I got here as fast as I could. I came this way after the split too. I have been buying and selling since I got the 1st 914 in 1985. My Porsche history goes even further back though. My 1st 1967 911S in 1970 set the stage for too many different models of Porsche cars. The only one I have never owned is a 928.

Member 87 myself so I guess I've been here for a while

Like Dave, I too was a member of Porschelist>Rennlist>Pelican>914Club and finally here.

I actually just re-joined Rennlist last week, I think I stopped after John Dunkle (?) sold it off or whatever happened.

1st 914 in '94 I believe, had a few here and there. In '08 or so I sold my 914, the trailer and pretty much everything 914 or Porsche related I sold or gave away. Stopped visiting all lists/forums and one day in '15 I was offered a 914 at a good price and jumped at at. (I still was in contact with many members thru the years even without owning a 914 anymore)

Glad to have come back, really great group of people.

Been about 11 years for me. The Club before that. Drove my first 914 in about 1980 I believe, belonged to a buddy. Bought my first one in '85 or '86. Bought a beautiful Creamsicle in '90, was totaled less than 72 hours later. Used the insurance money and ended up buying two more. I now possess the titles to 7 of these money pits and have no clue how many more I have owned. Not nearly as active as I used to be but it has been only about a month since I purchased my last one.


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My profile says 2005, so some 13 years. Graduated from high school and was originally and still into rotaries, hence my handle 913b_sp, 13B streetport, still have that motor. Got tired of chasing after the elusive RX-3. My high school buddy said they have kits to install into a 914. The 914 was unique and had the convertible targa top, sure why not. Found a lien sale 74 off the Recycler classifieds in Compton, the owner was a musician. Ice T ? AAA it back home and worked on the conversion for nearly two decades, accompanied me through college and marriage, never finished. Started lurking around this new thing called the internet and the site was called pelican parts, read some thread about a site devoted to 914 called 914club, read there was a meet in Calabasas. Went their with my son and buddy and got some motivation back. Switched over to 914world during the buy out drama of the club. Until recently had a work relocation, realized the 74 never got finished and never will. Sold it instead of dragging it to yet another move. I moved three times and the 74 would come and go on the AAA chariot. I still have the 71 I purchased a few years back to keep the dream alive. I don't know why I just cant shake this disease that makes me come back to this place

Joined back in JAN '03. Bought the 914 new in May 1972; still have it 237K+ miles later:

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As my bride says, "It's not a car, it's a time machine!"

On and off the 914 Boards for almost 15 years. Got my first 914, my bothers's hand me down, back in 1987 (he got it in 1982 - a 70 1.7). Kept it till 2000 when I thought a 911 would be better. Then couldn't stay away and picked up a nice 76 2.0.. then stepped away.. and now I am caretaker to my dad's 914-6 (he was the original owner). PCA member since about 1990.. PCA track rat kid since the 1970's so I feel like I've been around 914's my whole life!

Bought a six in 1976. Family reqirements pushed me to a series of 911’s, until 2003 when I got the current six. The engine is out for a rebuild and we’ve spent the last 2 days cleaning underneath. Can’t wait for spring!

Dang, almost 15 yrs for me. I started on Pelican well before Club. At that time I was just getting used to the internet, and Club seemed like a Brad fan club so I hesitated to join...blinked about a week and the numbers exploded and the content was/has always been amazing.

Found 1st 914 in 96-97, needed cheep transpo and it was a 70 or 71 1.7L with the usual issues. $1600. Took it back to the base at CGAS SFO and proceeded to mess with it. Messing with it was one of the best parts. Sold it in 2000 when I got out of the Coast Guard and went back to San Diego for college. I figured Id have no time nor money and would get another sometime way in the future. Got hit while on my motorcycle (actually was a yearly occurrence in college), was not seriously damaged, bike needed $300-500, I got $3k and started looking for anther 914. Found one with a blown motor, 73 1.7L in Tracy, CA for like $2k and it was very clean otherwise. Have been screwing with them since.

I have met a vast majority of the members here from all over. This car has given me some great memories, friends, experiences, and skills. Since starting here I graduated college and went to med school, got married, graduated med school and got a MPH, went to residency, had a kid in 2013, picked up to foster daughters (one now in college, the other accepted to college to be a nurse and graduating HS in May) in 2015, got divorced in 2018, and had a few moves and life changes. My wedding was well attended by 914 people, one performed the ceremony (*not his fault on the outcome ), one was best man, and I used a borrowed 914 that I later bought and recently sold as our car for the honeymoon (again, not the cars fault on the outcome). When I see pics from back in the day, and how many of our friends are no longer with us, it really does give one pause. I hope to pick up my activity around this place in the near future once I get my life a little more sorted out. Things are all looking up, though 914 folks are the best!

