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> 914 Sins... I need to get it off my chest...., Have You Sinned Too??? I'll Feel Much Better with Company....
Brian Mifsud
post Jul 13 2007, 09:22 AM
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A thread on backdating a '75/'76 to earlier 2.0 Exhaust has pushed me over the edge and I must confess.....

A year and 1/2 ago I moved from Bay Area to San Diego. In the 3 months of getting the house ready to sell, and getting the 914 into a roller, overwhelming anxiety got more and more intense... I wasn't gonna meet the "deadline". I started throwing things into the back of the pickup. Yes, I got into one of those rash-decision-making furies and started chucking good stuff...

I lost faith, and decided in an instance to simply get the '76 reassembled, smogged and sold, so .......I......I......I......


I chucked the complete and perfectly good '74 2.0 exhaust system that another board member GAVE me!!!...[i] (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pinch.gif) ....

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I feel really stupid now... I even watched as the loader at the dumpstation scooped up the exhaust and all the other crap I'd emptied from the pickup and dropped it into the "sort" pile.. one step away from the landfill.


OOOOOOOOOHHHH I feel so dirty....(where is the "rape shower" emoticon?) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) ...


I feel aweful... it's all coming back so vividly.....

Be kind....

So, here's an opportunity to sit in a circle and admit your sins. This is the first and most difficult step.
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VaccaRabite
post Jul 13 2007, 09:30 AM
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Yes I have done that, but not with 914 stuff.

In an emotionally charged move several years ago, I chucked a lot of the things that I owned rather then needing to pack them (or sell them).

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post Jul 13 2007, 10:17 AM
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And here I am hanging on to worthless 1.7 junk heads, 1.7 heat exchangers, 1.7 monza exhausts....
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:21 AM
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I have an exhaust related sin as well-
I traded some old heat exchangers to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) way back when for some other parts. I guess he rattle canned 'em and e-bayed 'em off as SSIs.
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:22 AM
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Just when you think you're done...wait, there is more..lol
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Oh you are going to914 hell for that one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) We have all done something similar.
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:30 AM
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I drilled a rear panel and installed a rear update kit once about 20 years ago.
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:33 AM
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I sold 4 deep 6's for 500.00 last year! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

confessing didn't really make me feel any better just reminded me how stupid I am (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)
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post Jul 13 2007, 11:00 AM
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1.7 heads aren't junk.
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post Jul 13 2007, 11:01 AM
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I've coveted another man's 914.
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post Jul 13 2007, 11:04 AM
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QUOTE(BigDBass @ Jul 13 2007, 12:01 PM) *

I've coveted another man's 914.



That's a sin? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I am going to HELL! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
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post Jul 13 2007, 11:15 AM
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i used perfectly good *original* /6 parts to repair a window at my house.

i'm looking at it as i type this ...
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post Jul 13 2007, 12:08 PM
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I cut up a very rusted parts car. When I gathered up the left over parts, I checked with a number of the local guys about throwing out (2) perfectly good doors, no rust on the bottom, window working well. The answer was, 'Yea throw those things away, you can get more for next to nothing if you need to.' So, they were trashed. Well, I now need (2) good doors, with windows, to replace the stripped, rusted ones I have....

So yea..... doh.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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post Jul 13 2007, 12:26 PM
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I don't know if I'd call it a 914 sin, but I drove mine when I was 13, 3 years before I got my license. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)


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post Jul 13 2007, 12:59 PM
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I have sinnnnned. Yeeesss frieeeends I have sinned. I created a abomination by putting a kit on my car. I haaaava blasa-phemed the holy grail of the 914. BWHAAA!

Sniff..Sniff..
Please turn your pages to the good book, Haynes manual section 5 chapter 3.
Wheeeer it state-sa that "Damned are those who blaspheme when selling car as rust free"

Noooowww frieeends open up your hymn books and let us sing praise to the mighty Porsche father with the song... "No rust shall I find" f ollowed up by hymn 25,
"How high are thou jackstands" : (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)
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post Jul 13 2007, 01:11 PM
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QUOTE(Steve Thacker @ Jul 13 2007, 01:59 PM) *

I have sinnnnned. Yeeesss frieeeends I have sinned. I created a abomination by putting a kit on my car. I haaaava blasa-phemed the holy grail of the 914. BWHAAA!

Sniff..Sniff..
Please turn your pages to the good book, Haynes manual section 5 chapter 3.
Wheeeer it state-sa that "Damned are those who blaspheme when selling car as rust free"

Noooowww frieeends open up your hymn books and let us sing praise to the mighty Porsche father with the song... "No rust shall I find" f ollowed up by hymn 25,
"How high are thou jackstands" : (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)
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post Jul 13 2007, 01:49 PM
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Thou Shalt Not Lie

I cracked the driver's corner in college and it needed a new fender, new bumper, new front strut, etc. While waiting for the repair, I replaced my 914 with an Alfa Spyder Veloce and sold the 914 as soon as the bodywork was done.

Upon sale, I was less than forthcoming about the reason for the apparent newness of the left front corner of the car. Back in the 70's I'd rather die than admit to bodywork.

Anyway, my friend Danny said something to the prospective buyer like, "you know, you make more right turns than left turns getting on and off the highway, maybe that's why this area looks so clean." And...

...the guy bought it: the explanation AND the car! Am I going to hell, too?

Paul
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Steve Thacker
post Jul 13 2007, 02:14 PM
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Oh dear teener brother...You gonna burn for that one.
Be like sleeping on a fry daddy.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)


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post Jul 13 2007, 02:20 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Jul 13 2007, 10:15 AM) *

i used perfectly good *original* /6 parts to repair a window at my house.

i'm looking at it as i type this ...
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I've GOT to see that one
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post Jul 13 2007, 02:37 PM
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our red 914 was cut in half......twice

<gasp> -JON
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post Jul 13 2007, 03:06 PM
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QUOTE(sendjonathanmail @ Jul 13 2007, 02:37 PM) *

our red 914 was cut in half......twice

<gasp> -JON



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