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> Spotted In Germany, Anyone Know This Car?
Osnabruck914
post May 24 2023, 11:47 AM
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My wife snapped this pic in a roundabout as we were entering Friedrichshaven about two weeks ago. Apparently there was a car show in the area that day, as there were quite a lot of interesting cars on the road. This was the only 914 we saw on the road in three weeks in Germany. Anyone's here or know this car?

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post May 27 2023, 02:35 AM
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@KELTY360

i don't want to flog the subject.
but since i love warts and pure orange front lenses and your car is an interesting fiction - and i am very interested professionally in german design and i might add japanese design you have forced me to say something about the germans and.......
yourselves, that is americans (who i confess i dearly love as a country, i mean f#4k england!!>) its not all minimalism as some kind of purism?

i give you this.
i consider it the greatest piece of machinery ever designed.
if i could hand out a design award for the single best thing ever made, i would give it to this (but it would be a close contest with the pepper grinder).
(i have given up on the F117 as @Van B has privately scolded me i should never meet my heroes as i will only be very disappointed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ).

a flying gattlin gun that can only be shot down with extreme difficulty. it can take a million bullets and keep flying.
a strange mix of 19th century american military technology and captured german WW2 technology.

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looks a bit like this?

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and whats that.
desperate german functional thinking with their backs against the wall.
but it makes so much sense.

why even screw around with fixing an engine.
just rip it off and put a new one on when they only last 8 hours anyway.
and ever since, just about every civilian jet plane has an engine in a nacelle that looks just like this beauty.

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so the warts to me are just this kind of german thinking.
really straight up.
but they can't help themselves, its got to kind of look like what it is.
and then its just stuck on!

the old warthog is the most german thing the yanks have ever made.
and what a beauty.
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Osnabruck914   Spotted In Germany   May 24 2023, 11:47 AM
technicalninja   I though the round side marker light was a USA onl...   May 24 2023, 12:29 PM
SirAndy   I though the round side marker light was a USA on...   May 24 2023, 12:38 PM
Steve   I though the round side marker light was a USA o...   May 24 2023, 01:51 PM
wonkipop   I though the round side marker light was a USA on...   May 25 2023, 03:33 AM
Osnabruck914   It's strange how tastes differ. I find the ...   May 24 2023, 04:43 PM
wonkipop   It's strange how tastes differ. I find the ...   May 25 2023, 03:31 AM
Literati914   Italian turn signals, the plot thickens! BTW, ...   May 24 2023, 05:22 PM
Gustl   due to the small front license plate and the ...   May 24 2023, 09:47 PM
dt4   I spotted this one at the Pau historic grandprix i...   May 25 2023, 11:20 AM
KELTY360   I spotted this one at the Pau historic grandprix ...   May 25 2023, 03:38 PM
Osnabruck914   That front fender looks so nice and pure without...   May 25 2023, 05:28 PM
KELTY360   That front fender looks so nice and pure withou...   May 25 2023, 08:09 PM
wonkipop   That front fender looks so nice and pure withou...   May 26 2023, 03:47 PM
KELTY360   If that were true, why were cars in the country ...   May 26 2023, 11:56 PM
wonkipop   'deleted' when not needed or 'added...   May 27 2023, 01:51 AM
wonkipop   as a afterthought to above, it may have been inten...   May 26 2023, 03:56 PM
wonkipop   ps @KELTY360 i see you like your pure orange le...   May 27 2023, 02:06 AM
wonkipop   @KELTY360 i don't want to flog the subject. ...   May 27 2023, 02:35 AM
Van B   Fun fact wonki, engineers had to redesign the gun ...   May 27 2023, 08:25 AM
wonkipop   Fun fact wonki, engineers had to redesign the gun...   May 28 2023, 12:22 AM
KELTY360   Fun fact wonki, engineers had to redesign the gu...   May 28 2023, 06:48 AM


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