I took delivery on my 1974 914 2.0
Friday, September 13th 1974 and 12:02 PM on a sunny day my 914 finally arrived at the dealership. I brought the car back in on Monday morning with 605 miles on in ready for the first service.
In March of 1974 I went to the local VW Porsche Audi dealership to order my dream car.
I was 19 years old and had been saving money and building credit for "all my working career"
Not one salesman would even acknowledge me. I finally picked out the old Grey haired guy with the biggest office and sat down and stared at him. He finally ask if he could help me. I said in a loud voice "yea, I am here to order a Porsche" I knew way more about 914s than any of the salesmen. I started with the list of what I wanted and he said they don't have any like that. He really want to sell the Orange and white Limited Edition on on the floor. He wrote up the order, I wrote a check for $6,742 and he said it would be in next week. What a lie. That dealers number is 277-1700. I remember that because I called every morning and they said it would be in this afternoon. In the afternoon they said tomorrow.
This was taken in about 1979 when the rear springs had worn out. The Bilstien shocks were stiff. There was a dip in the road and the suspension was compressed but the shocks would not let the wheels move out. I replaced the spring right after that and it would not hop in the air anymore.
The 914 was my only car and I had no garage until 1980 when I bought my house. After I got married we took a fall foliage tour to Arkansas. It was a hot fall day and all the makeup my wife had melted in the rear trunk. She said I needed a Porsche with air conditioning. That is when I started looking for a 911. I could not keep the 914 and the 911 so once the 911 was in the garage the 914 was put up for sale. I sold it in 1995 after 21 years and 160,000 miles.
I don't know how many Friday September the 13th have passed since 1974 but that day is forever burned in my mind. It was a great day.
