First of the Texas Twins, First Build Options

[Puebloswatcop]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) So I finally got the first of the two Texas Twins down from Colorado down here to Texas and cant wait to get started on the build. I first obtained this 914 as a parts car back in 2010. After getting it home, I realized it was actually in better shape than the one I already owned. The first one is a 1973, 2.0. This one was a 1974 1.8 in Ravenna Green. Unfortunately I never was able to make allot of time to play with the car, so it sat in my overcrowded garage in Colorado.

Since I retired and moved to Texas, the wife said I had better find something to do and stay out from under her feet, so last week I made the treck to Colorado and brought the first of 3 914s back. (the 3rd really is a parts chassis).

The car was on a rolling frame so was easy to get onto the trailer, problem is it had to be lowered enough to fit inside a four foot cover to be added onto the trailer, so first we had to raise it high enough to get it off the rolling frame.



Then it had to be carefully lowered to where the car was sitting on 4 X 4 blocks so it would be lower than 4 feet high and secured to the trailer. It came in at around 3'8" when done.



Then the shipping crate was built over and around the car. The trip was long and went well till I got about 10 miles from home and disaster struck.



A catastrphic loss of one tire on the trailer. Thanks to a good samaritan who flagged me down, because I never heard or felt a thing. Also a testament to Top Hat Trailer Company, the trailer was slightly damaged but did not roll, in fact it rode so smooth that I never new the tire had gone away. Of course...no spare for the trailer, so I limped the last 10 miles at 15 miles per hour.



So 16 hours of driving and now one of my babies is here in Texas and the work shall begin.

[Puebloswatcop]

Well another of lifes setbacks have made working on this car nearly impossible, had to have shoulder replacement surgery, so absolutely zero use of the right arm. But in an attempt to finishe the bumper, I tried to tackle it with just my left hand. having no left hand coordination, it was quite apparent that i was doing more damage than good.

So I decided to have a look at fixing one of my main wiring harnesses. So I broke out one I obtained from a 1973, that was relatively un-molested. I say relatively, because I don't believe there is such a thing as a totally unmolested harness, unless a person was the original owner, and took it to Posche, to have things fixed.

[Puebloswatcop]

I decided to stretch the harness out on the floor, and devide it into three segments, Tunnel back, Under Dash (Guage cluster, radio, etc), and everything foward of the front firewall.