Part 4 of 4
Kevin ever-lurks FB Marketplace. Last week, he stumbled across a deal and passed it along to the work group-text. I messaged the seller and waited to see if those ahead of me passed. They did, so Kevin and I loaded up the Cayenne yesterday and headed to Ohio to collect a rusty mess of a car for me to tinker on.
#cambergang
We pushed the poor old sod onto the trailer and I took a picture.
Again, we made it <2 miles before stopping. This time for lunch instead of a break down.
No Waffle Houses on this trip, but we did stop at an apple orchard in seek of cidar. Alas, we were two weeks early and came away empty-handed. An older fella there stopped us to talk about the 914. Nothing like an old car to get strangers to chat.
We got it home by 1530, had the trailer returned by 1600, and actually got the whole thing done in the allotted time-frame. #result
This morning, I snapped a couple pics to really make the LBDC look nice and to attempt to show how poor of shape the 914 is in.
All in, it's a 1972, 59k mile, Midwestern-only car that's sat out the last 30 years of driving. 20 of those were indoors, but ten were in tall grass. The HellHole is rotted to nothing. I'm frankly glad the wheel didn't come off while moving the car or trailering it. The fronts of the longs are open. And I haven't yet attempted to put it on a lift. I may or may not be acquiring another 914 for parts soon and have yet to decide what I'm actually going to do with any of it. I have visions of a tube-chassis car with Sheridan or Group 5 body work powered by a 987.2 PDK driveline. But fixing the rust and selling it on isn't a terrible idea either. 50:50 at this point.
The car is complete. The interior looks very decent for being 51 years old, targa top is intact and appears to even seal pretty well. Most of the rust has been limited to the undercarriage, but there is evidence of it making inroads into the upper body. For what I paid, I can part it out and make back my money. So it seemed worth the gamble.
IDK if I'm going to make a thread for it, make a YouTube series out of it, or not document it at all. Updates on the '14 will be less frequent as the LBDC is still my priority and I have finite funds.
Now, if I stumble across a bunch of sponsors willing to send me parts and supplies, the 914 may pick up some speed and maybe even develop momentum. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves yet. *continues reading threads about tube-chassis buildinig*