Cleaning up the nailed Forums, This might get folks upset, but.... Options

[1970 Neun vierzehn]

....I thought the purpose of the "nailed" threads was to distill OEM information and provide photo documentation of OEM cars and their specific details. The lengthy discussion of wheels and tires is certainly warranted, but it shouldn't be in the "nailed" Forum. Anyone looking for specific tire and wheel specs is going to be discouraged by trying to sort through all that discussion and all those quotes. The OEM wheel and tire selection appropriate to a 914/4 or /6 should be limited to an excellent, exemplary photo of an OEM wheel (no polishing, no plating, etc.) and a listing of factory approved and equipped tire sizes. A good photo of an OEM size tire would be nice, but not necessary. All else in that thread belongs in a discussion thread on this Forum site.

I cite the wheel and tire thread as the most flagrant abuse of the original intent of the nailed threads. The other threads also contain pictures of unoriginal areas for too many 914s. Are the cars presented clean?, many times "yes", but are hardly appropriate to be used to depict an original, representative example of a particular model. Each "nailed thread" should contain the very best example that we currently have (i.e. Garvey's '72/4 would be presented as the classic, as delivered model of its type). Other model years and trim levels should be represented by only the best examples that we can provide.

It was my belief that the "nailed thread" section was to present a (mostly) pictoral documentation of original equipment, color and presentation. Lets endeavor to make it a "go-to" site for those seeking to know how the 914 was "in its day".

If I've pissed anybody off, I'm sorry but we need to get back to basic info here

Paul