Man, that was the short version....the whole version would take hours to write/read.

I have been a member since ? have a 74 that has everything done over the years .In the shop now but should be done soon. 2650 eng. tall gear trans. you name it and it has been done. bought the car in Santa Barbara off ebay I am probably one of the oldest members, 85 yrs. old

I got member no. 81 from a troll farm in Russia. I get my post counts up by having my bots ask the same car questions over and over. What’s a 914? Vodka?

Long enough to be the "young guy" to not so much

way too long ago

Been here since the start. Would have a lower member number but I had a AOL dial up connection took me a week for the sign up page to load.

I got into Club after I got my 914...then the split....and heeeere weeeee arrrrrrre

Since we are reminiscing...

Well, I guess technically I have been a member for over 10 years, since once back in 2006, when I was looking to buy a 914, and for some reason I joined up here. Imagine my shock when in 2016, I finally bought one, and found out I had been a member for 10 years. I guess I missed alot of the drama, but alot of the good times as well. Need to make up for some lost time over the next few years

I joined in 06 when I had my 914-6, which I shouldn't have sold. Now got re-involved with my current build.

I got my car 20 years ago in 1998 as a 2.0 autocross flat four (I was 15!). In 2000 my uncle and I converted it to a 2.7L flat six (with a very tired and leaky motor). While I started college the car sat at my uncles for a number of years. Half way through college I paid back my debts to my uncle for the upgrades and got the car back in my possession. At that time I joined 914club to try and work on my car, but I didn't have any money. In 2006 I almost sold it but luckily I kept it. I got a full time job out of college and started looking for a new motor. Got a 3.0 with webers in it and started a/x and track, man that was fun. Have now rebuilt it to a 3.2L... Still obsessed with it ...

One of my early cars was a Mazda Capella (RX2) Rotary - LOVED that car

Like some (many?) of you I've been around a while.

I got interested in these cars after looking at 944s. I had been working restoring old British armored cars from WWII. Which lead to Kublewagons. Which led to an interest in aircooled VWs, which lead to Porsches. When I found a Porsche that shared an engine with VWs and looked better then a Kharman Ghia, I knew I wanted one.

This year will be 15 years for me on Club/World.

I cannot believe how many 914s that I have purchased since coming on board and the ones tha I have sold. Rough count, over 100.
The 914 get togethers in California we’re always a blast to attend, and there were those in Washington, always a great time. Plus Joe and his Tequila wagon.
Craig at CAMP

And THAT is a spectacularly backwards route to 914 ownership.

Well done, sir.

This Aug is 10 years for me. I bought it in ‘93, a couple was selling 2 inherited Porsche’s to fund a startup. There was a petrol blue SC targa selling for $6k and an asphalt grey 914 for $1500. I listened to the hype, got scared that the 911 was going to cost too much to maintain, so I bought the 914. I swear I’ve spent sooo much more to date in this car than I would have the 911...LOL.

Although, I now have a 3.0 from an SC slowly being rebuilt to go in the 914... I suppose it’ll be the best of both worlds!

Reminiscing? 70s Porsche owners??

I was thinking at first, I haven't been here that long ... then I added it up. Ohhh kay then ... 11.5 years.

Yeah, so, I came into 914s via their older siblings, the last evolution of the 924 design ... that would be the 968 that I bought in 2006 with help from Joe O'Brien (Series9) and John Peterson (who drove us up from Las Vegas to southwestern Utah to get it!). I loved that 968, even though it was under-powered (somewhat) for its size - the N/A 3L inline 4-cylinder had 260 hp at sea level and plenty of torque - the car really was perfectly balanced and communicative on the corners. Just not a quick car, so ...

Back to 914s in a minute here. I took my 968 to the 2007 RRC with a keg of Turtle Mountain brew on my front seat from Rio Rancho to Moab (pretty sure I violated some laws somewhere). The keg was my price for entry without having a 914, though I always thought it should have been the 911 that brought the beer. At RRC '07, I met a ton of you western crazy ass 914 owners! Ferg was the one who flagged me into a parking space waaaay down away from the 914s, and the first people to give me shit (I mean, greet me) were Andy, Ron, and Howard. Of course.

