Time for our Mar/Apr COTM!

The first five cars nominated (and seconded) will be be on the ballot. The winning car will be featured on the homepage during Mar/Apr. Also, the winner will receive a snazzy award-graphic for their member profile!!

Nomination Procedures

1. Example: Someone nominates (hypothetically) Betty's 1974 1.8 as COTM. Short narratives and/or details are not only allowed - they're encouraged!
2. The nomination must include the member's Board name and a picture of the car or a link to their 914World blog.
3. Someone else seconds that nomination for Betty's car (at this point, the nomination is official).
4. Once five cars have been nominated and seconded to be COTM, the nominations are complete.
5. Next, voting! (Please be fair. One vote per person, please. Don't use/register multiple accounts to cheat.)

Contest Rules

1. For the purpose of this contest, a "914" is defined as a car that started life and still retains the general shape and characteristics of a 914. (see previous postings for details)
2. Also, to be eligible for nomination, the car must be owned by an 914World Member. Because we want to preserve these pictures in the thread, please post the pictures here or link to an existing 914world thread/blog image. Do not link to pictures on external sites or photo hosting services.
3. The Admin team will open a separate thread for nominations before the beginning of the month. All COTM nominations must be "seconded" by another member. Once five COTM nominations that are seconded, nominations will be closed.
4. Any active (defined as at least 5 posts in the last month) 914World member may nominate any active member. The nomination must include the member's Board name and a picture of the car or a link to their 914World blog.
5. No self-nominations, please.
6. We will open a thread for to vote for COTM. Voting will last 10 calendar days! The car with the greatest number of votes wins COTM!
7. Once a car wins Car of the Month, that car is not eligible to win again until the next calendar year.
8. A member fortunate enough to have two or more stunning cars may win multiple times a year - it's really the car that wins COTM, not the member.

I nominate Dave Parson's 914. He goes by OttoX914 here I believe. Besides being a very tasty looking car, Dave is hiding a little known and often decried as impossible secret. He has a TURBO 914! Check out the tasty install... You have to sneak a peak under the driver side to see the hair dryer... The intercooler is the only visible sign when you peak through the engine lid... If you check the results in the Minnesota Autosports Club site you will see that Dave takes full advantage of the 914's natural dancing ability... Boy must have some talent too because they field 100+ at every event up there in summer... Can I get a witness? Second please!

Hey Dave! Do you have any other pics of that thing?

I nominate John Bovey's beautiful 74 914-6 . Now, I need to find a picture, but I def think that car is sure purtie.

he goes by Phoenix 914-6GT

I nominate Duc's (number6) 3.2 car. I know he bought a whole nuther car to upgrade this one.

T.C.

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I don't know if I can nominate one member's car and 2nd another car, but here goes.

I 2nd Jon Bovey's (Phoenix914-6GT) car.

and here's a picture.

T.C.

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Hey Rob, thanks for the nomination. Hope this doesn't bend any rules, you asked for a few more pics, but you seen to have harvested plenty.

Here's the back story on those 2 autox pics: The first one, I had just gotten back from 3 wks on the road for work, flew in the night before, had time to check the air in the 3 yr old "R" tires, thats about it. Finished 3rd our of 106 cars, the 2 that beat me were a supercharged S2k with, as the owner puts it, "over 300 at the wheels" running 315 tires, and I believe that, as he went thru 4 diffs last season, and an XP miata that lives in a trailer and puts 280whp down thru 275's. The S2k's margin was .11, the XP car just .872. And I put my tires back in the car and drove home while they were messing with their trailers and tow vehicles.

The 2nd pic was our season ending event, this past year themed as "The Austin Powers Autocross", which explains the groovy flowers. I ran the event, designed and set the course, came up with silly games and prizes, etc. Not a very serious day. Finished 21st out of 113, with 5 of the top 20 being sm2 cars. I set a fast track that day, with tight times- 4th to 21st place were separated by less than .2, which made for some fun drama as the day unfolded for who would place where for raw time.

Here's one more pic of the interior. I'll sit back and watch now.

Thanks-

Dave (ottox914)

Wow, nice car Dave. I second Dave's car

Thanks Ben and T.C.

