Thanks everyone for all your help, wisdom, and guidance in making this a reality. No more posts asking about good purchases and "is this rust bad?" I purchased my first 914 yesterday from Massachusetts. Thanks to Chris from Tangerine racing for connecting me with the seller/PO. Trailer'd it home to MD where it spend the next several years bringing me joy. The PO is a super nice guy that has owned it for the last 22 years. It was originally a 73 Bahia Red with a 1.7. The original motor was gone, but a 2.0, from a 73, enhanced to a 2056 with carb cam was installed. Not a concourse, but fun to look at and even more fun to drive.

Way to Go! That looks like a clean and straight car and will be super fun with the 2056! Congratulations!!!

Not sure what it is about Bugs & 914s, but damn they go well together.

Woohoo!!! Great looking car.

Alright! Your persistence paid off. Hope you can enjoy driving it soon.
There's another member on here that's been looking for one too. Wonder if he got lucky?

Great looking car!

And yes, the 914 is an absolute blast to drive...one of the best Porsches, period. All these years later, they still hold up. They were remarkably refined for their time in terms of ride comfort and utility. They're also Porsche's lightest (post-356) production road car chassis—with a wheelbase as long as a 991's, tiny overhangs, and an engine mounted in the ideal location.

Very nice find! You picked the fastest color
Nice interior too with console and radio. Sway bars for complete 2 liter conversion?

Looks like my setup, Bahia 73' 1.7 now 2056 (Djet) in desperate need of a paint though...

Enjoy the new toy

Nice piece of metal you bought! And the color is great.

What is the first thing you are going to do in your new acquisition? Other tha driving it of course!

Nice asphalt drawings btw.

Andres.

@Montreal914

So the front sway bar is in place. The rear came with the car, but not on. The rear shocks have the ball ends to put it on. The PO told me I would need to weld in nuts for the bushings to bolt it in place. I thought those threads would already be there from the factory??

@hippiekiller

I think I want to have a single key for everything first. Interior locks are separate from exterior locks. Also, fix the ignition switch as it has a tendency to not want to engage the started. PO had replaced the switch once and it is starting to fail again.

Congratulations!

Nice Score!

Congrats!

Where in Maryland are you? I'm in Silver Spring, near Glenmont.

Congrats. Chris is good people, and I'm glad he could help you on this. You know what's more important than it being Concourse material? It's yours! Enjoy, and go out and drive it. They are SO much fun!

Best of luck, very nice.

Congratz!

BTW - It looks pretty nice, so don't sell yourself short on the "not concours" bit! The PCA Concours are mainly hands-on judged cleaning/detailing contests, & many other independent local concours & car shows are anything from hands-off "how it looks" to public favorite choice awards.

So if the urge hits you, don't hesitate to clean 'er up & give 'er a shine/wax, & go have fun! The Ooooohs & Ahhhs, public drooling, countless questions about your beautiful unique car (not many 914s around at most shows nowadays), chatting with other car folks & past 914 owners, etc. will be well worth your time & effort - even if you don't win a ribbon or trophy!

There's still some good weather car show & concours time in MD & surrounds - go find one & stick it on the grounds!
Who knows, you might even take home ...

Just go have fun!

Cars-n-Coffees are fun too. I get a regular email from August group there in MD who does a monthly weather permitting C-&-C show.

Oh - & drive it lots too!

PS - For future reference for you & others on here ... Given the mileage charge with UHaul for rental trucks & the fact that you have to step up to a big box truck like you got, you may be better off going to Enterprise Commercial/Truck Rentals (not the Enterprise car rentals) & get a 1/2 or 3/4 ton pick-up from them (usually mostly only 3/4) to rent for towing, then get the flat-bed car transporter from UHaul (trailers have no mileage charge). Enterprise has a decent bit of miles included per day & per week (break-over is at 5 days or with any needed extra miles) - IIRC it's 150mi/day & 1000mi/wk, but check. We've been renting their F250s since 2014 3-5x a year to tow our restored 1960 Avion T20 (like an Airstream) to vintage trailer rallies/shows & it works out well, but will be getting a Cayenne S so we can do more of them.

Cheers!
Tom
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Nice ! Hope you will enjoy it to the max. Interesting combi interior colors. Is it a mix between tan and black parts ? Or custom made ?

