I think I got a little carried away, Hobby or Addiction ? |
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I think I got a little carried away, Hobby or Addiction ? |
greenie |
May 14 2005, 10:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 873 Joined: 26-October 04 From: Trinidad Member No.: 3,013 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
First off a big thanks to all the folks that created the " 914 Club" I discovered this site about a month after I bought my car. What a fantastic motivator & sometimes just a big freakin waste of time, I just have to check into the garage to see whats going on everyday.
I've always loved Porches & thought that 914's were such funky cool cars ,looked at lot's over the years but never found one without some major issues. And then last summer my son found this car in Portland. The lady selling had owned it since "77" & was moving to a houseboat & didn't want to leave it outside. "74" 2.0, 32,000 Miles, Perfect Interior , driven 2,000 miles since '88' 100% stock except exhaust. Talked my wife & son into driving to Oregon on our anniversary. I bought it on the spot. The drive back with my son to Seattle was one of the funnest days of my life, throttle sticking open @ 3K most of the trip, dash lights going out at night thru tacoma , a real adventure. Attached image(s) |
Steve Thacker |
May 15 2005, 04:56 AM
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UMMMPH Yea Baby Yea ! UMMMPH Group: Members Posts: 1,089 Joined: 8-January 03 From: Pickerington, Ohio Member No.: 113 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Awesome work and true dedication (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/clap.gif)
Don't worry about the obsession, this is a good obsession. It will keep you out of trouble. Don't worry about the wallet, that was a done deal once you signed your blood to the title. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif) Oh, just don't let the HoneyDo list fall behind. I even use the old but proven method to suck the Mrs in to my restoration causes. "I learned this from my old hotrod teacher" He pulled this off for 50 of his 70 years. This is how it works....... Lets say that you have just got in a ton of new parts over the week and you can hardly sleep thinking about Saturday. Saturday awakes you to a beautiful morning. The Mrs knows that you have car on the brain when you slip out of bed to run and make coffee. What she doesn't know is you are about to pull a trick on her. This trick always confuses their emotional thought processes (or so it seems). See... she thinks that you are going to the garage to tinker on "the car", but what you do is start on all those things that she has asked you a million and one times to fix, move or paint. Yea I know it is painful thought but, you will pull her to your corner. Especially when you have to fork over even more cash to something else needed for the "the car". I have pulled this trick to the tune of 16K over the last five years and now she asks me when I'm going to get busy and order this or that. Dig where I'm going with this?....Just because you are the fox in the chicken coop, doesn't mean you have to eat the chickens like the farmer thinks you will....... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) I have reached the husbandry standard of Freud.....God it feels good to be king! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/happy11.gif) Keep up the hard and good work. You are going to have a masterpiece when you are done. I know it........ |
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