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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 |
DonTraver |
Jun 27 2005, 09:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 829 Joined: 5-August 04 Member No.: 2,461 |
About one day.
I was standing in my driveway one Saturday, thinking what's the most fun car I ever had. It was the 71 914 I'd had in the 80's that I'd made a speed run from Alemeda, San Francisco to San Diego in 7 1/2 hours down Hwy 101. In the passenger seat was a guy that worked for me, so I've got a wittness. Anyway, walked up to the 7/11, bought a Auto Trader, started looking. The next day, out having coffee with my oldest son, mentioned it to him, he says, "Grandpa is thinking about selling him 914-6". I go no way. But I called as soon as I got home. My mom answered the phone, I said, I heard from Rick that John was thinking of selling his 914-6, she says, "What are you smoking". I said, I'm just asking, I'm going to the movies, I'll call you when I get home. Called when I got home, they said they'd sell it too me for $10K. It had a fresh engine/tranny with only 11k miles on it. It'd been upgraded to run unleaded fuel. In other words, pristine condition. no rust. Only rust I found during the restoration was under the passenger side door rubber seal, about as big as your small finger nail. When I finished the restroration, I took it back to show John, gave him the keys, he looked at me, said, "I didn't let anyone else drive it for 30 years, you shouldn't either, gave me the keys back, we went for a ride. He loved the way it looked, drove, and handled. So do I. So this is a family treasure. And I still get complements from strangers about this car, there's been a couple of jabs from jerks, but they just told me who they are, don't need them. They're the low mileage profilers, who use a Porsche as a status symbol, big phonies, you can find them anywhere, PCA, POC, etc. Any real car nuts realize that a 914 doing what it does best (driving twisty roads, tracks) is a awesome piece of engineering machinery. Nuff said. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) |
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