[GH85Carrera]

When i first moved to Oklahoma City, for whatever stupid reason, I picked a bank that was downtown. Back in the 1970s, banks were not allowed by law to have branches. Yea really. Nice bank, but it was a real pain to drive downtown. They had no on street parking, so to go inside, meant their own parking garage, and that was valet parking only!

I pulled up in my 914, with the roof off, and turned off the car, and of course set the parking brake. The valet needed my keys. so I asked if he could drive one of these cars. He replied in a snotty tone that he can drive anything. He fired it up, stuck it in second gear and of course it died. He tried again with third, and of course it died. He tried 2nd again and I said it will require you to use first gear, it is just a 2.0 liter 4 cylinder engine.

He held his hands up and asked where is first? So I reached in, and of course it is a dogleg 901 transmission, far to the left, and back. He started it again, and killed it. I suggested he really needs to take the parking brake off before trying to move the car. So he looked in the center console, under the dash, behind the steering wheel, and again put his hands upside down and he said where in hell is the parking brake release. I reached in, the the left of the seat, and he fired it up and put it in the very first spot that had a sign, reserved for bank president. I told him I would not be long.

When I returned, he handed me the keys and said I could drive it out. I smiled but did not say anything. I changed banks shortly after that to one down the street from me. And long ago the law was changed and we can have multiple branches of a bank like every other state.