I concluded from these threads that you are not a classic car enthusiast, you simply want a car to get you attention and potentially profit from it - I would recommend something with a prancing horse or a raging bull on their logos as these cars fit both of those criteria. For each their own, but I'll hang with my countless true car enthusiast friends who seek not to grow their egos, but seek enjoyment and personal satisfaction from their hobby.

Patdon me for being articulate.

Nice car. I am proud to see our cars at this event.....

KELTY360, so you have a problem with me being articulate. Too many big words?

Is he asking you for a patdown? I thought you only got those from the TSA?

You stated you never implied your car was in the concours. KELTY clearly has illustrated... you did. In the title. Of this thread.

Aggrandizement. There's a big word.

Yes, it was at the concours, which is a four day event that includes several events. You're welcome to look up the website to see the schedule which I posted daily on the Amelia Island thread.

look, if you guys are not interested then just stop commenting. If your sole purpose here is to gang up on me and try to make me look bad for other members it says a lot about who you are and your lack of character and integrity. And if that's the case then I'll just delete everything and stop posting pictures from the event. I've got tons of great shots of all the 914 in great detail. don't ruin it for everybody. Just grow up and stop being assholes.

Actually, I only posted one picture of me with my car.

And actually I have a lot more pictures of the 914-8 posted. I wouldn't call it an afterthought. and the reason I have so many pictures of the 914-8 posted, is because I think is the most significant 914 of all. I don't see how I didn't even be conceived I think of it as an afterthought with all the detailed photos I put of it.

and out of all the pictures I posted of the LE, there is only one, the very last picture with me in it. Is that something to be ashamed of to take a picture with the car? I don't see how you guys excuse me of having lack of humility. Because I took a picture with my car. Have you not ever taken a picture of you with your car? And wouldn't this be a proud moment to do so when our car is being honored this way? So I have no humility because I'm excited that the 914 is being represented here, and that my car was somehow a part of all this. I'm not entitled to take a picture with it there? That shows no humility? so everybody else who was at this thing taking pictures in front of their cars has no humility then. Is that what you're saying? Because I'm very confused as to how I'm being such a jerk here when I posted one page of pictures and everybody else has posted three pages of insults. The drama was not started by me.and it seems that most people here just insist on continuing with it acting pathetic.

I don't have a dog in this fight, I was trying to help explain why you were getting pushback. You aren't listening to what is being said. That's your right...enjoy your car. Over and out!

You could always cry to admin and have this thread deleted, or you could go hang out with a&p girl and talk about us trolls.

Alpha?

It was super cool meeting all of you guy's,The guy that surprised me the most was scotty
I picture him a big fat dude with no hair ...guy can be on the cover of vogue
And Tommy love the disco pants I still have a pair. And it was great meeting all the people that hate Brad Roberts ....LOve you guy's

Nice looking car...wow...

Easy guys, so the guy gets a little excited and is passionate about his car, that cannot be a bad thing in my book!

... As exciting as this is was, only bad can come of it.

Just to clarify:

Actually, I only posted one picture of me with my car.

And actually I did post a lot more pictures of the 914-8, so I wouldn't call it an afterthought. And the reason I have so many pictures of the 914-8 posted, is because I think is the most significant 914 of all. I don't see how I didn't even be conceived I think of it as an afterthought with all the detailed photos I put of it. That and I thought people would want to see a lot of detail in such a rare car that most of us have never seen in person.

I posted one picture with me with my car, not over and over as you say. Is that something to be ashamed of? I don't see how you guys accuse me of having lack of humility. I took a picture with my car. Have you not ever taken a picture of you with your car? And wouldn't this be a proud moment to do so when our car is being honored this way? So I have no humility because I'm excited that the 914 is being represented here, and that my car was somehow a part of all this. I'm not entitled to take a picture with it there? That shows no humility? So everybody else who was at this thing taking pictures in front of their cars has no humility then? I'm very confused as to how I'm being such a jerk here when I posted one page of pictures and everybody else has posted three pages of insults. The drama was not started by me and it seems that most people here just insist on continuing with it acting pathetic, created by little people who just want to hate. And though I have asked repeatedly for it to stop, they continue to do so which shows their true intentions. they are not interested in the car, and accuse me of not being a car enthusiast. I'm just posting pictures from the event and all they're doing is slamming me for doing so. Maybe some people like to see different detailed pictures and angles of the car. Which is what this thread was intended for.

