What made you want to get a 914?, I will start Options

[burton73]

What made you want to get a 914?
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) I will start.

I had friends with 911 and I got a 911. When I spun a bearing in my 73 911 my car was in the machine shop in Burbank, CA I went there for lunch on a regular basis.
One of the friends of the owner had a factory real 914-6 with a 3.0 in it. This was back in 1978 and this was not the norm for 914s

Well this friend gave me a ride back from the restaurant and I noted not only how his car seemed faster than my 911 but he was going around 50 miles per hour and he made a right turn. I thought we would crash but instead his car in Slot Like form just made the turn. Like on Rails like a fast ride in Disneyland.

After that I always wanted one. And when someone stole my 911, I got my first of many.

Bob B

[Chris914n6]

It was an issue of VW & Porsche around 1989, had an article about setting up 914 suspensions for racing. Also influenced by a black 914 with vented rocker panels and rubber skirts parked near UNLV that I would bike by couple times a month.

Decided the 914 would be a good first step towards a racing career. I went with the first 914 my parents finally let me look at. At $3500 I could buy it or an 86 RX7. Shouldn't have. Spent what little money I had left fixing it instead of racing, and Mom decided she would only $upport a college related future. So the reality was me driving a black on black car with no A/C to summer jobs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

An old man in a new Lexus killed that car. I found a rust free non-running car a block away while cycle training for $1000. Couldn't drive and swap parts at the same time, so I bought a Nissan pickup (parts hauler) with the V6, and A/C. (forshadowing)

First 914 had a mutt 2 liter with Solex industrial carbs, the second nice Webber 40s on a 1.8 that I couldn't get running right, so I bought 914 #3 for the strong 2.0FI and #4 as part of the package for $2000.

The rest of the story belongs in a build thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sunglasses.gif)