OK, the long wait is over! My car left on Saturday, May 13th for Kahiko Customs & Restoration- Scotty B's (Burnett's) shop in Virginia where he will begin a complete rebuild.

I know Scotty will thoroughly document the build on a thread on this site for all of us to enjoy . I am really looking forward to the build - not so much the spending of money

So stay tuned and see what turns up. The car is not scheduled to arrive in VA until 5/22 or thereabouts.

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Working with Scotty is a win-win situation. Your patronage allows him to continue to stay in business and do great work, and you get a top quality product Cant wait!

West to East

Thats a nice start right there

Oh good, about time.

I'm planning a sexy photoshoot w/ this car when it arrives @ Scotty's shop.

Stay tuned.

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The car looks great...sometimes i'ts good to release and let others carry the torch. I'm sure you will be pleased with the end result!

Ummm, no rear poses like that in front of Doc, he's still doing his Proctology rounds. If'n ya know what I mean

When you look at scotty's work you'll know why.

Adam,

I thought there was a restraining order in place? You aren't allowed within 300 yards of Kahiko Customs.

Michael, great to see it getting started, can't wait to see you drive it to an event.
Hope everything goes good and you get I back soon.

To be honest thought not sure why you haven't been driving it, it already looks better than both of mine

Have fun with it, don't think about the money.....you can't think about cost when it's a project or hobbie it will suck the fun out, and it's all about the fun factor.

Jeff

I own camo.

Hi Jeff:
Yeah it looks good from 15' but to drive it would have been full fuel delivery system, complete brake job and new lines, repair all oil leaks, new tires, etc. I just thought better to wait and have it done correctly rather than drive it and have it burst into flames for some 41 year old worn part reason.

I feel like it will be at Scotty's for close to 2 years. The real answer will come when the body is media blasted to see the extent of work necessary. I am hoping that the media blasting will take place in June.

Is it going back to original color?

Yeah....No. The original color is gold and I don't like it. At this point it will be light ivory. Sorry to all of the CW people out there but I am the one that has to look at it everyday and drive it.

There is a reason gold was the least seen, sold color in this model year. The gold on this car was bad, really bad, and not in a good bad way.

What the hell is George Michaels doing to that C-GT ????

HA! Princess Adam wishes he had a vagina between his legs......rather than in place of his mouth

I think we already established who my bitch was in Hershey, PA.

I was checking for originality of the orange peel....

I'm jealous and happy for you. Light ivory is awesome (I'm biased though...)

Scotty's painting my 71 Ivory too. It's at his shop now. Good to know my car will be in good company!

My car is scheduled to arrive this morning at Scotty's! I can't wait to hear it made the trip in one piece....

Yippee! My car traveled across the country and made it safely to Scotty's:

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Safe at Scotty's? Boy, have you got a lot to learn.

I am trusting that Scotty will take care of my baby. Of course you could always be my secret agent and report back to me when you are visiting your six. Scotty said he would cover it with a soft flannel blanket every night

Dude - He turned mine into swiss cheese.

It's your car, you can do whatever you want. I'm sure the Scottmeister will make it better than ever!

FWIW, as good as a 914 looks in white, those unique 70's colors (IMHO) are hard to beat. I'm not a CW, but I couldn't imagine having a non-standard metallic color 914-6 and painting black, or white.

day 1 : battery has a dead cell and the fuel pump is locked up.


result - battery is junk, I will try to free up the pump tomorrow. Engine did hit and run for a brief second almost immediatly with a shot of carb cleaner though

I feel your pain, my red car is an original gold car....I just can't do gold.

Damn, is that black beauty sitting next to the cleanout for the septic

Shit Happens Forrest

Wow! I am amazed you got it to fire. Let me know if that fuel pump unlocks when you beat it with a BFH. It ran great when I drove it back on 2/6/10. No smoke either.

I finally have someone, R_Towle, who understands my dilemma. Not that I am going to reconsider my decision re the original color, gold. That color should have never been on that car and that is likely why it was color changed when it was just 1 year old. Thanks for the support R_Towle. If this was a car I was going to restore and sell it might be a different story. I actually expect to drive this when it is done and have no plans to sell it. (of course if someone offered me $200K......I might listen for a minute )

As far as the light ivory, putting color on that car is a ways off so anything could happen. I like, in no particular order, silver, adriatic blue, light ivory and irish green. So pretty strong chance it will be one of those colors.

My first six was signal orange and the second was irish green. Likely not going to go with either of those colors since I have had them before.

For me, I would do gold. You won't park next to yourself at a 914 event. But I'm strange like that.

Lot's of time and cash. You deserve to smile every time you open the garage door. Gold won't do that for you. Just don't paint it red or it will get lost among my heard.

This is not a dilemma, IMHO. The car is getting a proper respray and changed to a more desirable Porsche period color. If the car was originally 936 Silver Metallic and you wanted to change it to some burnt orange Toyota color chosen randomly from a Dupont sample book at the paint supply store it would be different.

Don't get me wrong, I was just spewing forth my .02.

It's you car and your money, you have to be happy when you go out to the garage. Especially at 3am the first night you bring it home, and you go out just to make sure it's really there!

Good color and rather rare

IMHO the other key to this story is that Michael does not have the ORIGINAL engine for the car sio whether he paints it gold or white it still won't be 100% authentic. And what he is doing is easily reversible should someone in the future decide to go completely stock. This will be a fun build and a badass sleeper when done

What to check on your new car ???



How about the fuel lines ???

It lives.....if only on 5 cylinders and 2 year old gas...........but it lives

Well the gas is at least 2 years old; the car had been sitting and stored when I bought it for about 1 year, maybe more. Looking at that fuel line you can see why I decided not to drive it and to rebuild it first. My luck the line would crack, the gas would run out and catch the car on fire and I would be really sad.

So it is running -nice. Always good to have a base-line before you start stripping it.

Yeah light ivory and adriatic blue are the front runners.

My six conversion when I got it was in its original Light Ivory. White is not a colour I would have ordered by I have to say I fell in love with the way it looks on a narrow body 914 with 5 lug Fuchs. With all of the silver and black accents it has a very elegant look to it.

Adriatic Blue and Irish Green are my two favourites though. I went green when I flared mine as I think the white ends up hiding a lot of the lines of a GT bodied car.

Whatever you choose it's going to be fantastic when Crankypants gets done with it!

MDG - Thanks I too think light ivory is sweet with the stock finished fuchs. I have a matched set of 5 deep sixes that will go to Weidman for refinishing when the time is right. But I also want a set of the gas burners in stock finish for the car too.

Light ivory or adriatic blue, I am sure it is going to look beautiful when Scotty is done with it. Yesterday he tried to take my car for a joy ride but my front calipers were dragging to badly to allow that. That is a shame because it would have been cool for him to drive it before he destroyed errr took it apart

HEY Watch it pal

That's never stopped him before. Besides, he has a giant Hot Wheels track set up behind his shop for cars that can't move under their own power.

He just uses a pulley to get them to the top.

It's pretty cool actually.

Ya always hear about all these cars going TO Scotty's shop but ya never hear of any coming back out

I promise this one will be returning to CA one of these years....I am excepting this to take 1.5 to 2 years.

I am trying to be realistic here because Scotty is very busy with lots of 914's and I do not have a money tree in my back yard despite what my relatives seem to think.

Scotty's a 914 hoarder.