My '74 914 Project Begins! Options

[designerguy90]

Hello all!

So my 914 refresh begins! As my car sits, it’s a ’74 1.8, which is somewhat cosmetically challenged (I know the pictures look good, and the car looks pretty good in person, but I am my father’s son and am anal about how my car looks, nothing short of perfection satisfies me).

My current project list includes(and none of these are in “order”):
-Brad Mayeur long kit
-new rocker covers
-dynamat for the firewall
-scuffing, sanding, fixing dents and repainting panels
-hunting for and fixing rust
-replacing battery tray (and fixing the trunk hinge while the engine is dropped, as well as rust hunting and fixing in the engine bay)
-replacing vinyl on sail panels
-refinish wheels
-clean and refinish wheel wells where necessary
-repaint/clean engine tin
-removing wart markers
-miscellaneous problems/projects that pop up along the way
-roll bar and harness bar (I want to autoX)

Currently, I’m planning on doing something fun with the car and giving it a subtle Gulf Oil theme. I have Gulf logos that are going on my front fenders in between where the door and front wheel arch is. I am also toying with either color matching the Fuchs centers Olympic blue, or painting the centers orange, as well as the bumpers, rocker covers and valances. Any thoughts on the paint, or other suggestions as I tear into the car? I am going to do this in quick bursts, so that I can have a car to drive, in between goals in repairing it. Eventually, the goal for the car is a 6 conversion, so I am going to be taking upgrades for that into account as I move forward as well.

-Alex

[designerguy90]

Sooo I had the bumpers and rockers painted orange, absolutely hated it, so theyre in the process of getting painted black (the bumpers are getting the split GT look like I was going to do in the first place (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) ) I will post pics later

big question. I had the car up and finished some welding the other day. As Im leaving my friends house, I notice that my drivers side driving light isnt on. I turn the lights on and off several times, and to no avail, the light doesnt turn on, but the passenger side one ends up not coming on as well. I then realize as Im driving down a pitch black country highway at 9:30pm, my taillights arent on either. I pull over, the driving lights arent on, and the tail lights arent, but my headlights, fogs and license plate lights are working, the break lights work, and my turn signals work, what is going on with my lights??


Thoughts? The car is pretty useless to me if I cant drive it at dusk, because I get out of work around 8pm. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)