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| Krieger |
 Jul 17 2021, 08:37 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 4,703 Joined: 24-May 04 From: Santa Rosa CA Member No.: 2,104 Region Association: None 
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QUOTE(Gatornapper @ Aug 19 2019, 03:25 PM)  Ok, friends and family. It's time you all find out where Gatornapper came from. NOT my own invention! Major US newspaper gave me and a friend the name after we "borrowed" a full-grown 6' alligator. No - not in Florida or Louisiana. NOT in the South. Indiana. 1965. I was 20. And no, I wasn't totally sober. Miracle we did not get hurt. See my notes after the articles: (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i890.photobucket.com-2104-1626532630.1.jpeg) Half the details are flat wrong. Only I and one other guy were involved, and he is deceased, so I'm the only living Gator Napper left. I wasn't drunk, but my buddy was...I was 'designated driver'. But I wasn't sober either. After 2 prank attempts, we released Alberta in a pond in the middle of a thick forest, thinking we'd never hear of her again. What we did not know is that a creek went from that pond into the largest lake in Indiana, 5 x 2 miles. And when the lake folk began to see a full-grown alligator in their resort place, they got just a little upset for some reason. And called for the cops to find out who put the alligator in the lake, and to of course, hang them. We were facing 6 years in jail and $6,000.00 in fines. That's a lot for 1965. The judge tore into us making me think he was going to give us LIFE. But he then showed mercy.......my first - of many - taste of the mercy of God...... And BTW, rather than Gator, I prefer "Napper" - cause we "Napped" the Gator....but my name is Richard. But whatever works for you is cool too. GN (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) holy crap! What an adventure! Glad you did not get 6 years. |
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| Jett |
Jul 17 2021, 10:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,636 Joined: 27-July 14 From: Seattle Member No.: 17,686 Region Association: Pacific Northwest
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QUOTE(Gatornapper @ Aug 9 2019, 04:33 PM) Ok, discovered leaking piston O ring on front right caliper - which is from a BMW 320i (assuming PO would not lie to me about this). Delighted to find out from Pelican that there are only 2 - 320i calipers - 2 piston ('79 - '83) & 4 piston (later) - mine are 2-piston, so I ordered a rebuild kit for both calipers. Too bad PMB doesn't rebuild them - asked Eric but never heard back from him...... Anyone know if the original front 914 calipers were noted for being a weak design? GN I sent my BMW calipers in to PMB and they took them in trade for a stock set. These folks are amazing! Great Gator story! |
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| Gatornapper |
Jul 26 2021, 07:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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930cabman asked on the IDF 44 thread if I was finished and had another project ahead. Not hardly.
There is still still TONS of stuff to do to my 914. There are about a dozen small rust spots that need to be fixed, most where upper body meets lower body. Scotty Burnett looked at the car and said it indeed was a rare one for lack of rust, but some of the small rust spots could be deep. Won't know until we dig into them. Trunk and frunk lids are both hail damaged and the paint is badly oxidized - beyond recovery. What's weird is the tops of the four quarter panels are all fine. Not sure what to do with the lids - open to suggestions. Might find & paint ones from another car. Rocker panels bent and need attention. Dash is badly cracked in many places. Anderssj gave me a nice dash with no cracks except one that has been nicely repaired in the center of the crown above the tach - hardly noticeable & hidden by steering wheel. Someday that has to go in, and that is a multi-day job. I want to take the car back to its original Malaga Red. The Scarlett Red paint job is a top-notch CA job, very thick. It needs to be removed. Want to get down at least to the original paint. No idea how/when that will happen, especially due to lack of funds. Problem is while I'm pretty good at wrenching, I am hopeless at body work. And I cannot afford to pay an expert to do an expert job. And I hate body work - love wrenching. A number of little things to address, though everything works. So I'll be piddling on the car for some time. But in the meantime, I'll just enjoy driving it. Over 2,000 miles in the last 6 weeks! GN |
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| Gatornapper |
Nov 30 2022, 07:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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I cannot believe it's been over 3 year since I posted on this thread! MY BAD for not logging 3 years of history like others do - just too many other things going on I guess.
