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[Ace Le Count]

Does anyone have some crazy 914 stories that they'd like to share? Maybe your son/daughter was born in one? Maybe you drag raced someone that was getting cocky because they thought their riced out civic was faster? Maybe you used a 914 as a getaway car after you robbed a bank? How has your 914 saved the day?

[crtupper]

50 years ago this month I bought my first 914 with appearance group. Tangerine with tan interior (VIN 4702913275). I drove it for 10 years and sold it in 1981. It was a "left-over" and built towards the end of the 70 model year. I had worked at the dealership all through high school and was in the Air Force as an E-2. I was home on a long weekend for my birthday and saw the car on the showroom floor on a Sunday. I called the dealership owner at home and said, "I want the tangerine 914 that's on the floor" and Mr Kaye said, "consider it sold". I came home again the following weekend (stationed 6 hrs from home) and picked it up. It had its quirks, but it got me through 4 years of enlisted USAF, 18 months back at the VW-Porsche-Audi dealership, to college and back to the USAF again where it finally became too "brittle" to trust and I got a Jetta Mk1 2 door sedan. I've checked around ... the VIN seems to be "gone" I think the metal moths got it (rust from salt on New Hampshire winter roads).