Okay - as the title says - see below - but first ......
... So if I had been a rich kid in the 70's, this would've been my heartthrob 914-6 to order - 8410 (L98P) Blue Metallic with Beige Leather Interior & Mahle Gas Burners - although I might have waited until the 1972 MY & ordered it as a 99 customer color, in order to get the tweaked transmission (oh for a 73 914-6 with sideshifter!), bigger 2.2 or 2.4 motor, fully functional passenger seat, side vented dash, etc.


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.... I've never seen one, but anyone know if such a 914-6 from any year was produced in that color combo above?



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However, in my web cruisin
.... I came across this beauty of a Metallic Blue 914-6 with a black interior (don't recall where now), which looks like either an original & well preserved example for "The Few, the Rare..." - or perhaps a well restored example which may still qualify for that too.


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... Anyone know it or recognize it - or better yet, own it???
...... If so, how about we get some pix of it inside & out plus story behind it posted in The Few, the Rare..."

We're waiting!!!!

that's 914.0.43.1788

was on eBay in 2005

had 76k miles on the clock

seems to be a very nice car

Back in the day - late-ish '70's San Diego - one of my SD-PCA fellow AX competitors had a metallic blue /6. Don't recall the interior color or if the paint was factory, but I believe it was.

I do recall it had a nonstandard exhaust of some description but I don't remember the wheels. Sorry - in those days, when I was at an event, it was to concentrate on _my_ stuff, which was hard enough...

This is close - a 1972 914-6 # 225 - Just swap the wheels

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914.043.1788 is my car.

Skip

... and the interior

my friend Toni has a very similar car, but black interior ...

So Skip - do you mean that the VIN is wrong for the 914-6 in my first post?

... or if that Metallic Blue/Black 914-6 I posted in the first post is yours then -
A. It's a beauty!

B. How about posting some pix of & background on yours - similar to what Steve G. did on his Sahara Beige 73 2.0 in "The Few, the rare...." nailed topic that Pat Garvey started here in O&H before his "retirement" - giving the 914-6 restorers & lovers out there some drool food - pleeeez!

I take it you have Illinois plates on it now?

Cheers!
Tom
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Whomever that one belongs to - it needs a duster & a cover! ... such a crime!

Just tell 'em to send it to me & I'll take proper care of it!
Thanx TC!!! !

Rich - judging from "Salted Roads PA" & "70's-ish San Diego" - it sounds like you did the opposite journey that I did.

I was born in Pittsburgh (Bridgeville/Upper St. Clair Twp. near where Dr. Evil is moving), then we moved to San Diego at 10/11 in 63 when my Dad got a new job with Whittaker down there (they moved to Indy in 71 & I stayed to finish college), & have been in OC since finishing under grad. in LA at that cardinal & gold school in 74.

What town are you in now?

Love that Metallic Blue & Mahles on a 914-6!!!!
Thanx Wolfgang!

Not to sidetrack the thread _too_ much -- was born in central Illinois, (was) moved to East County San Diego around high-school age. Lived there about 20 years, eventually moving to Lost Angeles for work, and Lake Tahoe area (same). In 2003 we moved to SEPA - northwest of Philadelphia, right around the Lansdale interchange of the Northeast Extension.

It's my thread Rich - so you go right ahead & sidetrack & hijack all you damn well please ole buddy!

I'm always glad to find fellow Teeners from back in the 70's - especially when paths have/will cross - since I've had my one & only since Dec. 1975 & spent most of that year looking for one, & still went to SD regularly Back then.

Which HS & what year grad were you? ... ditto college? ... any sports?

I was Uni `70 (66-70); then off to LA 70-74 (BS Arch. USC), then to OC - Huntington Beach 74-85 & Orange since 85; with an MBA stint 84-86 (UCLA MBA 86), & I played JV/Frosh Football 66-68, Soccer HS 68 - USC 74, Rugby USC 70 - 1st Div Club (HB Unicorn 74-75, Irvine Coast 75-88), & Old Boyz up to `96.

So our respective schools may have faced off on some CIF playoff or another if you were there in HS 66-70, or any of the other stuff!?

here's more from Toni's six

Thanx Wolfgang!
- is that an aftermarket cloth material in the seat insets?

Nice custom license plate!
... I didn't realize they were available in Euro-land with special numbers/letters.

that's factory original - but not for the 914
he had to renew the seats and decided for this one
looks great, but of course it's not original for the 914-6


well - it's possible, but you have to meet some rules
it's not as "flexible" as in the states

Looking at the interior, it appears to have a fixed passenger seat with the later retractable seat belts. I have never seen that combo in a '72 4 or 6. Is there an explanation?
Don

The seat belt anchors where in place and it was an easy update. Cars manufactured after 1 Jan 1972 had the retractable belts.

I understand that. But combined with a fixed passenger seat? The car is described as a '72/6 but the interior has the seat of a '70/'71. Look at the picture.
Don