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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?

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I was working on a customers car, he found a 76 that he liked the look of it with GT flares, and rubber bumpers. I got all the body work done, and take him to my paint supplier for the base and clear. He flips through the paint book at Porsche colors and finds a black he likes with gold metallic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) But okay, tell the guy I need a gallon to shoot the car, and matching clear. He looks at us and says, that gallon costs over $1000. To which I say, what does it have real gold in it. And he looks at me and says yes, matter of fact it does. 24K gold flakes. The customer does not bat an eye and says okay.

I get it out and spray a test blank, and he comes over and looks at it. Says he does not like it, and wants it painted in black with silver metallic. So I had a gallon of paint worth $1K sitting on the shelf. After about a year, I finally had a trailer I needed to paint, and I thought hey I have a nice gallon of paint. And painted that livestock trailer with gold flake. Once fancy looking blinged out livestock trailer. You would have thought the cows would have noticed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)