914 V8 Owners, What is the purpose of your car? Options

[Tom73]

Okay, let’s try this question again.

For those that have a 914 V8, was wondering about the purpose of your car. Is it a street racer? …a track car (auto-x, road race, drag)? …a show car? …a cruiser? …a ????

When I posted this question before, I went on to express my philosophy for a V8 914 and that got us way off track in the responses.

So 914 V8 owners, what is the purpose of your car?

tom…

[mrihop]

Reliability! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

Can you get away with making your Porsche engine as powerful for less than 2x the $$green$$ as we V8ers have spent? Then imagine putting that kind of money to build up a SBC!

The V8 muscle rumble sounds a bit better than the VW putter.

Easier to work on.

The problems with a V8 car...

Tickets (yet to receive one in my car though)

Ear to ear grin that gets stuck sometimes. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

Become VERY VERY sick of rice rockets trying to race .... end result is a waste of gas to prove, YES, they in fact DO have a crappy car. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/finger.gif)

Sometimes a $500,000 cars manage to out run you. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif)

By the way, right now my car is a street cruiser.