After repaint and all the repairs I have lost that Old VW/Porsche interior smell. I miss it and want it back. Special glue and hemp mixture? I need a supplier.

Steve

I want to know to Steve, I love that smell, My 914 still has it but my old one had it more, I had OE interior still, I putting it in my 924s and my other cars if its in a can!
Andrew

It must be the glue in the composit back pad frame and door panels. I have encapsuled mine in fiberglass and the smell is trapped inside. There is no junkyard within 130 miles. If there was I would rip some of the fiber stuff out of a old Bug seat, sow it up in a pillow case and put behind the passengers seat. The window doesn't leak any more. Maybe some one could send me a pound or so.

Steve

Mostly 'old German car smell' is hot oil sucked in via the heat exchangers. Drive your car a while - it'll come back. 356's had horsehair in the upholstery but 914's just have cloth, vinyl, and foam rubber.

I always thought that smell was burned oil and gas rotting in the carb bowls.

More of an old car garage smell then a old Porsche smell, I guess.

When I got mine, the interior set off my allregies something fierce. 30 years of dust and dirt, I guess.

Zach

The smell is from old weiner schnitzel crumbs and weiss beer stains.

German factory workers are allowed to have two beers every day at lunch.

My wife is German and she hates the smell from childhood associations.

I love it though for the same reason.

She is going to Germany in a week or so, I'll try to get her to bring back some
old German car carpet and upholstrey pieces...

John

drive the teener, it should come back.

i love that smell

you guys are funny I always thought it was the smell of a special mildew that only grow on 914'a

I don't have any heater control valve or hoses. Just don't need them. So let me get this straight. I need to put in a can some burnt oil, Weiss beer, rotten gas, some old weiner schnitzel and set it on some old German carpet in the car for a few days? Sound right?

Steve

You took away the exhaust-powered heater and now you're complaining that it doesn't smell like exhaust-powered heat. It's my turn to be

Maybe you really wanted a Boxster all along...

Its a mixture of horse hair and vinyl.
Get a new interior..close all the windows and leave it in the sunshine...that should outgas enough to treat the interior with the smell.
Rich

dont forget some rat droppings and urine. If the car has ever sat around, it will have a slight hint of it.

I don't know where I'm going to find some horse hair around here. How about human hair? The girl that cuts my hair drives a Boxster. I'm sure she would be willing to help.

Steve

also don't forget the pungent aroma that whooshes out of the seat pad when you jump in...

It's a careful formulation of both hot and old, latent engine oil, ancient, leaked gasoline residue, mouldy, damp carpet and upholstery, and corroding ferrous material, with just a hint of ozone from marginalized wiring and a trace of a previous winsome girlfriends' 'eau de copulate' that creates that memorable scent that we find so intoxicating.

Paul

I always thought it had something to do with the tar. I don't think the 914 experience would be complete without that smell.
Tom

" a trace of a previous winsome girlfriends' 'eau de copulate' "


Paul,
Thats it! The missing ingredient. It 's Fantiasy Fest in KW this weekend and I think I can come up with everything I need and a little more. :

Thanks,
Steve