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> 31 years, time flies
wonkipop
post Jan 6 2021, 04:04 AM
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1989
parked outside of frank lloyd wright's johnson wax hq in racine wisconsin.
might have been one of my first biggish drives in it.
think i was pretty stoked that day. 29 - grin from ear to ear.

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2020
some place upside down. feeling a lot older. but still grinning.

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i've tried to look after this car.


been pottering about in some boxes over christmas.
found some stuff.
stickers from swiss and italian 914 registry.
these must date from mid 90s when we started up 914 aus registry.
all three or four of us.
we swapped them our stickers for theirs.
wonder if these two mobs in switzerland and italy are still going strong?

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still got one of the orig 914 register stickers on the car.
the sticker was designed by B C, founder of the club.
he was a graphic designer. did a nice job.
he passed away about 10 years back.

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found a delivery docket for the car in amongst the documents.
forgot i had this.
car came from capitol porsche/audi in washington.
(wasn't a swamp then that had to be drained? or maybe it was).

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and a photo i had dating from back in 1992.
the whimpering 1,8 fresh back from chicago parked next to a crayfords 73 2.0 belonging to BC who founded the register.
would have been the first time two 914s were parked side by side in aus since the days when the distributor had two sixes parked next to each other in 1971.


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wonkipop   31 years   Jan 6 2021, 04:04 AM
bahnzai   Wow, what a great history and caretaker. The car l...   Jan 6 2021, 06:31 AM
wonkipop   no mate. shipped the car from usa to aus 29 years...   Jan 6 2021, 07:20 AM
mb911   My dad actually worked at sc Johnson waxdale dur...   Jan 6 2021, 07:26 AM
wonkipop   you might have. but i was in chicago going to UIC ...   Jan 6 2021, 07:37 AM
PanelBilly   The car looks cleaner now   Jan 6 2021, 12:48 PM
MM1   Good stuff - thanks for sharing.   Jan 6 2021, 12:55 PM
JeffBowlsby   Mr. Wonkipop...by chance are you an architect or t...   Jan 6 2021, 01:01 PM
wonkipop   Mr. Wonkipop...by chance are you an architect or ...   Jan 6 2021, 03:20 PM
phillstek   Great story and really good to hear from another l...   Jan 6 2021, 02:31 PM
wonkipop   Great story and really good to hear from another ...   Jan 6 2021, 03:45 PM
phillstek   Great story and really good to hear from another...   Jan 7 2021, 05:36 AM
wonkipop   [quote name='wonkipop' post='2880933' date='Jan 7...   Jan 7 2021, 04:43 PM
ClayPerrine   Did you do a RHD conversion on it? If so, I would...   Jan 6 2021, 05:50 PM
wonkipop   Did you do a RHD conversion on it? If so, I woul...   Jan 6 2021, 09:27 PM
wonkipop   ps the one thing i will confess to tearing out of ...   Jan 6 2021, 10:11 PM
ClayPerrine   After 34 years of 914 ownership, I found that that...   Jan 7 2021, 07:24 AM
wonkipop   After 34 years of 914 ownership, I found that tha...   Jan 7 2021, 04:34 PM
ConeDodger   These days if you tried to bring a car in to Aus y...   Jan 7 2021, 12:22 PM
wonkipop   These days if you tried to bring a car in to Aus ...   Jan 7 2021, 04:49 PM
ClayPerrine   Much as we would love to go to Oz and Mount Panora...   Jan 7 2021, 07:32 PM
wonkipop   i don't even go inside restaurants. forget abo...   Jan 7 2021, 09:14 PM
wonkipop   conversion photos from back in 91/92 still can...   Jan 9 2021, 07:50 PM
phillstek   Awesome piece of Aussie 914 history there. I’v...   Jan 9 2021, 11:57 PM
wonkipop   Awesome piece of Aussie 914 history there. I’...   Jan 10 2021, 01:27 AM
phillstek   The ‘rock star’ 6 story is intriguing, I would...   Jan 10 2021, 02:00 AM
wonkipop   no worries phillsteck. see what i can find out. ...   Jan 10 2021, 04:04 AM


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