Hello all,
just wanted to introduce myself. I've been lurking for a while and I've decided to make myself known. My name is Christoph, I'm originally from Germany, but I've lived in the CA bay area for about 8 years.
The car is a 74 2.0. Rebuilt suspension (kyb shocks, weltmeister progressive springs), american racing wheels, rebuilt engine (euro pistons, webcam, homemade cold air intake, MSD), new-ish seats, homemade center console with oil pressure, voltage and clock, 6 blaupunkt speakers, amp and cd player. Needs paint real bad (if figured fix the internals first). And I'm hoping I got most of the rust
Future plans include: actually driving the car, maybe autocross, paint... that sort of thing

Here are some pictures of the car in Germany (I shipped it there when I moved back home, then came back to bay area) on the first drive after I rebuilt it.


So hello all

Welcome, First post and already a picture

Christoph, welcome!

You have a nice looking car! Good to have another German native around here. (We were kind of getting tired of our old one. )

Again... welcome!

-Rusty

Welkomen, Guten tag (s) Now Andy will have someone to talk to in his native tongue. I am sure he will like that. Let see some more pictures of your car.

Heres another pic

Minor adjustment

Welcome

Hello, welcome to the club.

Welcome to the club. We're always glad to see lurkers turn into posters!

So... where are you from in Deutschland? The area in the pictures looks pretty flat like it might be up north near The Netherlands, but I'm only guessing. There's a lot of Germany that I haven't seen. (Sounds like a good reason to go again!)

Hehe, well it's flat there, in the fields. It was in the spring and those are all wheat, barley etc. fields. It's a pretty mountainous region altogether. That town is called Bueren, but the bigger city would be Paderborn.
Where have you been in Germany?

Christoph, Welkomen guten abens
I think I've seen your name over at Renn or the Bird board ?! lurking is OK , but now you can hang out with all of these mittlemotor celebraties Have fun here...
mit grussen , Herr Schneider

Maltese,
yep I post on Rennlist, and I like the forums. However, the 914 forum was .. "too much of a party" for me to handle

Welcome......


i remember you from the rennlist forum, it's been a while....I was in Stutgartt last year and I saw a white 914 near the zoo, any chance it was you??

i work in Fremont, we'll have to do lunch sometime and BS about our 914's

Thats a site that we see all too often. Welcome to the club. You live in an area that seems to allow 914's to thrive. There are plenty of events to keep you occupied.

Welcome, stay away from the Euro SNOB, Alison.
CCLINLOL

Welcome to the club, Christoph.

Mueller,
lunch sounds good one of these days.
Probably wasn't me in Stuttgart. Did you by any chance, do a factory tour, or see the Porsche museum. When I was there, they had the Ferrys 914-8 out on the floor. Very nice.

Welcome aboard, Christoph!
It's great to have you!
You are in very good company with lots
of people with great knowledge!

Lisa

BTW Nice car!

Tourist places like the Rhine, Rottenburg aub Tauber, the area near Baden Baden and Hamburg. Our son studied German for a summer in Ulm and again a couple of years later in Lüneburg. We made it to Wolfsburg on our first visit to Europe by making a big loop from The Netherlands to get to our departure point in Düsseldorf. Otherwise our travels just have been places between wherever our son was going and The Netherlands. Being of Dutch ancestory we always end up there when we are in Europe.

There's a couple of different Paderborns in Germany - are you near the one in North Westphalia? The closest Beuren I can find is Beuran an der Aach which is way south in Baden-Wüttemberg. I love the fact that MSN Maps lets you find stuff in Europe, but you often need to know more about it to be sure you've got the right place.

Paderborn Northrhine Westphalia it is.
The town is actually Bueren ... ue as in ü .. So Büren. I need my german keyboard :-p

hey hey, careful what you wish for!



hi Christoph, herzlich willkommen!

Du bist #4 in der deutschen Bay-Area 914 Stammtischrunde!
Birgit, Theo, meine Wenigkeit und Du ...

Andy

Hi Andy,
ich denke in dieser Gegend gibt es sicherlich noch einige 914 Freunde. Rosten bei dem Klima eher wenig
Leider ist meiner noch in Deutschland. Aber wir arbeiten dran

Andy,
I just read your website. I looked at your very car in San Rafael sometime in 2001. I got mine in June that year. Wow, has it been three years already?

i'm glad you didn't buy it ...


that is scary,
Andy

there's any number of people who can paint a 914 real bad, we see them all the time :-) ...

seriously - welcome ! yellow Porsches may be faster (my current 914 is yellow) but i think white is still my favorite color.

Hello and welcome to the club.

Nice to see other European here. I am not sure if I undestood, but are you now in Germany or in USA. I suppose your 914 is here in Europe.

Welcome Christoph!

Timo,
yeah the car is in Europe, and I'm in the US. A temporary situation, then the car comes back here. Unforunately I missed the california summer to drive it. Then again, do we really have a winter?

Artechnik,
well the car will stay the color. I think black and white match real well.

Nice to meet you. Don't worry about driving the car when it gets here. It's almost always driving weather in California.

Welcome! I think I remember reading about your restoration work..was it at the rennlist site?

Yeah I took a bunch of pictures, and wrote it out to a website. Except then the website got delted. Loads of info an pictures lost. I discussed it with the good folks on rennlist thoroughly. Maybe next engine rebuilt

Hey Christof, welcome to 914world.com!
And since you are from Germany: ik wil mijn fiets terug

grusse,

Jeroen

Welcome to the club!

Damn, I'll jus' keep repeating to myself, mine can be rust free too, mine can be rust free too, mine can be rust free too......





Welcome.

Das kannst Du aber laut sagen

Wie wäre es mit einem deutschen 914 Bier-Abend?
"Suppenküche" in SF hat gutes Essen und deutsches Bier vom Faß ...

Andy

Suppenkueche. Ich glaube da war ich mal, so vor 6 Jahren. Koennte man durchaus mal machen. Mit dem Bier wird es warscheinlich ein bischen schwierig. Bin leider erst 20.

oops

hmmm, kann mich nicht daran erinnern das die jemals jemandem nach dem ausweis gefragt haben ...

Andy

So oops in german is oops?

yeah, you just pronounce it different ...

Andy

Einfach mal probieren.

Oops .. because if you used ups, you'd have interenational copyright trouble

I'm surprised Andy didn't spell it oopsch

i'm not "schwäbisch" ...

Andy