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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. |
ConeDodger |
Jan 7 2021, 12:22 PM
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Apex killer! Group: Members Posts: 23,616 Joined: 31-December 04 From: Tahoe Area Member No.: 3,380 Region Association: Northern California |
These days if you tried to bring a car in to Aus you’d have to prove it contained no asbestos. The process is expensive. I follow the Mighty Car Mods guys on YouTube and their adventures with importing look pretty intimidating to be sure...
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wonkipop |
Jan 7 2021, 04:49 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 |
These days if you tried to bring a car in to Aus you’d have to prove it contained no asbestos. The process is expensive. I follow the Mighty Car Mods guys on YouTube and their adventures with importing look pretty intimidating to be sure... yep, they will make you tear the clutch out if you can't prove its a new non - asbestos one. and they will charge you for dealing with it all as a hazardous material. its gone mad. you are at the mercy of the bureaucrats. it was not like that when i bought the 914 in. fortunately. we just pulled the original clutch out of it. one of those rubber core clutches. museum piece. and fully asbestos loaded. i could be wrong, but i suspect the brake pads which i still have not needed to change are asbestos. but i am not poking my nose into that ants nest just yet. |
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