Met a local Teener today I didn't know existed. Has a six no less, Classic 914 story here Options

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Okay here it goes. I get this request on facebook from a guy. Didn't know him but figured he was a 914 guy so I accepted it. Eric from PMB was doing his calipers & mentioned me. With us being in the same area that was great. So he says he'd like to come over & talk cars sometime. I gladly oblige as I can never get enough of it. Plus finding another local 914 guy is exciting. So he comes over tonight & here is the story.

His name is Jim & he has an early 6. I think he said it was 118th one built. We talk for a few minutes about his car. He'd just taken it out after a few years of not driving. Stored inside & he'd start it every once in a while. Anyway he get's it out & the pads are all pretty much locked up on him. So he get's a tip about Eric. Who then mentioned me which is how this all started. So then I walk him around my shop & show him my corvair 914. We talk about it a bit. Then I take him up to my garage to show him my v8 conversion with GT flares. I tell him the story on it about buying a 6 conversion that had burned. I had taken the suspension off of it & put it on my LS1 conversion. At mentioning that burned 6. I started talking about what got me into 914's. When I was a kid I had paper route's. I had this one route in Corvallis on Park St. I tell him this guy had 2 914's. I'd stop & droll over them every morning they were out. The guy didn't get papers so I couldn't sneak up into his driveway to look at them. I tell him the black one was the one that got me. Started my love of 914's. I'm telling him this in a bit of a remembering trance. I snap out of it a bit & notice he's got this big shit eatin grin on his face. He says to me those were mine. I lived on Park St in the 80's (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Unflipping believable but they were his 914's (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shocked[1].gif) . I can't stop smiling. I can't believe 25-30 years later. The black 914-6 that got me to fall in love with 914's is still in town & I finally met the guy who owns it. I tell you what if there was ever an original 6 I need to own. It is that car. He says he'll never sell it. So I said well put in your will if your family ever does. I am the first person they will call.

So there is the story. I seriously can't believe it. this almost mythical 914 from my youth that started this crazy obsession of mine. Is sort of back in my life again. I can't wait to go over & see it again. He said once he get's his calipers on. then gives it a bath I can come over & be reunited (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) . Seriously one of my top 10 914 days ever. I (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) that 914-6