My teenage daughter was riding in the 914 a couple weeks ago, and I was showing her the radio. She had never seen one with buttons and a knob to change the stations, and I explained to her that this was how car radios were when I was a kid.

She asked me: "Does it get modern music?"

What does your daughter consider to be "modern?"

Nice

I'm pretty sure I don't "get" modern music

At least you didn't have to explain 8-track tapes.

No 8-track, but I did have to show her how to use the cassette deck!
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Did you use the opportunity to tell her how radio signals work...that the same radio stations work on old and new radios (as long as they aren't Sirius/XM or something).

Heck, if you have an input in the back (probably what the tape deck is plugged into) you could hook up an ipod/mp3 player etc

Actually, a lot of stations now have added digital-only signals. My MINI's radio picks those up, but not spectacularly well. Most stations also have an analog signal.

--DD

Did you explain to her what AM radio was, or used to be?

....Children are so *profound" & logical

Yeah that really stinks... HD Radio is great but the signal strength sucks

The reception for that old Panasonic radio is actually WAY better than I get with the $2,000 sound system in my 996. The speakers suck in the 914, but I do get tons of radio stations that tune in just fine.

As a side note, she was also confused as to how to lower the window.

When I showed her how to roll down the window, she said "Oh, I think I've seen those before" (referring to the window crank).

My son has an insane 4 door VW Golf R, six speeds, all the bells and whistles, very exotic street car.

He drove my 914 the other day and said "now THIS is a sports car!!!"

He loved it……………….. His car cost ten times more.

Actually I think her first reply is quite appropriate. I'm within striking distance of 60 yrs of age and as an orthopedic surgeon I have become accustomed to using various examples to explain things to patients. Like, if you walk with your toes pointing outward, it's like Charlie Chaplin. Or if you have a crouched gait with bent knees, like Groucho Marx.

And I assumed everyone knows these characters in pop culture. But young people don't know so many of the things I grew up with that these examples no longer apply. I think I assume because classic rocks plays all the songs I grew up with and because I'm still driving a 914 and have never grown up (in a lot of ways), then everybody must know the same things I know.

So a teenager seeing this prehistoric thing filling a hole in your dash with buttons and knobs who pondered what the heck might come out of it...I think she's spot on!!!

Paul