 What's the farthest you have driven your 914? |
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| ChrisFoley |
 Apr 10 2011, 09:24 AM
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I am Tangerine Racing  Group: Members Posts: 7,937 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Bolton, CT Member No.: 209 Region Association: None 
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QUOTE(okieflyr @ Apr 7 2011, 08:09 PM)  Last fall ... to the tail of the dragon and back. Going to MUSR 2010 was my longest trip in a 914. 2000 miles in a long weekend. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
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| abnrdo |
May 17 2011, 10:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 24-September 04 From: Panama City, FL Member No.: 2,820 Region Association: South East States |
The length of my driveway.
The battery was dead when I bought the car. It needs way too much work on the engine to even try to start it. I dont trust the fuel lines. Project in progress! -Jim |
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| RiqueMar |
May 17 2011, 11:27 AM
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Enrique Allen Mar Group: Members Posts: 2,169 Joined: 28-August 08 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 9,478 Region Association: Southern California
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RRC 2010 1,700 miles, my first time driving a 914. 766 miles from San Diego to Moab, then Moab to San Diego through the Grand Canyon, 855 miles of nothing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif).... well, except for the speeding ticket.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/busted_cop.gif)
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| SLITS |
May 17 2011, 12:18 PM
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None  |
2K several times ... had an MPS take a shit in Moab with the /4.
Same for the /6, except the ill fated run to Wickenburg (nobody likes Wickenburg). |
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| Mike Fitton |
May 17 2011, 02:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 609 Joined: 13-May 11 From: Chicago Area Member No.: 13,069 Region Association: Upper MidWest
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 Manhatten Beach, CA to Chicago, IL in the month of January. North route via Salt Lake City, UT and Lincoln, NE. Left CA on Wednesday afternoon and was pulling in my driveway Friday afternoon. Did get a speeding ticket in Wyoming, it took the Trooper 20 min. to catch me. |
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| VRROOMM1 |
May 17 2011, 04:00 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 15-July 08 From: mt. dora fl Member No.: 9,302 Region Association: South East States |
seal beach ca. to sacramento ca. and back one way on a tank of gas at 75-90mph and one tank back
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| dlestep |
May 18 2011, 11:59 AM
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I am smilin'... Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 15-January 08 From: Sunrise Florida Member No.: 8,573 Region Association: South East States |
...drove my '73 914 from Renton, Washington to Brandon, Florida...and traveled back and forth to Indiana from Florida over the next year. 1073 miles each way, best time was 12 hours and 15 mins...
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| jzdu |
May 18 2011, 12:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 7-July 08 From: Medford, Or Member No.: 9,268 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Drove mine a total of 15 miles since 11/2007. Hopefully that will all change this week. It's almost done!!
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| RichardFDR |
May 18 2011, 01:09 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 18-May 11 From: London Member No.: 13,085 Region Association: England |
In my 1973 914 2.0 (black) I've done three big trips since 2004 from London and am feeling rather nostalgic about it since the car is now scrap.
Big trip number 1: Stop 1 Karlsruhe Germany Stop 2 Salzburg (camp site) Stop 3 Melk Stop 4 Outside Prague (camp site) Stop 5 Prague Stop 6 Berlin (repairs needed!) Stop 7 Munsterland (camp site) Stop 8 Amsterdam Stop 9 Brussels Then home Big trip number 2: Stop 1 Karlsruhe, Germany (bonnet cable snapped) Stop 2 Füssen, Germany (camp site) Stop 3 Soglio, Switzerland Stop 4 Lake Iseo, Italy (camp site) Stop 5 Verona, Italy (trapped bonnet cable in front trunk again!) Stop 6 Arezzo, Italy Stop 7 Sienna, Italy Stop 8 Island of Elba, Italy Stop 9 Viareggio, Italy (camp site) Stop 10 Lake Maggiore, Italy Stop 11 Vals, Switzerland Stop 12 Lake Constance, Germany (camp site) Stop 13 Rhine Valley (?) Germany Then home Big trip number 3: Stop 1 Essen Germany Stop 2 Nr Essen Germany (camp site) Stop 3 Ribeauville, France Stop 4 Le Pèlerin, France Stop 5 Meursault, France (camp site) Then home |
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| toolguy |
Oct 12 2011, 11:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,270 Joined: 2-April 11 From: San Diego / El Cajon Member No.: 12,889 Region Association: Southern California
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1978 6000 miles coast to coast in 2 weeks. .74 2 liter 914 . San Diego to the Aspen parade then to Virgina Beach. . . . . . a week later Va back home to San Diego. . . the return trip was nonstop took 42 hours driving by myself . . . that's when I was young and not too smart at times. .
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| rnellums |
Oct 12 2011, 11:53 PM
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Professional Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 1,646 Joined: 26-November 09 From: Littleton, CO Member No.: 11,072 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
2500 miles earlier this summer from Denver to Indiana via Wyoming and sd. Of course it did have a catastrophic engine failure at 2000 miles and I had to pull the engine in Mitchell, but after that she made it the rest Of the way!
