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Ridiculous 914 stories?, You haven't lived if you have never... |
Moneypit |
Apr 24 2014, 11:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 4-January 06 From: Georgetown, TX Member No.: 5,360 Region Association: Southwest Region |
I was just recalling the first time we ever drove our '74 1.8 with Twin Webers. It was the first 914 we'd had after my dad sold his back in the 80's, and we picked her up for $600 dollars after catching it on fire briefly while trying to turn the motor over. When we got it home, we started digging through the car, and discovered two main things: 1) the passenger side Weber was seized up, which resulted in 2) the crappy metal crank that attaches the go pedal to the throttle cable being broken. So basically the gas pedal was non-functioning. After removing the carb, pulling it apart and freeing it up with WD-40, we at least could get the car finally started! After much trying, backfires, and standing around with fire extinguishers, the motor jumped to life!
Not content to just have the motor running, my dad and our friend (a body man who restores old cars & worked at a porsche/bmw/mercedes/audi dealership) kinda looked at each other and said, "wanna take it around the block?". We had removed the rear trunk and engine lid to get better access in the engine bay, which incidentally led to possibly the most ludicdous 914 sight I've seen yet. I want you to picture someone sitting in the rear trunk, manually running the carburetors by hand, while my dad steered/shifted, and me along for the ride. It took a few moments to synchronize driver/throttle man, but soon we were pulling out of the back alley, and cruising along our neighborhood in a backfiring, trunkless 914 with a guy hanging onto the rollbar working the throttle. Needless to say, all the kids in the neighborhood were pointing and following, then ducking and running when it backfired. We did a few laps, and then parked her, victorious! We only did it the one time, and naturally this was before cell phone cameras and even digital cameras being everywhere, so sorry I don't have a pic or video. Soon we got a replacement lever, rebuilt the carbs with a rebuild kit, sorted the throttle linkage all out, and had her driving normally. Anyone else have ridiculous, 914 stories from your restoration, trips to meets, or just daily driving? |
wes |
Apr 24 2014, 01:26 PM
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wes Group: Members Posts: 1,588 Joined: 8-December 07 From: Ukiah Ca Member No.: 8,436 Region Association: Northern California |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) Well you've certainly got me beat could be redneck humor though.
Mine was no way as funny, I bought a $900 black 914 around 1996 in San Francisco Had a great sunny day running around. She was a pretty good runner for $900 even then. Started to get late and foggy (the car had no top) so headed back home and I learn she didn't like the dark as it seems as though after it got good and dark on some rather fun hard driving back roads towards Sunnyvale the car would just quit so I open the eng. lid took a look with my trusty bic lighter as if I had any idea what to even look for, noticed the battery was lose, pusheed it back to its proper place and for some reason tried to start my new teener up. To my amazement it fired right up and was ready to go. Well, this happened a few more times when I decided I needed to be on a main road as it was very likely that I wasn't going to drive her home under 914 power. So I drove down Elcamino and as I was passing Stanford College decided to cut through the campus as It was getting late, closer to home, oh the battery didn't seem to be charging right and as no one was around turned of the lights and drove on slowly when soddenly I was serouneded by big black GMC Suburbans, like FBI or something. They were, after I told my story pretty cool but made it clear that 1. I needed my lights on and 2. That I was to get the hell off campus! The next day on the news I found that the Clintons had just taken Chelsea to her new college, Stanford! As it turned out the battery keep pushing up on the computer and after the battery was cleaned up and properly tied down she was happy. |
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