Acceptable signs of use, or, if it's perfect, it lacks personality..... Options

[1970 Neun vierzehn]

personality, or in today's vernacular, "patina".

If it's too perfect, too original, too clean, too showroom perfect, it loses something that "use" imparts......the current operative word these days being "patina".

Some imperfections, or flaws, I would personally loathe. Door dings imparted on the side of my 914 by careless, lazy, or spiteful people would really piss me off. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif)

Minor stone chips on the nose and/or valence, or on wheel well openings, while not desired, do show use of the vehicle.

Similarly, modest wear of interior components (not tears, rips, cracking, etc.) point to a car that is driven and used, rather than put on a pedestal as an icon.

What precipitates this thread is my decision to forego any further pursuit to abolish my 914s' individuality, while yet still embracing the (mostly) EOM ethic.

Examples that will remain as-is as signs of use.

[Pat Garvey]

Patina shmatina!

Repaint those adjusters! They look shabby!

The dipstick is a connundrum(SP). Never seen one blue before. But.....you and I both know the original owner, and we was not likely to do that as a personal item. I'd either repaint & try to ecplain it, or scrape it down to the zinc level & not have to answer questions.

You have become the Vegan of 914 owners. Make it right.
Pat