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Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 21 2009, 03:29 PM

I got an original six from Colorado in the shop to work on. Just wondered if someone here sold it.











Sorry for the crappy camera phone picts!

Last photo shows the 3 914s I have in the shop right now. Just put brand new CV joints (yes they stock BRAND NEW CV joints for 914s at Zims) into the Red one, fixed the shift linkage on the yellow one, and the black one is the six. It has a number of small problems that I am fixing.

Not bad for a part time employee.

Posted by: carr914 Aug 21 2009, 03:37 PM

The flares are certainly different

T.C.

Posted by: Sleepin Aug 21 2009, 03:39 PM

Not one that I recognize. I can give you a return delivery address though, if you need one!

Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 21 2009, 04:07 PM

No can do.... it's not my car. I am just fixing the DAPO screwups for the new owner.

Someone in this poor car's past stuck 50mm PMO carbs on a stock 914-6 motor. The poor thing is drowning, and has one hellatious flat spot off idle. New 40mm PMO carbs have been ordered for it.

Posted by: Cupomeat Aug 21 2009, 04:10 PM

Hey if 40mm is good, 50mm must be better,

Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 21 2009, 04:12 PM

Not when it is idling in the shop and you can't breathe from all the unburned hydrocarbons coming out of the exhaust.

I just thought about it.. we should put a spark plug in the exhaust... it would make INTERESTING flames...........

Posted by: Zundfolge Aug 21 2009, 04:14 PM

Why does it have a different plate on the front?

Looks like a standard plate on the front and a Collector Car plate on the back.

That sure seems fishy (fishy enough that I wouldn't want to have to explain it to one of Denver's "finest" at the side of the road).

Posted by: Slider Aug 21 2009, 04:48 PM

Maybe the front is registered as a 914 and the back is registered as a 911.....

Posted by: Ferg Aug 21 2009, 05:22 PM

Damn, I missed one

Sorry Don't know it.

Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 21 2009, 05:56 PM

The rear is a collector plate, and it left Colorado for Texas. We just got a state inspection done so the new owner could transfer the title to Texas. Denver's finest will not see it again.....

Posted by: Gint Aug 21 2009, 06:19 PM

They all come back around...

Never seen it before. I'd remember those flares.

Posted by: Gustl Aug 21 2009, 11:39 PM

tell me the VIN and I'll check my files

Posted by: ConeDodger Aug 21 2009, 11:49 PM

Except for Clay's use of Andy's old camera , I would say those are SC flares. Same as were on Gwen's car before she sold it...

Posted by: MDG Aug 22 2009, 06:10 AM

Funny, I was just looking at pics of a black 914-6 with a similar flare treatment. It belongs to a member here (flat'n race); he bought it and shipped it home to France. I believe he then removed the flares and replaced with proper GTs

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Aug 22 2009, 10:54 AM

Don't know where my Brian Long book went, but with 7Rs, a pair of proper bumpers, and a ride-height adjust this car would look an awful lot like the factory 914-6R prototype...

The flares look so close to what I remember on that car that I'd sure like to know the VIN, too.

pete

Posted by: kwales Aug 22 2009, 03:47 PM

Clay...

Riddle me this....

Why does the right yellow car in the trio picture look gi-normous????

Is that yellow car a Texas mobile as in everything's bigger in Texas????

Is the center one a 3/4 sized car??

Whats up????

Posted by: Ferg Aug 22 2009, 03:51 PM

Camera phone itty bitty lense, fish eye effect is my guess.

Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 22 2009, 06:10 PM

Crappy camera phone......

Posted by: MDG Aug 22 2009, 06:42 PM

It looks like when that little red one pulled up to park, it took one look at that honkin' yellow thing and promptly wet itself.

Posted by: MDG Aug 22 2009, 06:45 PM

I seem to recall seeing a thread quite a while ago - maybe here, maybe the Bird board - of a guy using Golf flares that came out looking a lot like the ones in Clays' pics.

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Aug 24 2009, 03:05 PM

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 24 2009, 03:33 PM

Rabbit Flares are much smaller. Do a search here for Jason (http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=53), he's the one with the rabbit flares on his 914.

Posted by: MDG Aug 24 2009, 04:43 PM

I did the search and see what you mean about the VW flares. I also stumbled across this pic of Gwen's car Rob mentioned

Posted by: bandjoey Aug 24 2009, 06:22 PM

If they're still there tomorrow and you want some good pix, let me know and I'll stop by and photo blast both. That yellow car looks almost new, with big chrome moon hubcaps. (Clay, is this really Betty?) Both sharp looking cars. Bill