60HP?? well, with the big meat tires the flares enable the car will handle like nobody's business so you won't ever need to touch the brake pedal just keep your foot in it all the time

Return On Investment (ROI) - (Fun to Drive, Look at, Own) * (Years added to life Due to copious amount of pleasure) / Total money spent......

thanks for the encouragement brian! you are right of course! now to have that talk with my wife.......

Well, I talked to the wife, and she says (correctly) that if the money is gone, then the work MUST stop. We are already over budget on this phase of the project. I want a different answer, but I am NOT about to use a redit card and carry the balance with interest!
So, I just called my body shop and said HALT. he is going to go talk to the guy doing the work and see if we can get to an easy (and sensible) stopping point with out spending too much more.
I am so bummed about this, but at least I can bring it home and start the mechanical assembly part.

Well the guy at the body shop called. He kept the guy on it and on the clock all day yesterday, and he will finish the little things liek seat brackets, small pinholes in front of floor pan, and gettign the bottom of the car undercoated today OFF THE CLOCK!!!!!!
Then i can pick it up, and start on the re_assembly at least. I think I will give painting the trunks and passenger compartment a shot as well. gotta do what i can do to get it going, and learnig to lay down a little color can't be that hard can it?

Any way i will be pickign it up next weekend (23rd I guess) and starting the long raod back to car-dom

Just read through your entire thread while waiting for a vendor to get here.

You are an inspiration. I am in a similar situation with our 2.0. (In storage, awaiting funds to do rust repair/complete repaint.) Please keep the photos and stories coming with your progress.

Great job and don't be discouraged!

Well, here we are.
The car is back in my garage. I have been very happy with te work of the body shop so far.
Since I have gotten detail pictures of the high mounted third brake light, and there was some interest, I wnated to show those pics here:
first they cut out a section of the targa bar top center rear lip.






then they boxed in the top and back of the slot cut out for the ligh. if you look you can see the welded nuts for the mounting screws



then they completed the box by welding in the end peices





then test fit the light





pic with the top on. unfortunately the top hangs over a little now that I have deleted the targa bar trim

Then we noticed the rear trunk hingehad been repaired poorly by the DAPO, so we did it right

DAPO repair:






and repaired PROPERLY!





hard to see in these pics, but if you notice the entire engine compartment has been undercoated. in the first picture you can see the paper coverd coil of wire that was run for the brake light

then the final work:

cut holes for the Pilot driving lights



assembled car. pilots , hood, doors and fr bunper mounted



fuel tank area undercoated (the body guy who worked on the entire project is a Karmen Ghia guy)





Various undercoat shots






As always all pics are on my photobucket acount, jsut search for gopack42 if interedted. if you need to see anything in detail, just ask. if I am home, i will take a pic and post it for ya

Nice work Radioactive Man!!!

Hope your child making days are past and your have many 914 driving days ahead.

Life dictates the end of my 914 dream. car is for sale. Please be kind to a poor dreamer!
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I'm truly sorry for your loss...

Thanks... it is just the nature of life. money is indeed the god of our times!

My loss will become someone elses STEAL!