I know I posted somewhere, but first is the new look of my Mahle's......about 3 years ago..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669858812.1.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669858813.2.JPG) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669858813.3.JPG) More coming...... |
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| Gatornapper |
Nov 30 2022, 07:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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Put about 6,000 miles on her and started having engine trouble a year ago.
Decided to do top-end rebuild of engine with new heads, P's & C's from George, and a tranny rebuild so I dropped the engine in August.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669859579.1.JPG) My best Porsche friend Rick Berkowitz helped (72 - 914, 79 - 911 SC, 85 - 944) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669859579.2.JPG) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669859579.3.JPG) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669859579.4.JPG) |
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| Gatornapper |
Nov 30 2022, 08:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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And decided while I was rebuilding the engine, it would be a good time to take the Scarlet Red beauty to my restoration painter (who gave me a slot in his schedule a year ago) to have a 1st class repaint & body resto to like new in her original Malaga Red. His slot opened up before I even got started on the engine.
WHY? Because I was working on the 924 Turbo to sell it......and find a nice 944! Restoration shop just got started on her this week! Oh - one detail: the sails will not be black vinyl, but Malaga Red. Can't wait to see how that looks...... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669860113.1.JPEG) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/hosting.photobucket.com-21449-1669860114.2.JPEG) So now I'll start a new thread on my selling my 924 Turbo that I did a 90% restore on - and what the good Lord dropped out of heaven on me! GN |
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| Gatornapper |
Apr 25 2023, 06:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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Well well! My body shop restoration painter tells me that my 914 is ready except for installing the "Porsche" rocker panels I got from Auto Atlanta and I should pick it up this Thursday.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) Can't wait. Photos will be forthcoming when I get the car. Will look like new. Sad part is top-end rebuild on engine is mid-way, but good news is tranny rebuild is complete. So the car will have to sit on my lift with my sweet 944 S (my daily driver) underneath it so both cars - and my 928 - can be out of the weather. Like in the 3rd pic on Post #165 above.......... Stand by for a beautiful Malaga Red 914..... GN |
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| flipb |
Apr 25 2023, 07:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,719 Joined: 2-September 09 From: Fairfax, VA Member No.: 10,752 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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Did you refinish the Mahles? They look great in the photos from November. Mine look pretty tired by comparison.
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| Gatornapper |
Apr 25 2023, 05:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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QUOTE(flipb @ Apr 25 2023, 07:06 AM) Did you refinish the Mahles? They look great in the photos from November. Mine look pretty tired by comparison. Mahle's were professionally powder-coated about 4 years ago I think. They look new. BTW, I was going to paint them myself and even got so far as putting primer on them. I have Wolfsburg original color (L91?) - 4 - spray cans worth over $30/each available if anyone can use them. Will sell at a discount. GN |
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| Gatornapper |
May 3 2023, 03:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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| BillJ |
May 3 2023, 03:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,091 Joined: 4-March 13 From: charlotte, NC Member No.: 15,610 Region Association: None
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QUOTE(Krieger @ Jul 17 2021, 10:37 AM) QUOTE(Gatornapper @ Aug 19 2019, 03:25 PM) Ok, friends and family. It's time you all find out where Gatornapper came from. NOT my own invention! Major US newspaper gave me and a friend the name after we "borrowed" a full-grown 6' alligator. No - not in Florida or Louisiana. NOT in the South. Indiana. 1965. I was 20. And no, I wasn't totally sober. Miracle we did not get hurt. See my notes after the articles: (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i890.photobucket.com-2104-1626532630.1.jpeg) Half the details are flat wrong. Only I and one other guy were involved, and he is deceased, so I'm the only living Gator Napper left. I wasn't drunk, but my buddy was...I was 'designated driver'. But I wasn't sober either. After 2 prank attempts, we released Alberta in a pond in the middle of a thick forest, thinking we'd never hear of her again. What we did not know is that a creek went from that pond into the largest lake in Indiana, 5 x 2 miles. And when the lake folk began to see a full-grown alligator in their resort place, they got just a little upset for some reason. And called for the cops to find out who put the alligator in the lake, and to of course, hang them. We were facing 6 years in jail and $6,000.00 in fines. That's a lot for 1965. The judge tore into us making me think he was going to give us LIFE. But he then showed mercy.......my first - of many - taste of the mercy of God...... And BTW, rather than Gator, I prefer "Napper" - cause we "Napped" the Gator....but my name is Richard. But whatever works for you is cool too. GN (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) holy crap! What an adventure! Glad you did not get 6 years. Three leged gator???? |
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| Gatornapper |
May 3 2023, 06:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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Yea, lost one in the Glades I guess, probably to another gator. If it had had 4 legs, we mighta been hurt......
