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> How far would you drive your car?, Lets see how good member's cars really are.
What shape is your car in?
The good the bad and the donors.
Drivable form coast to coast [ 106 ] ** [44.73%]
Good for trips but AAA dependant [ 34 ] ** [14.35%]
Won't go past 500 miles with confidence [ 21 ] ** [8.86%]
Won't leave town but still driven [ 9 ] ** [3.80%]
Its dependable because I'm nuts [ 19 ] ** [8.02%]
Have a constant feeling of driving peranoia [ 9 ] ** [3.80%]
Can't drive it yet, its not perfect! [ 10 ] ** [4.22%]
Its all about the tinkering and not the driving [ 3 ] ** [1.27%]
Prognosis, jackstandaholic! [ 22 ] ** [9.28%]
Streets are for GIRLIES, I race BIOTCH!! [ 4 ] ** [1.69%]
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fat73
post Nov 15 2006, 04:04 PM
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4,997 miles from Tampa to Las Vegas, and back for SEMA 2006.

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post Nov 15 2006, 04:51 PM
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I've driven mine without incident for six months daily without issue.

My old engine dropped a valve though, so this one is monitored but seems to work well.
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post Nov 15 2006, 08:36 PM
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OK, not quite the same, but in '74 I drove a funky 1300 cc 1966 VW hippie van from Boston to Guatamala and got back to Penna. (incl. to PCanada) before it gave out --and that was only because in the dark I couldn't tell how fast it was burning/blowing oil. Would have made it in the daylight. So I'll take my almost perfect '73 anywhere. -Chris H.
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post Nov 15 2006, 09:40 PM
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mine is i guess pretty reliable, but i was prepared to drive out to the RRC had i gotten my car back by then.

Turns out, after i got my car back from the motor build that my brakes and tierods were shot, haha.
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post Nov 16 2006, 02:30 PM
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I bet my teener would be reliable from coast to coast, but I would say it just depends on the weather. I have a concern that my motor would overheat if it was driven for too long with consistent "high" revs (3600 - 4000 rpm seems to send the temp up sorta quickly) Other than that though I would say my car would be reliable for a decent amount of time.
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post Nov 16 2006, 03:30 PM
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Sounds good fellas and the pole is getting more accurate with more votes 50% and still strong (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
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post Nov 19 2006, 05:27 AM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Well now speak of the devil. Really late last night I'm coming home from a drive to Mantica. When I'm crusing along all of a sudden a big POP!! Guess my little baby popped a fuel line or something. I have to go pick it up off the side of the freeway tomorrow morning.
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P.S. - If anyone local driving along 580 coming down towards San Jose and happen to see a white stranded 914 it's mine!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Nov 19 2006, 07:43 PM
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QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 13 2006, 12:03 PM) *

Y'all are a bunch of wussies....

Joe Yoder (with Steve Milo as co-pilot) is the KING of long distance 914 driving. Dallas to San Deigo. San Deigo to Seattle. Seattle to Chicago. Chicago to Dallas.

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Hmmm... I think any long distance trip in a 914 is well within the "luxo" category. I did an epic perimeter trip of the USA, nearly entirely on back roads, in my VW '73 Thing, solo... without a top or a map. 17,000 or so miles in total from Cape Cod to Seattle to San Diego to Fort Lauderdale and back to Cape Cod.

Would do it again in a heartbeat. Doing it in a 914 would be super comfy and zippy by comparison - but I would have missed all of those dirt roads across the dakotas and montana and the rockies....

-greg-
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post Nov 19 2006, 07:52 PM
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QUOTE(gfulcher @ Nov 19 2006, 05:43 PM) *

QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 13 2006, 12:03 PM) *

Y'all are a bunch of wussies....

Joe Yoder (with Steve Milo as co-pilot) is the KING of long distance 914 driving. Dallas to San Deigo. San Deigo to Seattle. Seattle to Chicago. Chicago to Dallas.

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Hmmm... I think any long distance trip in a 914 is well within the "luxo" category. I did an epic perimeter trip of the USA, nearly entirely on back roads, in my VW '73 Thing, solo... without a top or a map. 17,000 or so miles in total from Cape Cod to Seattle to San Diego to Fort Lauderdale and back to Cape Cod.

Would do it again in a heartbeat. Doing it in a 914 would be super comfy and zippy by comparison - but I would have missed all of those dirt roads across the dakotas and montana and the rockies....

-greg-

Just curious...but how long did that take, what was your route, how long ago was it, and was it winter/summer/spring/fall?

