pictures where being difficult.

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 01:44 PM

and thats what happened about 2.5 years ago well you get the pic.



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Posted by: ptravnic Aug 15 2006, 01:45 PM

I suppose it does not matter where in the world these cars are, they always end up on jack stands....

Posted by: BenT Aug 15 2006, 02:04 PM

Welcome to the Club, Dror.

BenT

Posted by: BenT Aug 15 2006, 02:09 PM

Ouch! I just saw the pics. I'm glad you are resurrecting it. Labor is so expensive in the US, especially here in California, and supply of cars in better shape that something like your car would likely be retired. Everything is relative. Good luck on the project.

BenT

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 02:13 PM

[quote name='orange914' date='Aug 15 2006, 09:43 PM' post='752527']
good to hear your 914 story. we've been getting to know a few 914ers thru this club and they are a good group, we all need to pitch in and put this 914 back on the road.
i'll post a few pic's you e-mailed me earlier of your car in progress, i dint think you'd mind dror, since your pictures where being difficult.

p.s. the blue rear section came for good ol' ca.

Cool you just saved me some work i was planing on puting those pics
tomorrow will be a welding day

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 02:27 PM

This is the fucker's van (a drunken fucker )
my car was parking next to my home and that ass crossed two lanes hit my car got on top of it and pushed it another 11 yards (that is with the hand brake up)

got those pics. And later on got my day in court




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Posted by: BenT Aug 15 2006, 02:41 PM

Wish I stil had PICS of my 68 911T Targa. It was my first Porsche. I spent a year putting it together with a friend's help. I drove it 50 miles (80 Kms.) on 450 mile test drive. I let me friend drive the rest of the way due to a toothache. On the return trip, we heard a loud BOOM!. The next few seconds of conversation occured while we were rolling two times before flipping end over onto a small tree 20 feet down the side of the highway. The car was destroyed. Looked like your car on every surface. We landed a quarter of a mile from the point of impact.

Drunk driver in a virtually undamaged Jeep. He did not have enough insurance. He eventually paid a year's worth of his salary to cover the difference.

Good luck with the court.

BenT Porsches

Posted by: GTeener Aug 15 2006, 03:26 PM

Shalom! And

I thought your 914 might look like this?


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Posted by: GWN7 Aug 15 2006, 05:18 PM

Hello and Welcome

Great story

Keep the pictures and restoration story coming

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Aug 15 2006, 08:32 PM

Dror...Welcome to the club , lots of interesting things going on here !
I did see a U.N. soldier in a blue 911 Targa in Tel Aviv around 1974...but no 914s.
I'd trade rides in my biturbo 9146 for a ride in a Merkava
L'hitra'ot
Marty

Posted by: Lou W Aug 15 2006, 08:40 PM

Great pictures

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 09:25 PM

now thats a keeper!
thanks
Gwen

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 09:31 PM

come over and i`ll fix you up a ride in a Merkava biturbo - some 2000+ Hp (and while your at it you will get a free tour in Lebanon

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 15 2006, 10:58 PM

That’s a hard story
Were you and your friend heart or injured?

Posted by: orange914 Aug 15 2006, 11:56 PM

dror, any other pictures of the 914 before the accident?

by the way, how do the israely 914's differ from the american 914's (i noticed what i believe to be a 200 Km speedometer)?

thanks kenny

and good luck on the welding keep us updated







Drors tail section before choped next to orange914 before paint

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 16 2006, 12:13 AM

[quote name='orange914' date='Aug 16 2006, 07:56 AM' post='753123']


dror, any other pictures of the 914 before the accident?

by the way, how do the israely 914's differ from the american 914's (i noticed what i believe to be a 200 Km speedometer)?

thanks kenny

and good luck on the welding keep us updated

Hey Kenny
Basically they are the same as the European 914 so it would be Kmh, backlights were with the ember turn signals.
Probably there are more things I’m not an expert on this.

Posted by: Lawrence Aug 16 2006, 12:27 AM

Welcome to the Club!

I'm not too far away - I'm in the Sinai! Where are you, if I can ask?

