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.

[ClayPerrine]

Did you do a RHD conversion on it? If so, I would love to see some pictures.

About 10 years ago, I got offered a job in Brisbane. Betty and I really considered it, but I had to turn it down. Her father was in poor health and living in Florida. A trip from Brisbane to Orlando was a 23+ hour ordeal, not including layovers. So I turned it down. They were going to pack everything we owned, including cars, and ship it to Oz. That would have been a rude awakening when they got to the 914 spare parts. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I was really leery about LHD cars on RHD roads. But it would have been really neat to live there.

Clay

[wonkipop]

Did you do a RHD conversion on it? If so, I would love to see some pictures.

About 10 years ago, I got offered a job in Brisbane. Betty and I really considered it, but I had to turn it down. Her father was in poor health and living in Florida. A trip from Brisbane to Orlando was a 23+ hour ordeal, not including layovers. So I turned it down. They were going to pack everything we owned, including cars, and ship it to Oz. That would have been a rude awakening when they got to the 914 spare parts. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I was really leery about LHD cars on RHD roads. But it would have been really neat to live there.

Clay

i did convert to rhd.
so did phillstek who commented here.
did not have a lot of choice back then.

you could get used to driving lhd.
just need to be careful in traffic around unpredictable drivers.

process to convert wasn't much different to the crayfords method documented elsewhere fairly well on websites/literature. (thats how we all knew it was possible, + there were two crayfords cars around melbourne in the 80s, the green one and a white one, so you could see how it was done). photos - i thought i had some somewhere but can't find them yet. all pre digital camera days. you did not photograph things like people do now.

driving it (and driving here) is all just back to front.
no big deal after 1/2 an hour behind the wheel.
only thing you have to get used to is driving upside down.




ps think what people are noticing when they say its cleaner now - is the stance?
and as i say, filmed in australian sunlight, which i can tell you is definitely different to american spec sunlight. its way more brighter down here.

back in 89 it was still arse down, nose up, us sales lot spec stance.
several versions on that i have heard.
deliberately set up for understeer for average us drivers? (a bit unkind of porsche if true/or still scared of ralph nadar).
nose set high for collision bumper regs? (more believable i think).
euro cars seemed to be set level in old photos you see.
we took a bit of time setting it up right this time around with new shocks etc and full suspension rebuild. have it sitting dead level. the arse is sitting up right now on new bilsteins. the springs are still original but reset right on the struts. nose has been dropped a little.
i see some folks seem to set their cars up slightly nose down, esp the 6 guys.