I thought it would be a good idea to officially introduce myself,
since I've been subscribed for awhile and have posted a
couple times. I just drove home yesterday with my new toy,
a 914-6 (VIN 914031788). Attached is a bad picture of it in
its new home.

It needs some stuff done, though hopefully nothing too
serious. I'm assembling a list of questions that will appear
in later posts...

Cheers,

Skip Montanaro
Evanston, IL

Nice buy, keep those wheels!

Welcome!

More pics, please!!

I love the gasburner rims.

Nice car!!! Welcome to the club! By the way I was born in Evanston. A long, long time ago. (how much did it cost ya and where did you find it?)

Belated welcome and congrats on the car. I like the color and those wheels on it.

Hello and welcome

Nice ride

Nice car

I'm North West of you. Will you do PCA? SCCA? Hope our paths cross soon, nice car!

Welcome aboard!

Nice color, is it the original color?

More pics!!

Oh Ya Baby......gotta love it

Welcome

See Ya

dont sell those wheels.... they are worth a bunch.

Mahle Gas burners... lightest wheel made by porsche....

welcome aboard matey

Nice looking car...

Welcome! Great looking car. I am south of you (near Champaign), hope to see you at one of the many PCA/SCCA events.

M

Welcome, great looking car

Sweet! Burners!

Nice car!! welcome...
Post more pitures.....

P uu uuu uuu uuu rty!
Hey!
Good to meet ya,

What they said--welcome! But you're missing the "4" from your VIN... Should start "914043", not "91403"...

Mikelsr, I think it's a bit of an understatement to say that Mahomet is south of Evanston. It was about four hours away last time I drove it, though that was not in a 914...

A girl I dated in HS lived in Mahomet, actually.

--DD

QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ Oct 29 2005, 07:23 PM)

Mikelsr, I think it's a bit of an understatement to say that Mahomet is south of Evanston.  It was about four hours away last time I drove it, though that was not in a 914...  ;) A girl I dated in HS lived in Mahomet, actually. --DD

Dave,
It depends on how fast you drive!
Well I know the girl you dated wasn't my daughter! I would have remembered a car guy.

M

Welcome.

Very nice find. I'm out here in Rockfish if you need non-6 specific parts, I've pobably got 'em.

Chris

QUOTE (mikelsr @ Oct 29 2005, 07:57 PM)

Well I know the girl you dated wasn't my daughter! I would have remembered a car guy.

I wasn't a car guy back then. And unless you were a bio prof at the U of I 20 years ago, that wasn't your daughter...

--DD

QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ Oct 29 2005, 07:23 PM)

But you're missing the "4" from your VIN... Should start "914043", not "91403"...

Yeah, couldn't remember all the digits on the walk upstairs from the dining room to the computer room... It was easier when I had 356s. The VINs were so much shorter. Actually, when I called my insurance agent from St. Louis to get coverage for the drive home, the woman said, that VIN seems too short. I've never encountered one that short before...

Skip

Skip,

Could you do me a favor?

Could you look to see if your car has the "circles" cut out and the plastic inserts inserted in the holes right behind the fron bumper?

I'm just curious if yours are cut out with that early VIN.

Thanks.

P.S. Mine are not cut out and I have chasis no. 131981 which is stamped in the rear trunk.

QUOTE (olav @ Oct 30 2005, 04:29 PM)

Could you look to see if your car has the "circles" cut out and the plastic inserts inserted in the holes right behind the fron bumper?

I see seven holes with rubber plugs in the section in front of the spare,
evenly spaced between the two headlights. Am I describing what you
were asking about?

Skip

I was here 20 years ago and so was my daughter but I wasn't a Prof at the UI. Besides my daughter was only 8 then and I wouldn't have appreciated any one asking her out on a date!

QUOTE (smontanaro @ Oct 30 2005, 06:57 PM)

QUOTE (olav @ Oct 30 2005, 04:29 PM) Could  you look to see if your car has the "circles" cut out and the plastic inserts inserted in the holes right behind the fron bumper? I see seven holes with rubber plugs in the section in front of the spare, evenly spaced between the two headlights. Am I describing what you were asking about? Skip

Yes perfectly. Thank you.

Mine for some reason weren't punched out.