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| 70_914 |
Oct 13 2011, 10:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 395 Joined: 4-December 09 From: Roy, WA Member No.: 11,096 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I drove my car around the block once I got it towed home from the junkyard. Took out the engine and transmission, sold most the parts, scrapped the car. Now that engine is getting built to install into my "new" 914.
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| JawjaPorsche |
Oct 13 2011, 11:25 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,463 Joined: 23-July 11 From: Clayton, Georgia Member No.: 13,351 Region Association: South East States |
Two years after I got my 73 Teener, I drove from Atlanta, Georgia to LA to SF and back in 1975. The Teener vapor locked in Arizona with the temp over 100. The state patrol came by and said when it finally starts, turn your heater on! Thank goodness I had my top down! I also drove it from Atlanta to Palm Springs and back in 1980. I still have it.
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| rgalla9146 |
Oct 14 2011, 09:33 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,570 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Paramus NJ Member No.: 5,176 Region Association: None
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QUOTE(JawjaPorsche @ Oct 13 2011, 09:25 AM) Two years after I got my 73 Teener, I drove from Atlanta, Georgia to LA to SF and back in 1975. The Teener vapor locked in Arizona with the temp over 100. The state patrol came by and said when it finally starts, turn your heater on! Thank goodness I had my top down! I also drove it from Atlanta to Palm Springs and back in 1980. I still have it. Drove my first good 914 to the Porsche Parade in Lake of the Ozarks. Don't ask me what year that was. Probably 1000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) miles each way from New Jersey The car was a 1970 1.7 opened up to "2.0" Light Ivory with brown 2 seat interior Sold the car for home down payment. I wonder where it is today ? One year later got my first real 6. Still have it. |
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| SCV |
Oct 15 2011, 08:26 AM
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Aircooled Enthusiast Group: Members Posts: 92 Joined: 1-August 09 From: Austin, Texas Member No.: 10,630 Region Association: None |
The farthest trip I've made to date was ~320 miles round trip, and have made many ~200 mile round trips, but I'm not comfortable taking it out of state until I rebuild or replace the engine. Compression is still good at ~120 per cylinder (1-2 psi variation), valve lash is stable between 3,000 mile adjustments, and it's not making any ugly noises, but at this point, I'd take my Super with ~12,000 on it's rebuilt long block from a well-known, trustworthy source for a round trip of 1000+ miles. The transmission in the 914 could use a rebuild too, FWIW.
Once the 914's engine and transmission are a known quantity, I'd take it over a Cayman any day for a road trip. I'm not a fan of new, plastic cars, even though they have more creature comforts. |
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| r_towle |
Oct 28 2011, 01:10 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,591 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States
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between breakdowns or not?
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| poorsche914 |
Oct 28 2011, 03:17 PM
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T4 Supercharged Group: Members Posts: 3,091 Joined: 28-May 09 From: Smoky Mountains Member No.: 10,419 Region Association: South East States |
1700+ miles on my recent trip to Eureka Springs for MUSR12.
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| wndsrfr |
Oct 28 2011, 06:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,430 Joined: 30-April 09 From: Rescue, Virginia Member No.: 10,318 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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Saw ad for car in World classifieds. Called Drew Rickert & made the deal. 5am flight from Newport News to Indianapolis. Drew picked me up at airport at noon. Liked car. Gave him money, got title. 777 miles -- got home at 1am. Epic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)
P.S. Drove to VIR 2 weeks later for Zone 2 PCA DE. Blew it up on 3rd day on back straight. Flames in rear view mirror. Also Epic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) |
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| smj |
Oct 29 2011, 06:45 PM
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"Dude, Steve from Berkeley." Group: Members Posts: 591 Joined: 28-August 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 4,691 Region Association: Northern California
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Well since I missed this thread on it's several previous revivals... All told, ~875 miles on a one-way trip over two days.
Bought my '74 914-4 in September 2005 from a gent in Mill Creek, Washington. Flew in on a Saturday and he picked me up, looked over the car, completed the deal and I started driving back to Berkeley on I-5 late in the day. Made it to Roseburg, OR (~375 miles) before I grabbed a room for the night. Next day I pulled into a rest stop in Weed, California (I know, right?) where the car refused to restart. I now believe this was an intermittent problem with the ignition switch, because after waiting several hours for AAA it just started on it's own with no fuss. I did make it back that day, ~500 miles total. |
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| JMKnight |
Oct 30 2011, 12:05 PM
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Aces & Eights Group: Members Posts: 135 Joined: 30-December 09 From: Northern Indiana Member No.: 11,188 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
QUOTE(96740 @ Mar 17 2008, 07:44 PM) How far have you driven your 914 on a trip? Would you rather have your 914 on a long journey, or a new Cayman let's say. Does the fact that you know your old car better than a new "Out of the box" Porsche make the choice any better? Sometimes I would rather have an old, easy to work on car on a very long drive than a computer riddled techno plactic Porsche for the real down and dirty. Allthough our 07 Cayman has been one of the best cars I have ever owned, 80k and going. I thought I would post the question anyway. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Please trade me a boxter type s for my 914-6! |
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