Looking for video on 914s I came across this vintage video I'm guessing from the late 70's link ---> 914 wreck

Turn down your volume weird music. Anyway from 1:45 - 2:20 shows a badly wrecked 914. Looks to be a 74.

That's bad. Don't let the wife see that.....

...don't think that was survivable. Stating the obvious, of course.

Tony

This guy lucked out....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl-P6Mfb49o

Anybody we know?

I remember when that happened. I think it was someone who was on this web site a long time ago. Anybody remember this?

Ouch.

Even when you're the good driver, something terrible can happen.

Original thread on this:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...208199&st=0

I hope the DUI driver got a major boning on this and still has the size 7 poopshoot.

No....not the same car.

I met the guy in that video at the G and R who got rear ended.

Was taking her to court and I hope he got something out of it. He was really lucky to survive at all.

Really nice guy.

Glad to hear he made it OK. Just curious if he lost a kidney, or was paralyzed as mentioned.... tough to think anybody would make it though a wreck like that in a 914 without something residual....

Ouch for sure, looks a lot worse than my LE crash back in '90.

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Ouch. That's painful to see a LE in that condition.

What'd you do?

I'm yet to drive mine, but I'm assuming you have to drive 914s like you do a motorcycle: assume you are invisible.

Assume you are a target. I had a driver in heavy traffic look me right in the eye and realize he could take my spot in the lane by sheer force, which he then did.

You have to watch the driver and not the car....

When driving a 914... be paranoid.

Assume everyone is actively trying to crash into you. Because they are. It has been proven to me over and over.

Keep your head on a swivel. Most people are not "drivers", they are commuters. They are fiddling with the radio, talking on the phone, or TEXTING.

I always drive like I am invisible.


Oh.. and did I say... Be Paranoid.


One other thing. It makes you realize why motorcyclists ride the way they do. I had a conversation with a couple of bikers at a gas station, and they told me that they sometimes don't even see other bikes or very small cars like ours.