New to me 75 914 1.8 in Copper Metallic, Former Texas car in storage for 20+ years then another 5 or so Options

[914rrr]

I recently purchased a 75 1.8 in Metallic Copper L99K.

I wasn't really looking for a 914 but my wife alerted me to it on FB. I'm usually skeptical about teeners for sale online and I'd pretty much given up hope of finding a relatively rust free 914 that didn't require years on jack stands to be roadworthy for a reasonable price. This one met all the criteria and then some.

The seller posted some fairly good pics including the underside. It looked surprisingly clean in pics and even better in person. It started, ran, and drove reasonably well in sellers' backyard.

Story was, it belonged to the sellers brother who purchased it of Texas 20+ years ago. He drove it for a couple of years, it developed some oil leaks, he parked it and he had health issues. It was acquired by his son or grandson who had the engine rebuilt by Tony Proasi (who took 1.5 years to get around to rebuilding it), but decided it was too small for him and turned his attention to a Miata, hence the sale.

Here's the first pic:

[DRPHIL914]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif) very Nice!! i just saw this thread when updated, i missed the original post.

I have wondered how many 914's were actually ordered with our L99K Copper Metallic paint, I've seen only 3-4 others here on the forum and a couple have come up for sale, one in florida one up north and now yours from Texas. Mine was an Ohio car originally, the other 2 i know of here are JIm Hoyland's in CA and one in Peoria Illinois