so when did you lose your virginity

[scotty914]

to a 914 any way... lets find out when we were all hooked to a tight, lean thing with a strange motion needed to get her going in the right direction ie ... when you heard down and over not up and over...

for me it was in 92 ( i was in the navy )i got a ride from one of the guys on my boat in his less than perfect 914 ( and do you realy think an enlisted guy could afford a perfect 914 ) , and that first right hand turn had me hooked

then it took 9 years to get that feeling again

[skline]

For me, it was 1977 in High school. I still remember the ads for them but then I saw my first Chalon and said that is what I want. I got the first 914 in 1982 after selling my full size Dodge custom van. I was on a car lot and saw it sitting on the side line. A 9 year old bright red 914. I bought it then for $2299.00 plus tax and license. It was a 1.7 with FI and sounded like a lawn mower. The exhaust needed to be replaced and had a few leaks. I loved that car. I built a new motor for it 2270 and put 45 Dellortos on it. Man was that car fast. I sold it after i got married for $3200 to some guy from Boston. I did not buy another one for almost 18 years. Now I have 2 of them. My little yellow stocker S optioned car and last year around October, I bought a not quite completed Chalon. I will keep these cars till I die.

[Huey1092]

For me it was in 1973, at my sisters wedding. The groom asked me to drive his 914 home after the ceremony and I was hooked. I've had two '73's and one '75 and a '63 356 in between. My current ride is a Cal 1.7l and its great; it's not fast enough to get me a ticket off the line, but it rolls and rolls and rolls on.....

[M. Hendrix]

In '73, I was nine, and my schoolmate's dad owned the local dealership... we would sit in them and scream like a wound out motor..

I should have snatched all the fuse box covers..

I got my first (75) in 82, and my last car I ordered one year ago, next Monday, @ 12:18PM EST.


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[URY914]

1972, Sebring 12 Hours, Brumos 914-6GT, Gregg/Haywood

1976, My best friend got a blue '72.

1977, Gainesville FL SCCA Regional, 914-6 ran down and passed a Vette on the last lap.

1979, I bought the one pictured on the left for $2,500 and my '70 Bug.

Paul

[scg]

I scored her in 1978 after lusting after her ever since she came out in 1970. It was a real close call though...there was that slut 240z down the street that was always flashing me....

"Because you're mine, I walk the line"
--Thanks, Johnny

[JmuRiz]

Circa 1988 a kid on my pee-wee football team's dad had a 914/6. I thought it looks to odd it was cool. Seeing Jeff Zwart's car in R&T got the wheels spinning again a few years later and about 3 years ago I finally got mine. I've had them on the brain REALLY bad for the past 10 years so I just had to get one

Nathan

[Barber Dave]

In 1988 my then 16 yr. old son decided I should buy him this
1973 Signal Orange .2.0 . I thought what the hell, he want,s a sports car with a small engine. I guess that was better the a Big block ,Ford ,Chevy.,or Mo Par. Well we took it for a test drive . I fell in love. My son decided it wasn,t fast enought, so we got a Ford Exp. I never recovered from that, and in 2000 I found a perfect
black 73 ,1.7. And we ( my 914 and I ) have been involved in this Affair ever since. From which there is no known cure. Dave

[BARRY MISHLER]

In `76 I took a ride in a friends `73 2.0 ,After the ride he told my about one in barn(`72) that could be had cheap,little did I know! Drove the snot outa that car...flying trips to Denver Co. and West Palm Fl. And a few speeding tickets.Sold it in `79. Just 6 short years ago I fell into the "project"(second child hood)`72 914 S . To be on the road very soon . Barry

[mike95125]

In 96 I was ststioned up in San Francisco at the Coast Guard Air Station. I needed a car as I had just rid myself of my 82 escort (first car) and all I had was my Motorcycle and a nice wet winter to deal with. I found this 71 1.7 in the paper down in Freemont/Haward area for $1.6k and thought, "Wow a Porsche for that little!" I went to look at the neglected beast and after a drive around the block I was hooked by its sound and excentricities.
Oddly enough, the guy offered me a corvair engine with it and I declined...funny how you end up back where you started. I sold it for a ridiculously low price when I got out of the Guard. I wanted one for two years after that and finaly found one in Tracy CA for $2.7k. I told the owner that I was in the market for around $2k-$1.8k and he said lets deal. It is still mine and if I can help it I will be keeping it till the grave.

[boogerboy72]

When i first went down in the basement by myself when I was four. I saw a 73 1.7 wating to be rebuilt. and shes still un moved, but now shes has a little company, dads 2.0.

[RD Evans]

My first car was a Orange '71 that I purchased in 1973 when I was 15 years old. It was 3 months before my 16th. birthday and my driver's license. That was a long 3 months! I got to drive it with my dad since I had a learner's permit. It's kinda sad that I remembered by High School classmates as the guy with cool Porsche.

[sammyg2]

Bought my first in 79. Stock 1971 1.7, daily driver, only car for 4 years.

[anthony]

My uncle had a brand new '74 2L (still kicking myself for not buying it when he sold it). I must have been 8 or 10 years old when I got my first ride in it. I remember him taking a freeway onramp cloverleaf at 50+ mph. I was hooked.

[M. Hendrix]

Originally posted by anthony
My uncle had a brand new '74 2L (still kicking myself for not buying it when he sold it). I must have been 8 or 10 years old when I got my first ride in it. I remember him taking a freeway onramp cloverleaf at 50+ mph. I was hooked.

Rockin! When I bought my first, I rode to Atlanta on a bus with a friend, and it took 5 hours to get back home, 130 miles away, because we kept looping offramps.




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[Andyrew]

Bout a year and a half ago, when i bought mine, interestingly that was my first ride in one (but I knew enough before at auto x's and stuff that I had to have one..)

I have a great story.. I just have to fish for it..

[Zeke]

1972. I just walked into the dealership and bought one. I don't think I'd ever driven one. Had some Corvettes and VW's before.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

In my Sunflower Yellow 1973 1.7, no joke.

The car was originally my Grandfather's that he bought brand new from Vasek Polak. My dad drove it all through high school, and I got it when I turned 16. Of course, it needed quite a bit of work by the time I got it, lol.

[Kansas 914]

1978...... I bought the 1972 Willow Green 914 in Tampa. I still own today. My Dad said a friend of his was selling a car and he knew I was looking for a car for my wife. He didn't know what it was but the guy wanted $1800. I went to the guys house bought it after a 3 minute test drive.

I recently found some documentation that my car was orignally purchased from Stoddard Imports in Willoughby, Ohio. I even have the dealer serial number and maintenance records.

I am still with my first 914 but not my first wife.....

[914GT]

Got my first 914 (Zambezi green) in about '87. A friend traded me the car in exchange for an IBM PC. What a deal, the PC not worth anything after about two years. Kept it until '89, had too many cars and wife/kids (more the wife) wanted a piano. Reluctantly sold the Porsche to buy a piano (see a common theme here?). A prospective buyer came over to look at mine driving a yellow V8. I said to myself - one of these days I want one of those. So last year bought a beat-up '74 Alaska Blue metallic. Rebuilt it from ground up and painted it Chrome yellow, and now getting ready for the final part of the conversion phase. Can't figure out what I like about these cars, when they first came out I was not particularly fond of them.