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Lack of consideration to others, and Selfish! ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,791 Joined: 27-October 04 From: Paso Robles, Ca. Member No.: 3,016 Region Association: Central California ![]() |
I know I liked these cars back in 1986 ( i was 16 yrs. old). I wanted one bad because I always passed a house that had a few in the driveway, one in the garage and one on a trailer equipped for racing. I believe it's still there, in South San Jose by Oak Grove High School.
Anyways, I just took the next step in my illness where I saw something that wasn't there? It was funny after but I could have sworn it was there. I was in a meeting at work with about 9 Engineers and a few Designers. I was reading a text message from my wife on my phone and thats when it happened! She was talking about a gym membership and a "diet", All I saw was "djet". I text her back asking her what "djet" had to do with the gym? She text back saying I was an idiot and she said "diet"! I started laughing out loud for what had happened, needless to say I interrupted the meeting and the Engineering Director asked me if there was something I wished to contribute to the project? "Uh, no there wasn't"! It was then I came to the realization that I had a problem; Hi, my name is Drew and I'm a 914 addict! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welcome.png) |
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TMI.... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California ![]() ![]() |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) .......hmmmmmmm..............
You tell me what was the (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) deciding point was? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) 1. Spending 9 months in 1975 to find "the perfect used 914" - going through a couple dozen candidates, after researching all the sports car competitors on the market then & deciding the 914 was the best, & convincing myself that I couldn't afford nor want the new 75 or 76 ones with the heavier bumpers & smog controls for CA, nor a 914-6 with it's higher cost of maintenance & parts/mechanic availability in the boondocks on long XC trips? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) 2. Or maybe it was my initial turn-around to liking the 914's styling - after being initially nonplussed when it first came out in 69/70, after I saw a neighbor's 73 2.0 in Marathon Blue parked outside my apartment building while in college back in 1973? .....geez - now I REALLY like the styling - boxy or not!!?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) 3. Buying my 73 914-2.0 in Dec. 75, then spending big bucks almost immediately to repaint it in Aug 76 to the 75/76 Copper Metallic, because I thought the Gold Metallic the PO/OO had repainted it with the Beige seats was too much of the same color tone? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) 4. Spending another $6500+ ($20k+ in today's dollars) - almost what it was worth then, just 4 years later for a complete rolling resto & overhaul in `80-83, including yet another color change to the"black-top cammy" color in my avatar to "save" my DMV point count cuz the Copper was like Orange & Red attracting cops? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) 4. Keeping my 914 on blocks in my garage for 25+ years while raising a family & running my business, after a sorority ditz whacked it in a UCLA parking structure a couple of years after it was resto'd (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif) - because it had a fresh resto/overhaul of the drivetrain/suspension & nice interior, despite that gal mashing the F&R ends of that freshly restored body which would cost me yet another $6500 back then to put right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dead horse.gif) 5. Buying & building a new $2000 storage shed to "make room" in the garage to dig it out & start work? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) 6. Spending as much on parts as it's worth for the resto now, plus whatever the rest of the work requires - & "justifying" it as deferred maintenance from the past 26 years & not being so bad? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) 7. Wanting to save it in the first place, especially after discovering all that rust deterioration over the past 26 years sitting? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) 8. Putting myself through a "12 step white desensitization to white 914s" program, to convince myself to restore it back to it's OE L80E Light Ivory - which is not one of my favorite 914 colors - instead of the Marathon Blue Metallic or Alaska Blue Metallic that I would've bought new? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/white914.jpg) 9. Being corrected by SoCal Andy - that I was not a "one 914 owner" - because I actually have a 2nd 74 shell sitting in the garage now for a parts car? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif) ![]() .... Well I could go on, but that would only increase the chances of my committal!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) |
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