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> The story of a silver -6, ...My '70 914-6
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post Apr 26 2015, 07:50 PM
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The first 914 I had was a white '76 2.0L. I didn't know a lot about 914s back then (mid 80's) but I came to love that car, despite our ups and downs. Eventually I had to sell it and buy something more practical (I was buying a house and could only afford one car) but I remember reading an article in VW & Porsche magazine about a 914 conversion to a -6. That one was white as well and I started dreaming about one day having a -6.

Well, about a month ago, I was surfing another Porsche site that I don't visit much at all and just on a lark, typed in 914-6 just to see what would come up. To my surprise, I found a silver 1970 for sale near San Francisco. I finally reached the seller and started a conversation. I then reached out to the board here for a PPI and Matthepcat responded and very graciously offered to take a look for me. Well, things progressed with the seller and not wanting to let it get away, I made arrangement to skip the step 1 visual PPI that Matt offered to do and jump straight to step 2, a professional PPI with a compression check and the whole bit. A few more conversations and it was mine. There was money to wire and forms to FedEx back and forth but on my drive up to the Hershey swap meet a little over a week ago, it all came together. My wonderful wife was working out the transfer at the bank while I was driving up through Virginia. To cut to the chase, it got delivered yesterday.

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I know you guys especially can understand the excitement about this....I'm not bragging at all just very thankful that it has all worked out this way after dreaming about this for 30 years.


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post Apr 26 2015, 07:54 PM
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Congratulations! !
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More pictures, please!
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post Apr 26 2015, 07:57 PM
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Very nice, indeed. Congrats. Enjoy.
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post Apr 26 2015, 07:58 PM
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So here she is, my silver surfer. A numbers matching 1970 -6.

She lived with the previous owner for 32 years. Hope she'll be with me that long.

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Matt, (Matthepcat), thanks again for the offer of the PPI help.


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post Apr 26 2015, 08:23 PM
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I took the day off Friday and spent it cleaning up the garage and moving the '72 parts car around. Saturday, the driver delivered it during a break in the showers that were supposed to go on all day. When I got it in the shop, I removed this from the passenger side,
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removed the 5 point harnesses, and pulled some retractable belts from the '72. Going to clean them up this week. I then spent several hours buffing and polishing the paint. It was repainted the original color about 15 years ago but there are some scratches I was trying to address.

I'm going to run it with the existing latter model seats for a while but while I was headed to Hershey a couple of weeks ago, I spoke with Garold and he hooked me up with a nice '70 backpad and pass. seat bottom that I've cleaned up and am going to store, until I decide to put it back 100%.
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post Apr 26 2015, 08:29 PM
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The car came with 205/55/16s on the front on 6" Fuchs and 225/50/16s on 7" Fuchs on the rear. The rear tires looked a little ballooned so this afternoon, I pulled out a set of 7s and 8s with the same size tires and swapped them on. The 8's in the rears flatten out the sidewalls and move the tires out a little to fill out the flares better. The 7s on the front look better than the 6s and move the tires out enough that they don't rub on the back inside of the passenger fender well.

Also adjusted the clutch a little. I'll tell you, the tailshifter has GOT to go. It is awful. I've got to figure out if there is anything I can do to adjust the linkage because the 2-3 and 4-3 shifts are hard to get right.
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Congrats! Looks like a nice solid car. I'd probably change the muffler and side skirts back to stock-ish. My car had the same skirts, spoiler and rear reflector when I first bought it, and I found them a bit over the top and borderline cheesy. Obviously that's subjective and to each his own. Enjoy her in good health!
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post Apr 26 2015, 09:51 PM
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post Apr 26 2015, 10:07 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) Congratulations! Looks like you found a nice car. How exciting to finally have your dream in your garage. Please post tons of pictures to make us all jealous - we love it.
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Wow! She is a beauty!

Congrats Dee! Glad to hear all worked out smoothly.


Never let this one go.


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post Apr 26 2015, 10:51 PM
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Stunning find...love the rear quarters pulled out !
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Stunning find...love the rear quarters pulled out !
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"Honey, do you think these flares make my butt look too big?"

Nah......just right!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Really gorgeous. Best of luck !
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Very nice Dee! Will be great to see it in person.

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