Glad there's another 914 fan in this crazy part of the world!

cheers,
Rusty

Posted by: BenT Aug 16 2006, 12:53 AM

[/quote]
That’s a hard story
Were you and your friend heart or injured?
[/quote]


Thanks for asking. Testament to the strength Porsche body and that Targa bar, we did not suffer any serious injury. There was no undamaged part visible on the body. After all that, the door still opened. I know seatbelts saved my life that day. The contents of the locked glovebox was scattered all over the road. He hung safely upside down by our belts. Even luckier still, the early 911's did not have the headrests like Dror's 914 (trying not to hijack this thread -- bad choice of words maybe for Dror's region). The seatbacks snapped and broke so we did not suffer any whiplash either.

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 16 2006, 02:12 AM

cool
come and visit (any plans on Israel?)
Sinai is a grate place, have fun.
gonna be a hot week.
watch out from the

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 16 2006, 02:18 AM

Don’t worry I do not suspect you to be a
That is a good story.
That targa bar is a good safety feacher I’m happy to have it on d the 914.

Posted by: IanStott Aug 16 2006, 05:55 AM

A big welcome to you! I am pleased to see you are restoring your teener, I don't often get to see pictures of one in as bad of shape as mine! I have been spending much enjoyable time working on it and look forward to the day when I drive out of my driveway! Sorry about what is happening in your beautiful country, stay alert and safe! By the way how much is 1 litre of gas in Israel now?

Ian Stott
Moncton
Canada

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Posted by: 914 dror Aug 16 2006, 08:42 AM

Thanks for all
You can send a photo of yours we can compare bad news
One liter of gas here in Israel is about $1.3
I heard that in the U.K. it's close to 1 pound

Posted by: GTeener Aug 16 2006, 09:54 AM

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Posted by: 914 dror Aug 16 2006, 02:19 PM

Kenny
I have scanned those photos form 1999
Don't know were the rest of them.
And one of me with my first bug
And of my girl doing some air cooled of road action in the Judea desert


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Posted by: GTeener Aug 16 2006, 03:53 PM

There's always the 914 Panzer model too


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Posted by: So.Cal.914 Aug 16 2006, 05:12 PM

Great pic's. It hard for me to think of you as that far away, you look like the

kid down the block. I like the off road bug looks like a serious thumper, wouldn't

they be surprised if you fired a few hundred of those over your northern border,

it would scare the hell out of them. Can you imagine the mess when that bug

splatters on there windshield.

Posted by: GWN7 Aug 16 2006, 05:24 PM

Watching a show about aircraft carriers......they said the steam catipult would fire a VW bettle about 12 miles

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Aug 16 2006, 09:20 PM

Me on my 1949 massey ferguson tractor in the Gallilee, farming was my game in the 70's . I honed my shifting skills on the 3 speed crashbox trans...gave me an edge with the early 914 transmission
My best Fear Factor experience was hitch hiking down to Sharm El Sheik. Since I was not very adept at reading signs , a soldier told me that I was taking pics about 50 feet from a Live Fire range
So you live in Eilat ??
Marty

Posted by: BenT Aug 17 2006, 12:16 AM

Wow, that looks EXACTLY like the Marty who I know to drive a V8 VW Doublecab -- except w/o the beard.

BenT
vanagoncafe.com

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 17 2006, 09:28 AM

ho i lost you ther body
i was with yo till you got to that fireing vw bugs thingamajig

Posted by: 914 dror Aug 18 2006, 02:45 PM

Now take a look at this welding time !
under 1/4" of bondo and some 4 leyers of paint was the actual car
some places will be welded and some refabricated
Any idea abuot those places near the front windshild where some one had braze weld the gap?

tha last pic is of Valeri the men and the welder



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Posted by: Spoke Aug 18 2006, 03:25 PM

Good luck on your project. There's enough stuff to do on a 914 besides fixing collision damage like yours and mine. It took me 6 months to put this one back together using the original metal. The only thing I purchased was a new taillight assembly and $10 ebay bumper. Your's looks worse off than mine was.

BTW, sometimes it pays to be lazy. When I repainted the trunk interior and rear end in late 2005, I never got around to putting the "914" badge back on before the Jan 06 accident. Since the badge was in a drawer on that fateful day, I was able to remount it now.

Spoke


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Posted by: orange914 Aug 31 2006, 09:20 PM

sure is comin together

anything recent?

kenny


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