1970 914 - 28,816 original miles |
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1970 914 - 28,816 original miles |
Cal |
May 3 2016, 05:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 615 Joined: 19-November 14 From: Philadelphia Member No.: 18,138 Region Association: North East States |
This appears to be a nice low mileage 914 for sale from a highly respected Porsche shop in NC.....Road Scholars. Not cheap.....$35K.
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1970 Neun vierzehn |
May 3 2016, 08:18 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,199 Joined: 16-March 06 From: cincinnati, ohio Member No.: 5,727 |
As an owner of a '70/4 for the past 41 years I am willing to forgive some of the anomalies of this apparently nice example. Those early production cars had some variation to content that were not always apparent to the casual observer.
This car is described as having the "appearance pkg." which it mostly does have. Like my 1970 (with appearance pkg.), it seems that the fog lights were never fitted by the factory. Not long after initial delivery, the originating dealer installed the correct factory spec fog lights, grille and F/L dashboard switch on my car. The appearance group included the chrome bumpers, vinyl roll bar, fog lights and a leather-covered steering wheel; the leather wheel is absent on this car. The center console between the seats is different than mine, however I have seen this item on other early MY70s. The front trunk area surrounding the spare tire looks quite odd to my eyes as it appears that there is a circular "shelf" behind where the spare is fitted in the floor. The rear valence does not appear to be the deep, all encompassing item fitted to the early cars. As a final observation, this example was built the same month (January 1970) as my car. These early cars had a slight variation in their final presentation to their first purchasers that I would overlook on the basis of originality (i.e. lack of fog lights, no leather steering wheel), but the later rear valence was not an item original to a '70/4. All that said, having seen some very marginal 914/4s sell at auction around $10,000., if indeed this car is as original as presented, I think the price is not out of line. I would, however, withhold final say until after a close inspection of the floor pan (inside as well as underneath) and the engine compartment. Paul |
SirAndy |
May 3 2016, 08:27 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,637 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
The front trunk area surrounding the spare tire looks quite odd to my eyes as it appears that there is a circular "shelf" behind where the spare is fitted in the floor. That's just the shadow from the spare tire. Looks like they had multiple light sources for the photo shoot ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) |
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