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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 4-January 06 From: Georgetown, TX Member No.: 5,360 Region Association: Southwest Region ![]() |
I was just recalling the first time we ever drove our '74 1.8 with Twin Webers. It was the first 914 we'd had after my dad sold his back in the 80's, and we picked her up for $600 dollars after catching it on fire briefly while trying to turn the motor over. When we got it home, we started digging through the car, and discovered two main things: 1) the passenger side Weber was seized up, which resulted in 2) the crappy metal crank that attaches the go pedal to the throttle cable being broken. So basically the gas pedal was non-functioning. After removing the carb, pulling it apart and freeing it up with WD-40, we at least could get the car finally started! After much trying, backfires, and standing around with fire extinguishers, the motor jumped to life!
Not content to just have the motor running, my dad and our friend (a body man who restores old cars & worked at a porsche/bmw/mercedes/audi dealership) kinda looked at each other and said, "wanna take it around the block?". We had removed the rear trunk and engine lid to get better access in the engine bay, which incidentally led to possibly the most ludicdous 914 sight I've seen yet. I want you to picture someone sitting in the rear trunk, manually running the carburetors by hand, while my dad steered/shifted, and me along for the ride. It took a few moments to synchronize driver/throttle man, but soon we were pulling out of the back alley, and cruising along our neighborhood in a backfiring, trunkless 914 with a guy hanging onto the rollbar working the throttle. Needless to say, all the kids in the neighborhood were pointing and following, then ducking and running when it backfired. We did a few laps, and then parked her, victorious! We only did it the one time, and naturally this was before cell phone cameras and even digital cameras being everywhere, so sorry I don't have a pic or video. Soon we got a replacement lever, rebuilt the carbs with a rebuild kit, sorted the throttle linkage all out, and had her driving normally. Anyone else have ridiculous, 914 stories from your restoration, trips to meets, or just daily driving? |
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Advanced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,264 Joined: 3-March 14 From: San Clemente, Ca Member No.: 17,068 Region Association: Southern California ![]() |
The yellow '73 that I have just gotten running and sorted has headlights that don't exactly want to work. I was out driving yesterday, puling the switch in and out multiple times (to "wake" it up?) and the headlight doors open at random times. Sometimes halfway up, usually one at a time. I had my wife sit in the car and pull the switch and the car looks like it is blinking at me. I think 914s have a sly sense of humor.
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Newbie ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 24-May 12 From: United States Member No.: 14,476 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region ![]() |
Bought a 73 1.7 in '79. About '82 I'm driving with my girlfriend to a bar in the back country. We're having a mild argument about ??? The car has been acting up, threatening to stall whenever I get off the throttle. It's fall and rainy and there are lots of wet leaves. I am really going slow on this twisty road and everytime I lift the throttle I declutch and rev it to keep it going. After about 10 minutes of this we come to a little 90 degree turn at the top of a rise. When I declutch we go into a very slow lift throttle oversteer spin. Good old 914 low polar moment of inertia results in a pirouette 540. All going about 5mph. We spin into a little ditch. The car tips up on its side but is luckily stopped from rolling over by a wooden fence post. The car rolls back on its wheels and we stop. The first words out of my mouth, "are you ok?" Just then the farmer pulls up on his tractor yanks the car out of the ditch and refuses my offer of money for the tow or the fence damage. Talk about lucky. But the real luck was when we got back in the car. I got a big smootch and the argument is over. Why? "The first words out of your mouth was asking if I was ok" "You cared more about me then that damn car" |
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