First & 2nd Gen 914 owners, What will you do with your 914 when you get really old? Options

[Pat Garvey]

I bought my 914 new in 72 - really seems like yesterday, but Mother Nature has a way of bringing one eventually into reality. Had it more than 35 years now & I'm finding that something as simple as getting off of a creeper can be laborious. I still have a lecherous 25 year old mind, but some OTHER things are staring to get stiff!

So, when will the time come that I have to part with this car. Been driving it for over 35 years, but I don't see me driving it for another 35. May make it close (my Mother just had her 94th birthday & finally gave up her 2000 Civic, with all of 13K miles on it), but I don't see me driving a 914 at 100 (I DO plan on achieveing that).

My question is to those 1st & 2nd owners of 914. Will you part with it? When?

Will you be buried in it? If so, will you have new seals put on it first?

Think about this - the 914 was last produced 33 years ago. When it was LAST produced, how many people were tooling around in 1942 cars? Take it another twenty years & how many people were riding around in Model T's at the time you got your 914? How many people even wanted a Model T then & how many people want a Model T now?

So, should all us old timers bail out of our 914's now, while the price has risen? Or, literally, drive them into the grave?