31 years, time flies |
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31 years, time flies |
wonkipop |
Jan 6 2021, 04:04 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,403 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
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 |
Jan 6 2021, 10:11 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,403 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
ps the one thing i will confess to tearing out of the car and throwing away.
(it aint in a box). the seat belt interlock system. it was still in this car in 89. what a pain in the a. you couldn't put a bag on the passenger seat without doing up that seat belt or it would not start. + it had some hot relay problem under the passenger seat that was part of the system and would cause no start situations at random times. it all came out in 91/92 and was thrown away in a bin with the lid slammed down. re rhd. i think the best rhd cars would be the GT40s and 917s set up for Le Mans. you get the best of both worlds then with the shifter on the sill. its much better shifting across the body like you do left hand drive. left foot clutch. right hand shifter. the whole left of body side for shifting when rhd is in my humble opinion inferior. i should be defending uk standards shouldn't i, but why would i do that, l'm old school and thats pom rubbish. at least the swedes had the sense to swap over to lhd. which leaves us stranded with the japanese going about it all wrong. |
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