QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Mar 3 2020, 06:46 AM)
At the Porsche parade in Fort Worth in 2004, Peter Porsche was looking at the Concour field. He was asked if he loved all the beautiful Porsches displayed. He said he would rather see them driven.
A beautiful car that is not driven is not a car. It is an art exhibit. An auto museum is a mausoleum, where you go to look at past glories of cars, never to see the road or track again. The only difference between a museum and a wrecking yard is that the cars in the wrecking yard were never historically significant. I always look at both with sadness. The museum is the state funeral for historic cars that never ends. The wrecking yard is the potter's field, where no one cares anymore.
So.. get off your butts and show your 914 the appreciation it deserves. Work on it and dream of driving it when its finished. Otherwise, get out and drive it, even if only to work. Go find some twisties this weekend and carve up the road.
CARPE VIAM!! Cannot agree more. Very few museums (or collections, for that matter) keep each car ready to go and really put them out there. A few manufacturers really put their old cars to work, but the sad reality is so many great cars become 1:1 models. That leak oil.
Far better that they're out there, and a driven hot rod is always more interesting to me than a static former hero.
Will say that this is a good end to a car collection, however—particularly if the university benefits (which it certainly will) and more so if those cars make it out into the world in the hands of someone like this...