Don't know if this was ever posted before:
http://barnfinds.com/star-power-carl-sagan...70-porsche-914/

Back in the 1970's there were a couple of the auto magazines who did look back articles on the 914, & they published that a lot of Architects, Engineers, Scientists, etc. (I'm in the former of those) drove 914s & made up a majority of buyers. I don't recall offhand now if it was R&T, MT or another magazine.

Yes - we smart guys & gals - knew that the 914 was the superior handling machine, over the tail-dragger sibling, which has only been tamed over decades & $10,000s of electronics!

I also considered then late model 60's 911s & 912s too, but felt the 914 was the better platform, & offered at a better price.

So IMHO - anyone who chooses to drive a 914 is a smart guy or gal!

There were/are other "theories" of what the 911, 930, Vette, Ferraris, Maz's, etc. car guys were lacking, that drove them to offset that "shortcoming" with one of those aforementioned cars!


Tom
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Only about 10 times ...

I was watching a documentary about using carbon nanotubes and their applications and one of the guys was driving around in a 914... not sure how smart he was, but he seemed smarter than me.

Boy... Andy sure makes a smart guy seem dumb. jk

Naaa, just trying to get people to use the search ...

Prolly wouldn't get many hits for "smart guys" on 914World.

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that people around here don't know how to use the search function!