Car show set up

Congrates Dave, I had no doubts

Matt I hope you can post more pictures! I know you got some good ones!

Phil

That's no frog, it's "Dad's Mistress" in beautiful Delphi Green, which Mom called "urine yellow!" I don't recall if this L99A paint was ever used on 911's or 356's, and was a $206 extra cost custom color when Dad bought the car in 1973. 1973 and 74 were the only years it was available on 914's.

This is the best turned out 914 I've ever seen! Wonderful result of Dave's 10 yrs. of labor, and he did all the work.

I remember that now, and is a beautiful and well maintained ORIGINAL car!! I posted the pic as an example of one of my favorite colors there actually, along with the '76 green metallic car and my '75 Copper metallic- all rare colors , thanks for brining it down again! There were several nice original cars, another one, red, that was next to me that I think should have been in the Original class, as he was the original owner and it was all original except for a rear view mirror and euro tail lights- I would still call that car stock- change those lights out and you and he are the only cars that could have been in a 'preservation' group!!!!

some pics from DRPHIL914.

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Just a word of caution after seeing the above pic with the yellow -6 (?) on the trailer ....

You don't want to tow your 914s backwards, since the wind pressure can push the rear window out, or at least rattle it loose, because it was never designed for wind pressure in that direction, being in a protected "alcove" & only getting wind from the front with the top down.

Load 'em front end first & save yourself some grief, whether flat towing, on a dolly, trailer, flatbed or whatever.

Looks like all y'all had fun & avoided the worst of the rains.

Cheers!
Tom
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with Tom...
I've seen a few roofs become detached while towing backwards...even while spinning off track....

Thanks everyone for all the fantastic pictures of a great event!

I think we had 40 914s displayed at the car show.
Quite a few cancellations or "drove another car" due to weather.

Looking forward to next year and 100+ 914s

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I noticed a few cars that were on the drive were absent from the car show. I bet they returned back home to the storm areas in the Carolinas. And 2 cars for sure missed the show because they were parked on trailers after the drive!

Rolled past 914 for the 3rd time. This time near Shreveport, LA

Great pic

It was an incredibly fun weekend. This pic is the start of the drive to Jakes.

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I have posted CAR SHOW winners and AWARDS winners in THIS THREAD

There are a few entries with no names since I do not have a list handy. Please let me know the names of those winners.

Betty and I made it home OK. We left Vicksburg at 7 am, and about 10 miles or so down the road in LA, the front seal on the transmission of Betty's car failed spectacularly. It looked like an Indy car blowing a motor. Clouds of white smoke boiling out from under the rear. We pulled off to the shoulder, and I looked underneath. There was a huge puddle forming in the time we got back to look.

So we drove slowly to the next exit, and we got Elwood off the trailer, and put Frody on it. Michael commented "Not everyone brings a spare 914." The rest of the trip was uneventful, but a bit hot for Betty, as Elwood doesn't have AC.

We are grateful it happened on the way home, and when we had the trailer. Just put us about 30 minutes behind schedule.

Thanks for a great event!

Glad to see you made it home. Thanks for all you both do at the event. See you next year!

Photo by Ken Fast

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I suspected that Steve was piloting that drone! So was it actually Ken's toy?

Yes, it was Ken

I'll post some more of the drone footage including video tonight.

4th and final time rolling past 914 on the tripmeter. This time in Las Cruces, NM

Waiting to pull.

Making new friends

Father & Son projects.

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Whats the story on the ashtray in this car? It's piqued my interest.

Cool TVAAI



Turbo Vacuum Assisted Ash Intake

so that is the inside of my car- a member here made this, it holds a magnetic phone holder that slides into those holes, and sits very flat so my phone when using for nav and other hands free activities is secure- the holders originally designed to slide onto a vent. I do not remember who the member here was that made this, but it slides right in to the existing ashtray spot, nice and clean.

Nice!

here is the thread.... http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...p;hl=3d+ashtray

might be time for a new group buy! I like it much better than having something on my windshield. I have an Ipad mini and would love to have a way to hold it there.

I have posted all the photos of 914s entering the car show venue on the Okteenerfest Facebook page.

Bill's first issue leaving for Okteenerfest Wednesday morning.
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Kelvin Knight in his car at the museum at Barber Motorsport Park. This was on Thursday morning on the way to Okteenerfest.
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Aston Martin 'model car' at Barber museum. Scale is 1 to 1.
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There was even a 914 displayed in the museum.
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You know you're a Gear Head when you're taking pictures of the shop equipment in the behind the behind-the-scenes tour that Kelvin arranged for us at Barber. Clay wants this Water Jet for Christmas.
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Here's their extra large media blaster with Kelvin in the picture for scale.
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Just a few of the motorcycles stored that they don't have room to display in the actual museum.
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There's a walkway from the museum out over the track. That's a glass panel in the walkway... with one of the Porsche Experience cars flashing by under our feet.
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The 914 Rubber Tech Session at the car show on Saturday. Bill (not in the picture) (who had finally got his car running and had driven the 13 1/2 hours straight through to make it) was the very happy recipient of new door seals and threshold plates.
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Rear brake tech session Saturday in the hotel parking lot after the car show.
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In honor of my car turning 400,000 miles on the way to Okteenerfest, a very kind fellow hard-core teener brought us a bottle of '914 Bourbon' made in New York (thanks again SO much for doing that 914dave!) which we shared with everybody on Friday 09/14/2018 at 9:14 p.m.

We displayed the empty bottle on my car at the car show on Saturday
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And here is what we wrote on the bottle after it had been opened and enjoyed
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Very cool. Wish I was there to meet all you good peeps. Hopefully next year