the latest registration numbers are worse than i thought ...
January 2004:
914-4 1.7 = 428
914-4 1.8 = 62
914-4 2.0 = 688
914-6 = 146
Total: 1324
this is down significantly from the previous list i had ...
Andy
Are these the total known roadworthy cars?
Worldwide or Germany?
KT
I sent two over.....
When I was in Germany I heard that it's illegal to drive a car with body rust.
In Japan you may not drive a car that has over 30,00 miles on the drive train or has visible evidence of an accident.
Is that true about the rust?
KT
Would not surprise me a bit if they banned rusty cars from the road
I've seen some *very* questionable cars driving on the California roads over the years.
KT
same here...
like I see some BAD cars, like cars that ARE totalled and still going
here's the most relevant statistik of registered teeners in Germany (AFAIK)
as Andy already stated, these are all registered cars
but within the last years more and more teeners get intensively restored - during this period they're not registered
so I'm pretty sure that the amounts will raise up within the next years - in additiona more and more good quality cars get re-imported from the USA
interesting point - the number of /6 is getting higher ...
Gustl
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As has been said, 914's are the new 356's. Numbers will decline, values will rise.
strick car inspection would only serve to jack up prices on teh few cars that would be left legal. it probably has a political popularity by car companies (which can influence the law makers). fortunatly in most American states, the politicians are more concerned with voter backlash if they tried to pull that over here. I just heard one of the top brass in teh Calif. state smog program retired,a dn bought a chain of "test only" smog centers. he was the guy who mandated more cars into the "test only" program. funny is it not??? of course all but 1976 914's are exempt, but that can change, recall it was a couple years ago a rolling 30 year exemption, but some politician changed that , it can happen again. there are bills pnding all teh time to remove your car from the road.
voter backlash is the only reason the smog law change was not more resrictive. the tactic used now is divide and conquer, just add a few more cars to the prgram at a time, so you don't get a huge backlash. it is creeping up on us.
the number of accidentes casued by faulty cars is probably pretty small as a percentage of wrecks. it is usually fulty drivers. I have never seen a part fall off a car on the road, other than cargo improperly lashed down. (driver error).
many 914 arre dreiven in the US with major rust, mismatched paint on panels cracked glass etc... has anyone in our group had an accident caused failure do to rust, or wrong color paint? (that one really gets me, that is more of a taste issue, not safety)
laws like this would kill off the aftermarket, becuase few folks would be able to aford to fix the cars to the strict standards required. heck 30,000 miles and a new drivetrain, that would be in about two years. funny the japanese do that, don't toyotas/hondas go a quarter million millions usually?
I see no rash of safety issues becuase of our lack of nanny state laws. cops do pull cars over with hugely smashed windows, or missing lights. (although not always, I figure they figure that maybe the headlight just died, and the owner needs to get to the store to buy a new one)
the real safety concerns are drunks, the real liabilty issues are uninsured drivers wish they should crack down on, jail them if they wreck with no insurance. however there are advocates of the poor that are aginst this 9just spoek with my representative about this issue, this was his reply)
if nanny state taste laws are started here, expect many club members cars to be taken off the road, the source of cars left to restore will dry up (they will be crushed) and the aftermarket parts bussiness will shrink. the few with nicely done cars that pass the nanny state inspection (at considerable cost) will all that is left. most folks of minimal means will be screwed out of the chance to own a 914 or other classic.
these laws suck, have almost nothing to do with safety, and as the smog laws in Calif. are desinged effectly lock owners our of duing their own repairs, sending you to some dumb assed grease monkey that knows nothing to work on your car (witness the the recent post of the lotus that was dropped off a lift)
don't waste my time with these stupid inspections, if you want safety go after unsafe drivers, and return to safer road designs (I have noted a lack of this in the recent decades in Calif., lanes on freeways suddenly end, with no merging signs, freway cloverleaf intersections removed, with traffic lights blindly hidden below steep overpasses, and lack of road surface maintence) you want reponsibilty go after unisured drivers,
you like these laws, then move to the all controlling nations. just be sure you have deep pockets for your car, cause that is what you will need.
freedom rules!!!
When I sold "Mueller's six" it went back to Germany. I don't know the exact figure, but it cost the buyer a bundle because of all the modifications required to register it. The most difficult part was the because the car had GT flares he had to do a lot of modifications that were GT specific ie front and rear sway bars, correct tires and wheels, no rear spoiler, etc. I'm going to guess it cost him near $5000 by the time all was said and done. The up side is that the car was worth a lot of money in Europe, so the money was well spent.
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