Fight the urge to do to much to the car, for now. Drive it for a while. She looks to be a peach. Fresh Bilstiens, new rubber bushings thru out, tie rod ends if needed.
Most folks ignore brake hoses. These things stop on a dime with stock brakes if maintained properly.

A teener is a great little car and has been sorely ignored for far to long.

happy for you.

@Tom T

Thanks for the info. I did check into renting a truck from enterprise. It was looking to be about the same if not a little more to go that route. The uhaul combo put me at 409 after tax and fees. The gas was about $100 and was about 470 miles. I checked out a few shippers like montway and even put a listing on uShip. Everyone was coming in at ~$600 so I saved a little, but not much. I'm not sure I could have waited another day to take her home too

@FrankVW
They are a combo of brown and black seats. When the PO acquired the car the black seats were missing the bottom cushion on the passenger. So he just swapped the inserts and kept it. He also said he remembered seeing a 911 with this combo years back.

Wow! Nice score.

I just finished re-keying my locks. It was easy following the how-to in the technical article under 914 Info. Since you only need to re-key your door handles and trunk to match the interiors, it shouldn't be too bad since those are fairly easy to get off and pull the cylinders on. Start with one of the doors and keep track of the tumbler numbers. Once you know the sequence of tumblers for one lock, you can re-key the rest without the trial and error. The trunk lock will probably have two #5 valet tumblers which can go back in any location, which gives you some flexibility in freeing up tumblers for use elsewhere. Contact member 'Tweet' for tumblers and springs (or just have him re-key them for you). He really bent over backwards to set me up with what I needed.

From what I've read, it is best to bite the bullet and buy an OEM ignition switch. That's my plan anyway after reading about so many failures from after market switches.

Enjoy that ride!

Congrats! Like many who have read (and commented) on your posts, I am happy to see you that you did well. I in no way expect a response with a specific figure, but was this within the realm of the $10K cap? If so, and everything checked out in terms of corrosion, you did extremely well.

For those interested in the MD & surrounding areas:

St. Michaels Cars & Coffee - Sat. August 13, 9-11AM
Weather Permitting

Hosted by: Classic Motor Museum St Michaels

Where: 102 E. Marengo Street, St. Michaels Maryland.

When: Every Saturday - 9 to 11 am.

Sponsored by: August Classic

Reminder: Join us at the Classic Motor Museum for our weekly Cars and Coffee meetup in downtown St. Michaels.

No registration or cost - if you enjoy cars, you're invited. See you there.

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It's a little too far of a drive for me!

PS - However, it's a short quick drive from DE for my brother in his Challenger Hellcat!


Tom
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Hey Nick,

If that's a single carb, then you may want to put dual Webers or PMOs on your to do/wish list, in order to get the most out of that 2056.

I'm sure that Chris can accommodate!

EDIT: Never mind, I relooked at the engine pic, & it is dual carb. I was looking at your wording on the cam I guess!



PS - That should be good for 110 - 125 HP, & Chris can still help you tweak it to max over time!


Tom
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Nice job. You can forget now the orange lemon. Chris did a fine job too, and is a great dude, as is Ed.

Good luck with it. I drove mine to work and back today, 120 miles (not my normal commute) and hit 105 on the Ocean Pkwy coulda gone more with the 2056.

Enjoy it, the best driving season is just gettin' started...

Nice!

Now that's a proper first 914, not the rusted out sub $5K disasters you had been looking at. Well done, and I'm quite jealous!

Absolutely gorgeous. What a great ride.

What "rent"? Cars a runner and MA to MD is a chip shot. Shame not to fly and drive! Driving is the point right?

@ThreeV8s - I ended up paying less than my 10k budget even after the $500 trailering

@87m491 - I wanted to drive it home. I couldn't barrow the tags from the PO and MD does not give out temp tags unless you title the car first. That would have required two trips. I can't wait that long

WooHoo! Congratulations on a great purchase with a terrific engine. Good luck and enjoy. Love the bug too.

This is what you need on the body to install the rear sway bar. They get welded under the rear trunk floor and the reinforcement in the trunk. New U shaped bracket seems to be available at Pelican.

http://www.maddogsmotorsports.org/rear-suspension.html

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/SuperC..._pg6.htm#item21

Enjoy the drive