OK, so I don't have much 1970s and 1980s 914 content to contribute but I really enjoyed seeing the pictures from the turbo thread.

Post your pictures and stories for those of us that did not live through it.

Let's keep it drama and name calling free.

John

How are we expected to keep anything from the 70' and 80's drama free? Eric Shea wore dolphin shorts and puka shells. Leaf Garret had hair. Peter Frampton had hair. Journey had hair. Most people had hair and didn't need glasses. Formica has been replaced with carbon fiber.

1979

You had good hair !!!

Drama that happened back then is encouraged.

New drama is plentiful enough on here.

Who raced their 914 on Mulholland back in the day?

John

I raced a 70 Z28 from stop light to stop light through the city and beat em, he was pissed, Trans Am crusing in Everett Colby ave, VW junk shouting at me, as I passed him every time next light, VW junk see ya,,,, I forgot I had a 2.4S

1982

Another 1982 same car!

1975 my dad bought this 9146 for $3250

I have some 70's 911 and some 80's 914 I will scan. I will post them tomorrow.

My car in 1982....

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Daytona 1981

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Ft Myers 1988

Me doing my best Tom Selleck...

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I have a set of those wheels in my shed. I noticed Paul had some to, was this the wheel to have back when?

John

At the rest stop at the top of Raton Pass on the CO/NM border, 11 OCT 1973. I was on the way from MN to Luke AFB AZ. As you can see, the weather was pretty crappy . . . .

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A bunch more here:

http://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/VintagePhotos.htm

My daily driver throughout the '80s and my first 914 - around 1984

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Sorry I was into Corvettes & Marriage in the 80's - gave them both Up

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But then I came to my Senses & started Buying Porsches

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So the 90's don't matter

Nice pictures guy's

I'm the shirtless little guy sitting on the pillow.

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Couple of Dad on AX course.

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My Dad sold this car in the late 70's....

This one's from the day my parents saw the car for the first time 30 years after selling it because there was no place for my sister to ride along with us.

Mom and Dad taking first ride.

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Dad and me about to take a ride.

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We bought the car back together about a week later!

1977 Smokey Mountain Nat'l Park

The red 914 (still) belongs to Pat Garvey

The yellow 914 (still) belongs to my wife and I (pictured)

1978 PCA autocross in Cincinnati held in the parking lot of a vocational school. Both my wife Linda and I won our respective classes.

same venue and date as previously posted

great stuff...

Why is your arm around Pat's Wife ???

On the road in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in 1978......

...and more, deep in the mountains

Click to view attachmentHere's my 1970, 914 circa 1985. I loved this car...The picture do not do it justice. It had been repainted befor I bought it from green to a dark metal flake british racing green. I remember the shine on that car was just beautiful. I had the car for less than a year, when driving home from work in a light drizzle, a woman in a POS Hornet ran a stop sign right in front of me....nothing at at could be done to avoid missing her. Basically the 914 folded in on itself in the front, totalled. The woman drove away with a dented hub cap.....

Finished restoration in 1987
67 911s

LA 1986!

Hollywood 1980

Man I have had some nice cars!! and some cute girl friends !

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Post mortem...1986
Subsequently the wreck was included in the insurance settlement, the very next day a guy who was building a 914 just down the road, knocks on the door and wants to buy the wreck for $1000. I sold it to him. The guy proceeds to build a beautiful 914 ground up. He sloped the front fenders by cutting a slit down the top of the fenders where the blinkers are, removed the front fender hump and turn signals and hammered them down to meet up with the slope of the hood, welded back together, etc. Looked alittle like a Chalon in the front. Anyway he has hours and hours into his car, paints it himself in his garage, and finishes in record time... the car is a work of art, NASA couldn't do it better.
On it's maiden voyage he wraps the car around a tree...2, 914's destroyed in less than 3 months, within a mile of each other....1986.

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circa '77 or '78..
Only pic that I know that I have. And the addiction started. RIP Skip

Dig them Caps. Coco mats and woodgrain dash with kick ass stereo for the day.

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I have always been told British racing green was bad luck for 914s, maybe there was something to that.

in Snowmass Colorado, circa 1978

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Circa 1986 Northern New Jersey.
Bought this after I wrecked my 914.
My 1970 240Z not even close to stock....
By far the quickest, and fastest car I have ever owned. I can remeber the force of accelleration of this car...being pushed back into the seat, just crazy fast.
This thing would run circles around Vettes, IROC Z28's and 911's of the day.
I was only a kid, 20yrs old. Lucky to still be alive.
PS... apologies for not being porsche related

Virginia Tidal Basin, 1979.......

At this point I would have to agree, If I knew that then, I would have had it repainted a different color. I still miss that car....

1981.....westbound on I-40 in North Carolina

The lead (red) 914 belongs to Pat Garvey, my 1970/4 is in the middle, and the 914/6 of Nancy and Jon Lowe is bringing up the rear.........

Boy you were one smooth cat back in day, was that in the heights ?
That street kinda looks familiar.

Jeff, is that your car?

Lol.. yes What do you know about the Hieghts?

Dan Gurney/Western (Jack McAfee 'clone') wheels were very popular on both 914s and 912s back in the '70's. My first ('71) 914 had them too. I still have 4-lug and 5-lug sets

I spent my childhood in that neighborhood.

Really ! Me 2.. We still have a house on Sichel St. Lincoln High class of 1979.Wow long time.