I'm calling BS on that. IMHO, the only "bad" that can come of it is that the prices will go up. That was already happening--try finding a decent running 2.0L with very minimal rust for $3500 today! That's what I bought mine for...

What "good" things can happen? OK, how about more people actually appreciating the 914 for what it is? I personally think the whole "get out of here, that's just a VW" thing does get old after three or four decades, you know? How about more people like Mikey stepping up and making formerly NLA parts for these cars? Now that they're actually worth a little bit of money (wow, half as much as a new Camry!!) there's sort of almost enough money in making parts for some optimists to do so.

Sorry, but I disagree with "only bad can come of it."


Do I think this thread was a bit over the top? Yeah, I do. So I just scrolled past the last 3/4 of the photos--no problem! I also think that poking at him when he has shown that he may be a bit overly sensitive to some things is also over the top. (And that's not just pointed at you, Mike. Lots of "offenders" on that here.)


So yeah--Tommy should probably relax and not take this stuff personally. Then again, all the people telling him how wrong he is should also chill.

Speaking of which, I think I'll move along to the next thread.

--DD

... besides the funky cosmetics, can you name one thing that differentiates an LE from any other fully equipped '74 2.0L?

The price?

Just kidding. I actually own a fully-equipped '74 2.0L that was part of both the Amelia C&C and 2/3 of the events that Tommy organized. All I can say is that I had a blast throughout. It was great hanging out with the 914World crew, hearing their stories and experiences and seeing their cars.

Thanks to all present for making the experience one that I shall remember fondly. It was a great weekend for our weird little cars.

Oh yeah, besides the funky cosmetics, can you name one thing that differentiates an LE from any other fully equipped '74 2.0L?

After reading this whole thread I thought the LE was at the event on Sunday. When you scroll through page 11 on the Amelia thread, there's pictures of the LE mixed in with the 8 and the GT's so that makes it look like the car was there on Sunday too. It's a nice car but not worthy of entering in a Concour event.

We are were excited for you. Congratulations.

Give it a rest. Take a time out. Your vernacular in the thread has a condescending tone as if you are rubbing it our faces. We are happy for you. enough... really... be done.

We are all happy the 914 was highlighted. All the 914's at the concourse are high dollar cars that very few of us can afford. As exciting as this is was, only bad can come of it. Now speculators are going to drive prices higher and good cars will no longer be affordable. In a couple years a rust bucket will be $20k or so.

There will be some excitement within our membership as people dream about the nest egg in the garage.

I will help drive prices up by continuing to cut up good cars and stuff wacky high horse power engines into them. BTW, you will never see my car at the concourse... I don't care. I love these cars and I don't really want the prices to be run up by a bunch of asshats with dreams of gouging.

Tony, your car looks great! Thanks for all the great photos. I'm still on the fence with the matching pants...

It was super cool meeting all of you guy's,The guy that surprised me the most was scotty
I picture him a big fat dude with no hair ...guy can be on the cover of vogue
And Tommy love the disco pants I still have a pair. And it was great meeting all the people that hate Brad Roberts ....LOve you guy's

Yup, sorry I missed you (and many others on Saturday). I drove my car to C&C, then back to 57lincolnman's hotel to repair his CHT. Unfortunately it took me far longer than expected and he and I made it to the Pier pretty late. But getting it running right was worth it. I had a great time either way and it just gives me more incentive to come back next year or get out to other events to meet more of you guys and gals.

