914 Online: This is where it all started..., In 1996. Options

[914werke]

Jeff Gacek! Jeff quietly did more for that first 914 Club page than many will ever know.

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[Bleyseng]

I found those 914 sites right after I bought my 914 in 1995. Those were the days of searching for decent info on how to do stuff on your car!

Still have this on my rear glass! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

[Dave_Darling]

I got involved in 1991, right after getting my first 914. I had a co-worker who was a 911 owner, and not only got me into Porsches, and autocrossing, but also onto the Porschephiles mailing list.

That went south, in large part because there was one guy trying to maintain and do everything, and because it was for all Porsches and the activity level was overwhelming.

I think I learned about Tim's Fan Page there? Not sure. He had great info, and eventually a fairly small forum. At one point, Tim stopped maintaining the page in part because he had gotten a MR-2 Spyder and was making a similar page for that. I think he also sold the company that had been hosting the pages, and while they agreed to keep them around they didn't add anything new.

I'm pretty sure I read about Pelican on porschephiles, but I'm not sure I started sending them content until later.

Unka Dunka (John Dunkle) and probably a bunch of other folks then set up Rennlist, after some mis-steps. (I think "porschelist" and possibly "porschefans" was earlier but they had to change the name when Porsche noticed them.) That one exploded into web-based forums, web hosting, and a bunch of other stuff. Dunkle sold it a while ago, and the web forums seem to be the main part now.

I found the Renegade page in the early 90s, and they had a very active BBS. *VERY* active! I think that rattled to a halt after the Jeff sold DGI? Again, the buyer signed up to keep things as-is, but they didn't put any new work into it.

Randy started up Roadglue somewhat later, and it had a reasonably active forum.

Eventually the folks on Rennlist started talking about a 914club website, which I finally joined.

I never really made it onto ClubNARP.

And here we are!

Nice to see some of the folks from back then are still posting! I didn't associate your names (or your old user names) with your current user names.

--DD

[fixer34]

For those who were asking about Dennis Deeds and 914 Owners Association

www.everything914.com

www.914driver.com (914-6 Club USA)

[markb]

This brought back some memories!

I got my first 914 in '99, and met John Larson (Cap'n Krusty), who introduced me to Mike Z, who helped me get signed up on Rennlist. Then came 914Club, then ClubNARP, then 914World. I've met a lot of great people, learned a lot about 914's, owned more of them than I could name right now (buy 3 junkers, build 1 good car, sell off the excess parts, repeat.....). I haven't had a 914 in years, and without the local shop support, I doubt I'll own another one, but I'm on here daily. This is a great group of folks.

[ClayPerrine]

who introduced me to Mike Z

I am soooo sorry about that. It had to be a traumatic experience........


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[markb]

who introduced me to Mike Z

I am soooo sorry about that. It had to be a traumatic experience........


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It was. Scarred me for life. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

My first time driving a 914 was his Ravenna. Trying to keep up with his white Rocket. It was....an adventure....to say the least.