I love the attention to detail on your car Dave... Is that a HotLap? Where did you get the gauge pod that fits in the ashtray opening of the dash? I have to get me one of those quick release steering wheels... Thanks Jon for the second...

Rob, you should be able to get one at your local flaps. That's where I got mine and it looks just like Daves.

I'd like to Nominate T.C.'s Root Werks 916

Jon`s got my vote

jon.... come to WCR.... ahaha


ill also second Dave's 914, because you cant turbo a 914 lol (i love your youtube videos btw)

I really would like to Ben but I need to make sure I have some money coming in. Need to take care of my wife, 2 1/2 year old son and 7 month old daughter before I can go play. Looks like ales may be picking up for me though and I am trying as hard as I can to make it to the WCR.

sixnotfour

Ex-Jon Lowe GT build.

Not sure where it stands not as far as completion.

That car is simply awesome. Can I second two cars? Well, if I can I will . I secong Jeff's GT.

i completely understand.... sell some houses lol

Sorry 1:25th scale models are not qualified!

I would like to nominate this car owned by member HaraldD. I have no info on the car other than the picture. More info would be great!

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I can second this nomination, having recently gone for a ride in this bad boy.

This car drives, looks, and especially sounds incredible.

The steel roof with sunroof is a nice touch that looks "right".

John

I second this one

it's the ex-car of Gerd Quist, race driver from the Max Moritz Racing Team
condagreen, LSD, 7x15 R-rims, 27mm spacers, ~ 185 PS

it was stored away for about 30 years and got a soft-restoration somewhen in 2005/06 (or so)

absolutely cool car !!!

+1

(I second that one)

....I like to second that.....

So we have two green, one orange, one yellow and a blue car this month . Very cool and another good tight race I am sure . All of these cars are killer (I should be a little biased but I must admit a little envy over some of these other cars ).

I may need to go take a few more pictures of Jeff's car if it is in picture shape and he let's me. That car is simply killer.

Is this the same car?

T.C.

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Eric thanks for nomination , like Jon said he needs to take some pictures for me.
Not ready for prime time .


Yes it is. It was all together once. Wife and Son even took it for a rip around.

Had always wondered who got that car when Jon Lowe jumped out of his 914s. I knew Michel in Canada had gotten his other project (I was trying to get that one).

I'm glad that you have it and look forward to seeing more of it.

T.C.

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sixnotfour

Ex-Jon Lowe GT build.

Not sure where it stands not as far as completion.
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I like the color, very unusual.

Wow....I second, third....whatever.

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That bit you are thinking is a hot lap is a wideband O2 meter, from an outfit in Canada, Western Motorsports, and it is designed to easily integrate with the SDS computer that runs it all. It really was plug and play, just connect a couple wires and its done. Now the WMS gauge shows the AFR in real time, and the WMS is connected to the SDS so during the parameters I set on the SDS, the car runs off the wideband O2 sensor and maintains 14.7:1 for light throttle driving, to keep the mpg's up.

The gauge pod is your generic 2 hole'r, with a slight bit of trimming to fit. I then put a plastic dash pad over the top of it all, so the gauges look more "built in" and finished. A side benefit of this is that in my 1973, just below that, is the fasten seat belt light, which has a key switched, light switched power that can be used to power the back lights in the gauges, so they dim with the rest of the dash lights. And not alot of fancy wiring to achieve this result- all the wires you need are right there.

I really like the QR wheel. With the deep bolsters of the seat, and my crunchy old joints, makes getting in/out much easier, particularly with the top on. The cool thing about the QR is that with the pegs, it has virtually NO slop at all, and its a locking wheel, so if I run to the DQ or something, and don't want to take it off, it won't grow legs and end up in some one elses car. Plus, by putting the wheel key on the same ring as the ignition, you have to turn the car off to remove the wheel, less chance of something bad happneing with the wheel off and car running.

Thanks for the nomination and 2nd.

Dave

Thanks, T.C., but my car is totally undeserving compared to all the other cool 914s here. Mine's just a clean, well-sorted DD - nothing compared to OttoX914's sweet turbo setup, for example.

I second OttoX914's nomination!

-duc

I would also like to nominate carreraguy's super-clean Subie conversion. Beautifully done! And I bet wicked fast!

-duc

We have our five nominees for this month. I'll start a poll to select the winner...