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[Sea Dragon 914]

Yeah, I've been doing 914s for a long time. I had two kids (one in 1997 and one in 1999) and needless to say I was really busy with them and the cars collected dust. If my count isn't off, I've been through nine 914s since 1983 and I gave other friends the fever as well (one of my buddies owned four over a span of less than 5 years including a special order creamsicle that had a painted targa top from the factory; he had the window sticker and original receipts).

Two of my cars were mothballed for the past 10 years. I've been commuting in my Aubergine car and recently got my track car running again. My bumblebee has been dead in the water since 2002 as it has an electrical short from the relay panel to the fuel pump and I haven't had the time to tinker and fix it (plus I'm not great at electrical stuff).

I used to run a lot of PCA GGR driving events and used to be an Auto-X instructor but then the kids came along (not sure how that happened (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) ). The last competitive event I ran was the 2000 Porsche Parade Auto-X in Sacramento where I won my class. One of my buddies ran my car in the TT series in the early 1990's until he had an accident and lost a few of his fingers). So the race car sat from 1992 until this year. Anyway, the kids are old enough now that I can start spending time on other fun things so I decided to get the cars going again. I got the the track car running a couple months ago and have been taking it out on the weekends when the weather is nice (a few weeks back I was at the San Ramon breakfast in it). Most of the time the track car is up on jack stands.

My next priority is to re-build the Aubergine car. I have most of the parts and am looking for a place to redo my heads. Back in the 90's Lee Hamilton did my head work. I'll be contacting him in the next few weeks to see if he'd be willing to do another couple of sets of heads for me. If not, I'll have to find someone else.

I'd like to get the car repainted when I have the engine out so I need to find someone to re-paint it. I'm hoping to have the Aubergine car done by the end of summer. I haven't figured out when I'm going to start working on the bumblebee again. It has been buried under a lot of stuff and I've been slowly digging it out.

Anyway, I want to get active again with the 914s. One of my old race buddies recently bought a tube framed 914 race car (Bill Pickering's 914 race car; I think it is an SCCA GT4 class car) and I was up a Sears with him in December. That inspired me to get back into the cars.

I'm in Pleasant Hill so if you hear a loud type IV bombing around town and you see either an oxidized Aubergine car or Orange 914 with blue race numbers and a variety of sticker on it, it's me.

There is a small plate on the front of the driver's side door jam that has the paint code. Also, I believe there is a VIN number on the passenger front wheel well under the bonnet. I think there is also a chassis number on the passenger side in the rear trunk.

Not to threadjack but wow, Sea Dragon 914 you've been a member for 9 years and that was only your 14th post?!?

Where in NorCal are you, thats quite a list of 914's you got there!

[JeffBowlsby]

Hi Richard...glad you resurfaced.

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