I just finished getting my 72 ready to go to the soda blasters/restoration shop. getting excited about embarking upon the final part of the journey.

SO here is the history of my time with the car. I was living in Los Alamos ,NM, and I saw this yellow 914 on the "lemon lot" as we called the county sanctioned used car lot. Since i have always loved and lusted after 914's, i took down the number of the owner and called him. It was a definite 30 footer, i.e. looked good from 30 feet, but had REALLY bad paint job. after doing the research and taking a test drive I wound up with a 1972 with a carbed 2.0 liter, and minimal rust. I drove it for the rest of the summer, until the clutch went bad 60 mountain miles from home. I limped home and put it on jack stands (an all too familiar posture).

Fast forward to the next summer, I got the clutch parts from PP and using the great tech note on the PP site, I dropped the tranny, and replaced the clutch, and took it for a ride. Decided then and there it was time to go for broke and make it the car i was dreaming of when i bought it.

Started the disassembly and collection of "things", and since moved from NM to ID to WI during the next 2 years, always wishing I had more time to work on the car.

Here is a partial list of all the things i have ready to go in no particular order:
• Reupholstered the entire interior, with core doors panels and back pad
• New Getty 911 style dash also with matching vinyl
• 911 front struts
• weltmeister sway bars
• turbo tie rods
• new ball joints
• 911 front calipers
• Elephant Racing poly bronze front bushings
• Elephant Racing top strut Weather-Sealed Front Monoball Cartridge
• Weltmeister hollow torsion rods
• Rear 5 lug conversion using 914 hubs and new bushings
• Rear koni’s
• 180 # rear springs
• 916 style front and rear bumpers (used, need some work)*
• fiberglass trunk with integral lip spoiler*
• Fiberglass flared rocker covers*
• Windshield*
• Reproduction steel flares
• 16” x6 and 16” x 7 Fuchs wheels

*from a 916 clone roller I bought recently

still need:
• Elephant Racing low friction control arm mounts
• Carpet set
• Rebuild brakes
• Side shift conversion?
• all sorts of nickel and dime stuff


Plans are to do all the body work and paint it black with the Fuchs refinished black with polished lips. I may use the 7s on the front, and get 8 or 9s for the rears. That stuff all needs to be sorted out.

Issues still to be addressed / ironed out / decided:
• Use the old “bondo-lishious” doors and repair them, or use the 1973 new style doors from parts car
• Wheel choice
• Gauge package/ re working
• Exhaust (want Tangerine racing, but I am afraid the budget will not allow it! So I will go with the rusted out HEs and the Manta muffler it came with
• May decide to powder coat / paint the suspension parts for some flash
• May paint calipers
• Convert to side shift tranny?

Miscellaneous custom touches. I would love for this car to be one of a kind. Some Pie in the sky idea that will likely not be realized:
• SIX!
• Chopped roof (take 1.5 to 2 inches from the A and B pillars
• 928 style head light buckets grafted on
• black out all the “chrome trim”
• box out the rear chrome trim and eliminate totally
I will add some pictures as the restoration goes on, as soon as we start and I fugure out how to add them!
MARK


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