Lotsa errors/untruths in articles - as normal with media even 58 years ago. One article said Alberta was from Florida, the other from Louisiana....only the Lord knows... Only Chris Wooling and I were involved, and he's passed so I am the only living Gatornapper on the planet.....my claim to fame........ Of course this is my biker name - many in the Harley world only know me as Gatornapper......too many shorten it to "Gator"........ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) GN (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) holy crap! What an adventure! Glad you did not get 6 years. [/quote] Three legged gator???? [/quote] |
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| r_towle |
May 4 2023, 08:59 AM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,567 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States
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Well,
Great story and I hope your new engine build goes smoothly. Rich |
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| Gatornapper |
May 4 2023, 07:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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Thanks Rich - I hope so too.
Kinda down now - found out docs can do nothing to help my brother in south FLA who is dying from liver failure - cirrhosis. He's in and out mentally due to high ammonia in blood - hepatic encephaly. I'll never see him again.....a good guy. GN QUOTE(r_towle @ May 4 2023, 08:59 AM) Well, Great story and I hope your new engine build goes smoothly. Rich |
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| Cairo94507 |
May 7 2023, 05:27 PM
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Michael Group: Members Posts: 9,719 Joined: 1-November 08 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 9,712 Region Association: Northern California
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GN - Sorry to hear about your brother; I hope he passes peacefully in his sleep.
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| 87m491 |
May 8 2023, 01:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 274 Joined: 29-July 12 From: Portland, the original! Member No.: 14,731 Region Association: North East States
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I replaced the transmission mounts on my 74. Of course on butting up the second one I noticed that the mount had an indexing pin on them to positively locate them to together with the metal "hat/saddle"
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i.imgur.com-14731-1683574223.1.jpg) So of course it comes out as does the first to make sure they were indexed correctly. That said the two nuts for each anchor bolt of the mount also have a shoulder that sits in the holed to center the bolts and keep it from shifting. 2 of mine were on wrong so I'm guessing my mounts were old replacements. |
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| Gatornapper |
May 15 2023, 08:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,205 Joined: 22-September 17 From: Woods west of Richmond, VA Member No.: 21,449 Region Association: South East States
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"914 - 2.0" Decal Location
Went through this before and thought I posted about this when I put my first decal on a couple years ago - but if so I cannot find it. As car has just been repainted, I'm putting on a new "914 - 2.0" sticker that the '75/'76 914's had. But as I'm a detail freak - I'd like some precise details about the location of the decal. Any help is greatly appreciated. Precise measurements to .1mm would be great! I think I remember that vertically the decal centerline is aligned with the centerline of the trunk button. If so, all I need is horizontal dimensions to taillight on right, trunk button on left. TIA! GN |
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| 930cabman |
May 16 2023, 01:31 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,001 Joined: 12-November 20 From: Buffalo Member No.: 24,877 Region Association: North East States
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Thanks for giving up the napper!!
may your brother go peacefully with all those machines in the stable, how can you decide which one to pilot? |
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| flipb |
May 16 2023, 01:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,719 Joined: 2-September 09 From: Fairfax, VA Member No.: 10,752 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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QUOTE(Gatornapper @ May 15 2023, 09:53 AM) "914 - 2.0" Decal Location Went through this before and thought I posted about this when I put my first decal on a couple years ago - but if so I cannot find it. As car has just been repainted, I'm putting on a new "914 - 2.0" sticker that the '75/'76 914's had. But as I'm a detail freak - I'd like some precise details about the location of the decal. Any help is greatly appreciated. Precise measurements to .1mm would be great! I think I remember that vertically the decal centerline is aligned with the centerline of the trunk button. If so, all I need is horizontal dimensions to taillight on right, trunk button on left. TIA! GN Mine's a '74 so it has the solid badges (as opposed to sticker) but if the placement is the same, I can take a photo and/or try to measure for you. |
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