recommissioned., australian 914 Options

[wonkipop]

after 16 years of storage its back up and running.

had this for 31 years.
picked it up in chicago when i lived there back in late 80s/early 90s.
off the first owner.
brought it back to aus with me.

its largely original. 40k miles.
where its not original is i had to convert it to rhd. did that back in 92-93.
thats another story if anyone is interested.
rest of it is showroom stock and untouched.
just finished doing a clay bar deep clean on the phoenix red.
got to the end of today and i was back in 1974.

got inspired by 50th hoo hah. been at it since october last year.
co-vid lockdown got me some extra "vacation" time on the project.

keep on 914-ing all of you.

don't know if this image will work but giving it a try.

[wonkipop]

@sixnotfour . yes, its sitting up too high at front. replaced all shocks. no more boges so its running on biltsteins. boges are in the box with everything else that has ever come off the car. you can still read the 1974 date stamps on the strut towers. we set it up level but have been running it around the block and its resettling so it will all get reset up.

@Bpic . i will see what i can find. when the conversion was done it was a world pre digital cameras and iphones so not much in archive. but i can verbal it. the conversion was done painstakingly and using an original crayfords car as a model (there were two and still are two in australia). the crayfords car belonged to a good mate who has since passed away. bless his soul, he was the original 914 man of aus. but i have some pics showing the firewall which we uncovered again from recent work since we have rebuilt the entire fuel system. plastic fuel lines were well past expiry date. let me just say converting a 914 to rhd drive is just about the most crazy thing you can do (but i was young then and determined), but its better than driving in the gutter, which i did for a while on special permits. these days you do not have to do it in aus if the car is on historic plates. but its no fun on a narrow country road gutter driving. in a funny sort of way i am glad i did it. i will expand later on why a lhd drive vw or porsche is ultimately always better than a rhd vw or porsche, factory or not. its all to do with the stretch to the clutch pedal. and i have driven vws all my life. rhd drive and lhd drive.