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> 914 Sins... I need to get it off my chest...., Have You Sinned Too??? I'll Feel Much Better with Company....
Brian Mifsud
post Jul 13 2007, 09:22 AM
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A thread on backdating a '75/'76 to earlier 2.0 Exhaust has pushed me over the edge and I must confess.....

A year and 1/2 ago I moved from Bay Area to San Diego. In the 3 months of getting the house ready to sell, and getting the 914 into a roller, overwhelming anxiety got more and more intense... I wasn't gonna meet the "deadline". I started throwing things into the back of the pickup. Yes, I got into one of those rash-decision-making furies and started chucking good stuff...

I lost faith, and decided in an instance to simply get the '76 reassembled, smogged and sold, so .......I......I......I......


I chucked the complete and perfectly good '74 2.0 exhaust system that another board member GAVE me!!!...[i] (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pinch.gif) ....

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) I feel really stupid now... I even watched as the loader at the dumpstation scooped up the exhaust and all the other crap I'd emptied from the pickup and dropped it into the "sort" pile.. one step away from the landfill.


OOOOOOOOOHHHH I feel so dirty....(where is the "rape shower" emoticon?) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) ...


I feel aweful... it's all coming back so vividly.....

Be kind....

So, here's an opportunity to sit in a circle and admit your sins. This is the first and most difficult step.
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post Jul 13 2007, 03:07 PM
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post Jul 13 2007, 03:15 PM
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Got married in '73, within a month bought a '71, within a week got a bad case of buyer's remorse ( I was making $4.50/hr, my wife was making $4.00/hr ), and took it back & bought a 25" color TV!!!!!!

Just bought my second ('74 2.0 ) this January!!! YEAH ME!!!!!!!
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post Jul 13 2007, 03:35 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Jul 13 2007, 12:15 PM) *

i used perfectly good *original* /6 parts to repair a window at my house.

i'm looking at it as i type this ...
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We have GOT to see a picture of this!!!!!!!!
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post Jul 13 2007, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE(Betty @ Jul 13 2007, 01:35 PM) *

QUOTE(SirAndy @ Jul 13 2007, 12:15 PM) *

i used perfectly good *original* /6 parts to repair a window at my house.

i'm looking at it as i type this ...
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Andy


We have GOT to see a picture of this!!!!!!!!


old thread with pics can be found here:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=65406

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post Jul 13 2007, 04:24 PM
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I sold my '75...

...suffered every time I saw one for 6 years after that...

...and bought a '74 when I could take it no more...

...without haggling over the price! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/alfred.gif)










(but I still feel I got a good price)
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post Jul 13 2007, 04:36 PM
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A friend and I bought the only 914 to win a championship on the dirt at Santa Maria Speedway in California. We stripped the car. He took the engine for a race buggy and I took everything else.
Now, when I look back on it I cant believe we cut up the body and roll cage and had it hauled away for scrap. That was one of the strongest roll cages I've ever seen. I really regret cutting it up and letting it go like that.
The only good thing I can say is that a lot of the parts made it onto my roadracing car. But that car was unique as far as 914's go and very fast.
I have sinned. I will say five hail 914's and two fuch's.
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post Jul 13 2007, 05:42 PM
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post Jul 13 2007, 05:42 PM
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I let mine rot in the garage for 20 years (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hanged.gif)
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post Jul 13 2007, 06:12 PM
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I painted teak... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

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post Jul 13 2007, 06:21 PM
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I may have commtted one of the worst sins, BUT I am currently working on redemption. Three years ago I bought a wrecked original 6. This car went down an embankment and crunched the front end, rolled 1x then the back end hit a tree. The rear end was bent down. The targa bar was folded down on either side of the rear window, BUT the glass was not broke! I stole the car with its 3.0 engine and dual 46 webers for $4,000. In one week it was a barely rolling shell. I took everything that would make it a 6 out. I even cut out (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) the engine mount, wire harness, dash, stubs, brakes, door plate, tank, tins. Less than a week later it was at a wrecking yard. I has sold most of the parts to fund my 914/6 3.0 track car. Please forgive me. I will try to find the pics I took to prove my case that this car was really gone.
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post Jul 13 2007, 06:31 PM
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I welded the fender to cowl seams on a car. Sorry.
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post Jul 13 2007, 08:37 PM
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Not really 914, but air cooled.

In '64, when I was 17, my aunt had be do some yardwork & take her new Corvair to have it gassed up & checked over.

Asked the attendant (remeber those?) to chaeck the radiator. He couldn't find it.

Which one of us was dumber?
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post Jul 13 2007, 08:44 PM
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QUOTE(Pat Garvey @ Jul 13 2007, 07:37 PM) *

Not really 914, but air cooled.

In '64, when I was 17, my aunt had be do some yardwork & take her new Corvair to have it gassed up & checked over.

Asked the attendant (remeber those?) to chaeck the radiator. He couldn't find it.

Which one of us was dumber?



(IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) I believe the answer is in the pudding


QUOTE(Pat Garvey @ Jul 13 2007, 07:37 PM) *

Not really 914, but air cooled.

In '64, when I was 17, my aunt had be do some yard work & take her new Corvair to have it gassed up & checked over.

Asked the attendant (remember those?) to check the radiator. He couldn't find it.

Which one of us was dumber?
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:02 PM
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Welding fender cowl seams is not a sin brother, it's preventive maintenance.
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:03 PM
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The last car i cut up was definitely restorable.
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:45 PM
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I too have sinned.
After taking the hoods, engine, tranny, and rims off a parts car...I hastily had it hauled to the scrap yard before family came to visit. As if it was an eyesore or something. I didn't even bother to take the VIN number for our club records. A nameless car has gone to a nameless grave. Forgive me oh Porsche gods. Oh the shame.
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post Jul 13 2007, 10:50 PM
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post Jul 13 2007, 11:18 PM
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post Jul 14 2007, 06:32 AM
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Another one from my younger days is I used to go junkyard shopping & steal the badges off of 911s' & 914s' for decoration of the garge & tool boxes. At one point I had some 20 different 914 badges, six, gold, black, aluminum, 1.8, 2.0... all gone & thrown out when I "grew up" & was off to college in the summer of 81 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) . So anyone who went junkyard shopping in MD back in the early 80s' & saw teeners missing their rear badges it was probably my fault. I had to sleep on this just to remember it this morning!


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post Jul 14 2007, 07:30 AM
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I don't want to sound like a Pharisee, but I haven't heard one person yet confess to putting a Subaru or Chevy in their car. Sin is still sin, even if it is popular....
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