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> When did you know..., You had the "Teener" addiction?
montoya 73 2.0
post Jan 30 2011, 03:49 PM
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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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post Jan 30 2011, 08:11 PM
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(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)
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.... Well I could go on, but that would only increase the chances of my committal!!!!
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montoya 73 2.0   When did you know...   Jan 30 2011, 03:49 PM
DanT   that house is on Lean avenue in BlossomValley area...   Jan 30 2011, 03:52 PM
montoya 73 2.0   Yep, thats it! I was seeing a girl that lived ...   Jan 30 2011, 03:59 PM
Krieger   I wasn't entirely convinced until I spent at l...   Jan 30 2011, 04:03 PM
stock93   When I realized the other day I'm still clingi...   Jan 30 2011, 04:25 PM
poorsche914   When I realized the other day I'm still cling...   Jan 30 2011, 04:48 PM
porscheless   I only started last summer; a friend had gotten on...   Jan 30 2011, 04:44 PM
MikeSpraggi   What addiction? ........ +$35K and counting ...   Jan 30 2011, 07:58 PM
Dr Evil   When I saw it, the top came off, and I needed to s...   Jan 30 2011, 08:06 PM
Tom_T   :idea: .......hmmmmmmm.............. You tell me ...   Jan 30 2011, 08:11 PM
Lennies914   I wanted one since high school. After moving from ...   Jan 30 2011, 08:14 PM
Pat Garvey   I knew it from Day 2! Day 1 was spent driving...   Jan 30 2011, 08:49 PM
gasman   I was reading meters in the Bronx NY in a Porsche ...   Jan 30 2011, 08:58 PM
Beach914   Knew that I had an addiction when I sold my clean ...   Jan 30 2011, 09:03 PM
badm   The day I started to have the packages shipped to ...   Jan 30 2011, 09:24 PM
'73-914kid   When you start dreaming about them, you know you...   Jan 30 2011, 09:32 PM
sawtooth   When you start dreaming about them, you know you...   Feb 1 2011, 04:09 PM
JRust   On my paper route when I was 8. Guys had a black s...   Jan 30 2011, 09:38 PM
Jeffs9146   In 1984 when I wrecked my 67 Mustang Convertable o...   Jan 30 2011, 09:57 PM
dangrouche   First a '74 1.8 in 1982, "lost my way...   Jan 30 2011, 10:06 PM
rdauenhauer   I knew on the 18hr drive home to Seattle from Lagu...   Jan 30 2011, 11:31 PM
hot_shoe914   Problem, I have no problem. I only have 3 of them....   Jan 31 2011, 12:12 AM
speed metal army   Problem, I have no problem. I only have 3 of them...   Jan 31 2011, 12:13 AM
saigon71   I knew very early on when I got my first 914 Match...   Jan 31 2011, 06:43 AM
tradisrad   I got my first 914 when I was 18, so that was in 1...   Jan 31 2011, 08:46 AM
carr914   Back in the 70's   Jan 31 2011, 09:16 AM
ClayPerrine   I knew it on my first date with Betty. Her 914 is...   Jan 31 2011, 09:19 AM
Root_Werks   High school, late 80's. My 66' Bug develo...   Jan 31 2011, 09:54 AM
914Sixer   I knew back in the mid 80's I had a problem. ...   Jan 31 2011, 07:11 PM
Garold Shaffer   Went to go test drive a 88 944 back in 94 and the ...   Jan 31 2011, 07:56 PM
914-300Hemi   In 1983 my brothers best friend saved his money an...   Jan 31 2011, 09:43 PM
Betty   I was hooked as soon as I laid eyes on the first 9...   Feb 1 2011, 02:00 PM
SirAndy   He (the car, not Clay) is sitting in the garage ju...   Feb 1 2011, 02:10 PM
montoya 73 2.0   [quote name='Betty' post='1425468' date='Feb 1 20...   Feb 1 2011, 02:20 PM
ClayPerrine   [quote name='Betty' post='1425468' date='Feb 1 20...   Feb 1 2011, 02:32 PM
mtn flyr   I always admired 914s from the seats of my Scirroc...   Feb 1 2011, 02:43 PM


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