Is the 914 a new fangled car?, How many of you have had a similar question? Options

[stephenaki]

I've been driving the teener into work all this week since their is snow on the ground and not really conducive to riding my motorcycle in. Well, I noticed that the idle seems really high, reving around 2500 to 3000 when I pull in the clutch.

As I get onto post I pull into a parking space near the gym, parking on Patch Barracks is a bit of a problem, pull the E-brake, pop her into neutral and pop the engine lid. Time to see what the issue is, I'm thinking throttle cable is getting stuck.

As I do a precursor inspection a guy walks up onto my right side and kinda stands their and watches, his car was parked on the right side of mine. My car is reving really high at this point. I finally shut her off, will mess with it when I get home tonight, and comment that I need to adjust the idle to the guy. Too which he replies, 'can you do that? Is that one of those new cars with all the electronic stuff?'

'uhh no, it's a 1971 Porsche 914 with dual carburators; I can adjust them.' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

So, how many of you have had someone think that your teener was a new car? Just curious.

[flipb]

Within a few weeks of getting my 914 last spring, I was getting plenty of "what is it?" comments. Even had some HS kids tell me how cool it was after having to ask what it was.

One night I took it on a spirited drive and stopped to pick up some groceries on the way home. Loaded the groceries in the rear trunk and fired it up just as a guy was walking out of the store. He walked directly over to the car. I rolled down the window and he said "I'd know the sound of that engine anywhere. Is that a '74?"

Was very cool after so many clueless people for a real car guy to recognize it.