(Bob) Humphrey’s VW Porsche-Audi dealership, Washington State, Location and performance modifications they did? Options

[Rufus]

Been doing some digging on the history of my car. Seems it was sold new at “Humphrey’s”.

I’ve been told by credible sources there was Humphrey’s VW Porsche-Audi dealer in Everett, Washington. But another credible source has told me Humphrey’s was a VW Porsche dealer in Bellingham, Washington.

The only Humphrey Porsche dealer I find listed both in Jeff Bowlsby’s thread:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...amp;hl=Humphrey

and in an Early911SRegistry thread of 1969 Porsche dealers:

https://www.early911sregistry.org/forums/sh...-Dealers-(1969)

is Humphrey VW Porsche in Hayward, CA..

Can someone please clear up my confusion? I have no local knowledge of that area of the country.

I also understand Humphrey’s was somewhat active in doing 914/6 performance mods and / or selling performance modified 914/6’s during that era. Any insight on this is also welcome.

Thanks guys.

[Rufus]

Yup, Bob Humprey had a few 914-6s,,,,, was fun to see em all being built there ...78-80s .. Is yours the one with the trunk cutout for cis ?
Humphreys was Everrett WA , his Finacial Guy Roger Jobs , opened a Porsche dealership in Bellingham Wa.

Thanks for chiming in, @sixnotfour .

Yep, mine had a cutout trunk panel. The PO to me had the bulkhead filled in using a donor panel. Just spoke at length last night with Jay H., the 3rd prior owner to me. What he described matches what you remember very closely @sixnotfour . My 9140431482 had a stock 2.7L possibly with CIS, in 1993 when Jay owned it. His memory wasn’t clear if the car had a cutout or not; he just said it could have. The next owner then swapped to the 2.7L RS engine (but w/Webers) that’s still in it today. The combination of things you recall and what Jay passed along, makes very likely ‘1482’s the car you saw at Humphrey’s back in the day. Super cool!

So Bob Humphrey owned the dealership in Everett? Was the dealership’s name “Humphrey’s”? Seems odd it doesn’t show in sources I mentioned. Any idea why? Maybe the dealership name was something other than Humphrey’s?

Was it that Humphrey’s closed, and then Roger opened the dealership in Bellingham? Maybe I’m slowly catching on …

Did Bob Humphrey own a number of 914/6’s himself? Or the dealership just did some swaps and other tweeks for customers? Any idea if this was a formal offering to customers, or just happened because of customer demand? Any idea how many may have received this treatment? Can’t help but wonder about others that may still be around today… what engines, etc they got. Wondering about other on 914World whose cars were originally sold through Humphrey’s, or been serviced there in the late ‘70’s - early ‘80’s.

I spoke to Roger about a year ago. IIRC he mentioned there were a few such cars that may have rec’d different size engines, and he has one with a 3.2L.