The 2015 20th Anniversary of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, arguably the better of the two most prestigious car shows in the world, did a great service to a car that has long been overdue. It celebrated and honored the Porsche 914 as its featured marque for the 20th Anniversary of the Concours, displaying the 914 in unprecedented form. So much so, that it did not include any other classic Porsche models in the Porsche section. All the green was reserved just for the 914. Only a handful of other Porsche models were present at the Concours, a few in the Rally section and a few production cars in an assortment of other marques. But the Concours would have no other cars occupy the Porsche field to deter attention from the 914. In fact, it left a large open green in front of the display, commanding attention and demanding the respect it deserves. Only the rarest of the rare in the 914 family were on display at the Sunday Concours, save one impeccably restored 914/6. A 916 (11 made), a slew of historically significant 914/6 GT race cars, and the infamous one and only 350 bhp prototype 914/8 that belonged to Herr Pierch himself.

On the Saturday Cars and Coffee at The Concours event, a handful of 914s graced the Concours green as well, one of which being the rarest of the 914 productions cars sold to the public - the LE Can Am. A 'Creamsicle' no less, the rarer by almost half of the remaining two American Limited Edition Can Am production cars (Creamsicle and Bumblebee).

From your first post:



Not to heep on, but when I read this it certainly sounded to me like you were saying your 914 was there on Sunday (still does).

"as well" implies the rarest 914's were there Saturday and Sunday i.e. the handful of rare 914's on display Sunday were there on Saturday as well.

Then to go on to say that the LE is one of the rarer 914's also implies it was there both days on the green.

Finally, to put a picture of the invitation adds to the impression.

Maybe it wasn't on purpose, but to dismiss it and blame the reader is

WOW. 914 lovers, this was unprecedented.
First off, I was extremely honored to have my Limited Edition 914 LE Can Am on display (the only one) at the greatest classic car show in the world, which honored, featured and displayed ONLY the 914 in the entire Porsche marquee lineup! NO classic Porsches OF ANY KIND were on display at Porsche except for ONLY a long row of historically significant 914s - and a lot of green in front of them to view them from. In fact, all of Porsche's green was reserved for just the 914. This unprecedented and VERY bold statement in world of Porsche commands and demands the long overdue respect that the 914 deserves.


For the 914, our time has come.
To our big brother the 911, we respectfully extend to you... our middle

I got about 400 really good pictures of 12 914s. Instead of rushing to post, I'd rather take a bit of time to go through and edit them for you guys to make them more memorable. In the meantime, here's the one that makes me the most proud.

Hey Tommy,

Congratz on showing your 'Cicle at Amelia
- & I don't care if it was the main event or one of the other fetes around town then - it gives our 914s the recognition they were due in 1969 & the `70's - to have the 914 featured there .... finally!

You & ALL of the others displaying there helped raise the profile of our "entry level Porsche" as Excellence termed the 912/914 market update in their latest issue.

As for the other "Parade Rainers" on here - so what if he got carried away with red pants, a bunch of pix of his car, some auto-prose (no different than the car mags' writers being too clever for their own good anymore) - he's proud of his Cremecicle & being there, & rightly so! So what!!??

You guys will flock to scads of pix of everyone else's projects with rust, jackstand & project pix ad naseum, endless threads of stuffing Subies & V8s, etc. into 914s, & who knows what else, but you crucify Tommy for posting a bunch of pix of his very nice 914 here!!??

Heck - usually everyone is asking for more pix!

Get over yourselves & let members express their pride in their wheels without all of the "Troll" BS. It just makes you & the site itself look bad & unwelcoming!

PS - for the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Redders (Cheech & Chong bit) out there who read stuff too fast (& I do myself sometimes), Tommy was pretty clear which 914s were at the Sunday Concours itself, as quoted below:

"Only the rarest of the rare in the 914 family were on display at the Sunday Concours, save one impeccably restored 914/6. A 916 (11 made), a slew of historically significant 914/6 GT race cars, and the infamous one and only 350 bhp prototype 914/8 that belonged to Herr Pierch himself."

PSS - Tommy, I hope you will get around to adding pix of the other 914s/916s/GTs/etc. which were there over the entire weekend, for those of us who could not go to it.

That's my 2 bits!
Tom
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