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]

ps midway,
pleased to see you running the us spec front lenses.
i went to a lot of trouble to keep the all amber lenses.
had to build the parking lights into the pop up headlights with an old school (even then) sealed beam unit with the little porthole.
there was a lot of sweaty handed negotiation with the certifying engineer and reg authorities over whether it conformed because the headlights were pop ups. but he convinced them.
i remember some archane clause was found which granted exemption from conforming, rather than them being deemed to conform. strangely the engineer was really sympathetic to the car and convinced the "rules" man at the rego board. i think he thought it was great little car, kept referring to me as the man with the funny german car.
could not keep the us rear lenses. rear indicators had to be amber period.

most others here from that time that i have seen run euro lens set up with parking lights in the bottom half of the lens.

nearly all those cars owners also shaved the side markers off too since 100% of them were repainting the cars doing a resto as well as a conversion. the cars went from us spec to euro spec. there was a bit of taste involved as well.

i was sentimentally attached to the us spec stock look and was (am still) trying to preserve the car.