31 years, time flies Options

[wonkipop]

1989
parked outside of frank lloyd wright's johnson wax hq in racine wisconsin.
might have been one of my first biggish drives in it.
think i was pretty stoked that day. 29 - grin from ear to ear.



2020
some place upside down. feeling a lot older. but still grinning.



i've tried to look after this car.


been pottering about in some boxes over christmas.
found some stuff.
stickers from swiss and italian 914 registry.
these must date from mid 90s when we started up 914 aus registry.
all three or four of us.
we swapped them our stickers for theirs.
wonder if these two mobs in switzerland and italy are still going strong?



still got one of the orig 914 register stickers on the car.
the sticker was designed by B C, founder of the club.
he was a graphic designer. did a nice job.
he passed away about 10 years back.



found a delivery docket for the car in amongst the documents.
forgot i had this.
car came from capitol porsche/audi in washington.
(wasn't a swamp then that had to be drained? or maybe it was).




and a photo i had dating from back in 1992.
the whimpering 1,8 fresh back from chicago parked next to a crayfords 73 2.0 belonging to BC who founded the register.
would have been the first time two 914s were parked side by side in aus since the days when the distributor had two sixes parked next to each other in 1971.

[wonkipop]

you might have.
but i was in chicago going to UIC on a fulbright.
i ducked up to racine to check out the wright building.
hammered up the expressway.
i was not living in racine.

though i did do a trip out to frank's taliesen east home office once and the lads out there still running his office had some nice cars. i particularly remember a corvair monza belonging to one of the guys. a very clean and very hopped up monza.

i just noticed in photo that the passenger sunvisor is off.
it always fell off.
still does, but now it falls in my lap on the drivers side.

chicago is a great part of the world.
i have good memories and the car to remind me.

the car originally came from washington and the original owners moved with it to madison wis. where i bought it from them.