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post Nov 20 2006, 03:55 PM
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my car could go coast to coast - but not me ! Other than an airplane there isn't anything I would go coast to coast in..
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post Nov 20 2006, 04:38 PM
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QUOTE(gfulcher @ Nov 19 2006, 08:43 PM) *

QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Nov 13 2006, 12:03 PM) *

Y'all are a bunch of wussies....

Joe Yoder (with Steve Milo as co-pilot) is the KING of long distance 914 driving. Dallas to San Deigo. San Deigo to Seattle. Seattle to Chicago. Chicago to Dallas.

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Hmmm... I think any long distance trip in a 914 is well within the "luxo" category. I did an epic perimeter trip of the USA, nearly entirely on back roads, in my VW '73 Thing, solo... without a top or a map. 17,000 or so miles in total from Cape Cod to Seattle to San Diego to Fort Lauderdale and back to Cape Cod.

Would do it again in a heartbeat. Doing it in a 914 would be super comfy and zippy by comparison - but I would have missed all of those dirt roads across the dakotas and montana and the rockies....

-greg-



Sounded like an awsome time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
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post Feb 21 2010, 12:08 PM
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Coast to coast in the sixer. I think everything has been repaired and no more scheduled track time for that car. The track car on the other hand, from the garage to the end of the driveway with the current four cylinder and no brakes, and no seats and no lights and no ..........
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post Feb 21 2010, 01:13 PM
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The 914/6 is good for Coast to Coast even though is it a street driven track car. There is not much left on the car to go wrong.

I voted "dependable cause I'm nuts" ... cause I MUST be nuts. It's amazing my family hasn't disowned me yet.

I have proven over the years that with enough tools, money and time, that no trip is too long.

It has gotten so bad that when one of our vehicles starts making bad sounds, my son automatically reaches for the fire extinquisher and my wife shouts out ... "it's time for another adventure".

Since our family's daily drivers (4 of them) average 17 years old with 265,000 miles ... something is goning to wear out every once in a while.

The last two weeks hasn't been too bad ... the son's Audi burst into flames while parked and the wife's Suburban lost the fuel pump AND the radiator on a trip from Seattle to Los Angeles. Just another "Adventure"!

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post Feb 21 2010, 01:21 PM
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These cars are just not comfortable enough for me
to drive over 200 miles in!!......maybe it's the seats (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

.....now Boxster or 911 different story (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
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post Feb 21 2010, 05:08 PM
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I bought my 1.8 sight unseen in Augusta GA. Drove it all the way back to Santa Monica. Only issue I had was vapor lock one time. Car was all original. Got 36 MPG on trip home.

I left with a trunk of spare parts that I never used.

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post Feb 22 2010, 03:46 AM
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My current car is not drivable but the car I am buying soon will be drivable but I don't know for how far. Can't wait to get home so I can drive it too. Only 2 in a half months left on my deployment. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)
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post Feb 22 2010, 11:30 AM
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the biggest problem with my car now is the squishie part behind the wheel, ME.

I think the engine and brakes and suspension are solid enough to make it anywhere with care.
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post Feb 22 2010, 11:48 AM
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Due to an illness of a relative, I have made three round trips between Southern California and Las Vegas in the past month. That's 303 miles each way door-to-door. It also includes two 4,500 ft mountain passes and some desolate hiway. But my little teener hasn't had any problems in getting me where I need to go.

However, as a SoCal driver, I removed my HE's (since they were falling apart and full of goo from old oil leaks). This made some of the driving in the low 30's (including more than one snow flurry) a little cooler than I'm used to. I ended up with so many layers of clothes that I felt like Ralph's little brother in "A Christmas Story" where he couldn't move his arms... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol3.gif)

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post Feb 22 2010, 03:26 PM
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Man,
I don't know. I tried an ill-fated 500 mile trip from Bakersfield to Phoenix in 1998 after I had bought my 914 and owned it for a couple years but had only driven it a very few miles, and it still had d-jet on it. The trip really sucked. I made it through the Tehachapis doing OK, but then my car started to go to crap pretty bad. I arrived in Phoenix over the course of 12+ hours, my 914 was running hot as hell when it was running at all, and eventually wouldn't go over 45 MPH. Not fun in the middle of the desert after midnight with a dying car.
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post Feb 23 2010, 08:38 AM
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San Francisco to Little Rock and back twice. ~3900 mi.

Little Rock to...

- Columbia, SC ~1400 mi
- Tampa, Fla ~1900 mi
- Lexington, Ohio ~1500 mi

and back.

More miles on twisty Arkansas roads though than I can count... daily driver. Gotta get to the northeast some time. Maybe Summit Point! Ear plugs required.

Cheers
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