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How long did it take?, til you found the right 914 |
brokenmoped |
Jun 26 2005, 12:29 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 27-May 05 From: Mission Viejo, CA Member No.: 4,152 |
Hey guys,
I'm new here, but I've been checking this site pretty much everyday for about six months now, so I decided I might as well introduce myself. My name is Corey, and I'm a 20 yr old POOR college student. I've been searching frantically for the perfect 1973 2.0 (of course) for quite awhile now and was wondering how long it took everyone to find their very own special teener. And also, where do you guys look?! I use Ebay, collectorcartrader, google, and the classified section on this site. I bought the last few local autotraders, but to no avail. I'm in Orange County, by the way. Anywho, nice to finally find a forum where people don't talk about ricerz they "PWND" in a sweet drag race d00d (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif) Thanks, Corey |
ThinAir |
Jun 26 2005, 01:16 AM
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Best friends Group: Members Posts: 2,543 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Flagstaff, AZ Member No.: 231 Region Association: Southwest Region |
I fell in love with 914s in 1978 and it took me until 1990 to find my first one. Not that I was looking all that long, It just took that long before everything came together for me to get my first one. I drove it pretty much "as is" until 2002 when I took it apart to restore it and then had to put the project aside. It's still on my back porch, waiting.
In the meantime I got a new job and decided that the fastest way to good & fun transportation was a "new" 914. It took me a couple of months of looking at the 914World.com classifieds to find my dream car - like yours, a 73 2.0L that had already been repainted. I had to fly to Seattle to get it, but then again Flagstaff isn't close to any ready source of 914s. As has been mentioned, spend the money up front. My big limitation on my 72 is body work. Mechanical I can handle. I spent more to get a car that already had done what I wanted on the body. Even though I'd had a ppi and thought the car was good, I ended up before long with a dead engine because of something I'd missed, as well as having to fix a totally broken clutch tube. So make sure that if you don't know how to do stuff that you are at least committed to learning. It's well worth it when you find the right car and it is "in the zone" and running right. There is no smilie big enough for the smile on my face every time I turn the key! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) Oh yeah, welcome! I'm glad you have introduced yourself! |
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