So naturally I had to buy a 914. This I accomplished less than a year later. A '73 California car was purchased off evilbay near my Grandma's house, like wow it was in The Valley dude, then driven down to Huntington Beach to have fuel lines replaced, almost setting us all on fire at Joe Sharp's place where I met THOMAS (and Jim Hoyland I'm pretty sure) for a BBQ and finding out that Joe and my Uncle actually knew each other when they worked for LA County (over 10 million people and boom, I'm connected to two that know each other outside of my own connection, go figure), then limping back to New Mexico on a straight-shot all day (and almost all-night) marathon and heat-soaked drive with a 2.0L bus motor running on three cylinders (it wouldn't run on all four cylinders until it ate itself a few years later), then going all the way to the other coast in Florida to be reborn as another one of Joe (Series9)'s RS builds, and finally back to New Mexico where it lives a semi-retired life for various reasons that have less to do with the car and more to do with its owner.

I'm forgetting a lot ... more Rt66s and RRCs, a WCC in there somewhere, the one and only Atomic Ramble, the Tropical Ramble I, and various odd trips from the AZ crew out here to NM when O'Brien was building their cars out of his (now my) home's garage. Memories! I still have a small shed out back that holds various VoPo parts, though probably more Vo than Po. Oh, and I know where Erc Shea lives - visited him once before he got famous.

Yeah. Whew. I guess it has been a while and it has been a journey. I'm not sure what will be next for this car, but I just can't seem to shake the feeling that something will be next. I'd just like to get the shift linkage working this year, and maybe find time to take a drive somewhere. Events are hard for me to get to, but maybe some day I'll just go down to AZ and bump into old friends there. Kinda miss you weirdos.

I still can't believe I've been around here that long. Not as long as many, true, but still - long enough.

OK, I'm not exactly a Russian troll.

My dad bought my car when I was 6 over 40 years ago. I drove it at 16 while I could keep it running. It sat from then until I rescued it from the ranch before we sold it.

I brought it home in 1997 but didn't know anything about cars. It followed me to Campbell in 1999 (the Bowlsby mansion) where I started buying other cars to learn. We built our first race car (the gray car) and I bought a 993. Graduate school and kids got in the way, but today my Dad's car is fully restored thanks to SO MANY people here. Drove it last Sunday.

It is my first Porsche, and sits next to my 12th. I only plan one more.

Best post ever where is redshift....we need him

He's in a van, down by the river. you HAD to be there/here. Mega thread in the sandbox. Those were fun times. I accidentally clicked on Seanery's blog yesterday (fuching tablet) and saw he had recently been lurking. Hi Sean! Say howdy next time.

There was the high desert suspension ear repair in the parking lot at the motel, after the big day at Willow Springs?
Then the Black Bear diner late night stop.
Craig at CAMP

the welder was bought at the local Home Depot. After the repair was completed the welder was returned to the store. Lancaster Inn? the rave in Z.' room and security showed up at 1am. Crazy....

I was there for that, and then Doug and I are now both in OH. Weird world. That was WCC 2005, my first one. I had no running car and Joe Sharp lent me one of his, with bald tires, and pie tins for rain hats. I rode my motorcycle to his house (2.5hrs to LA from SD), dropped off bike, picked up car (keys left in it as Joe was at the party) and headed up to Cerritos (I think) to meet up in the hotel parking lot. Drunk in Neverland (Joe's camper) off of Cazadores with SLITS and Howard.

"If we have to come back to this room again, you're all out of here!". Camarillo iirc. That was a jam packed 7 days.

Well.....there was the R66 when Slits slept underneath the palm trees all night in Palm Springs.....and then there was the other time when.....

He didn’t sleep there all night.... (unless he went back after I went to bed).

I helped him get to his room at some point

The one I will never forget is the memory of Troy and the Russians at rrc about 14 years ago.

I will never "unsee" that picture

Almost 13 years here.
What the hell is wrong with me?

That Thead where Kitty photosops Eric Sheais still one of my faves.

Can't get the 'insert link' to work, but the thread is here:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...599&hl=evil photoshop&st=0

Fun to read all the stories!

I was one of the four people that helped conceive 914club.com - So, there's that. ;-) Before 914club.com was formed, I ran a SF Bay Area regional club called RoadGlue.com around 1999. There were lots of small 914 forum based sites in the late 90s and early 2000s, but 914club pretty much consolidated the bulk of them alongside Rennlist and Pelican.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I remember the trip to Monterey. We had a session out on the track, seems like it was two laps. And then a group pic on the track. I loved being at the back of the pack in my 914-6 able to fall back and take the elevator shaft with some speed. Man that was a hell of a drop.
Craig at CAMP

Oh man, I bet she regrets EVER having said that!! LOL