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[Ace Le Count]

Does anyone have some crazy 914 stories that they'd like to share? Maybe your son/daughter was born in one? Maybe you drag raced someone that was getting cocky because they thought their riced out civic was faster? Maybe you used a 914 as a getaway car after you robbed a bank? How has your 914 saved the day?

[infraredcalvin]

Junior year of college, 1999, commuted from Newport Beach to Cal Poly Pomona in my 75 914. I schedule my first hpde with the car, a day before I blew out one of the j exhaust pipes. In the epic all night repair With my roommate, we stripped out a spark plug, found and replaced broken rings, changed out clutch, put it all back together only to find the j pipe had different flange alignments from year to year... I had the wrong one. At 4am we called it quits - I guess the car didn’t want to go. Car ran like crap after all that work, decided to pull engine for rebuild shortly afterwards.

I borrowed a car from my roommates mom, this was the go to car for all our friends with car trouble, 85 Buick Electra estate wagon - pristine, but with miles. Took me close to a year to rebuild the motor with school and no money, finished it up the night before my last final exam (come to think if it, I can’t remember why I was working on my car vs studying for my exam). Decided I was too tired and wanted to rest for my exam before the official 1st fire - I actually didn’t want the bad news of it not firing before I took my exam.

Next day aced my exam, all done and feeling great! On my way home the loaner car overheated and cracked the block, I limped it home, filling with water every 10 min or so, it completely died about 20 feet from my garage. After calling a wrecking yard and watching the wagon get towed away, I walked over to the 914 turned the key and it fired right up! Tuned it up, drove it to my graduation ceremony the following week!