[Biggy72]

sorry to say my first car wasn't a 914.....it was a 55 chev pickup that I got running once and then realized how rusty it was so I got rid of it...no wonder I got it for free. Well any way my 8th car is a 914 and I'm only 18. I wonder where all my money went ...hm... and I've been working since i was 14. I like the look of the flexdam on the front and having it lowered a little personally. I also like the look of pedrinis or mahles and since you don't have to swap the lug pattern it's alot cheaper than some of your other wheel options. Get the body done first though. It's the one thing that if you practice enough, you can do it yourself and it won't cost you very much money. I bought some napa crossfire paint. That stuff's great, the paint, hardner, and reducer was all under a hundred bucks. all of my body work will have cost me about $300 when I'm done, but most of the rest of my car is complete so I won't have to put much money into other things other than seals and little things. Learn all you can about the things you can do on your own. Don't be like so many of these people who do part of it on their own and send it off to a body shop to do the rest. It's alot cheaper and you'll learn a skill that not many people have. Learn the mechanicals too, but you can always just look on here for that stuff. Don't expect everything to be perfect the first time, but as they saying goes practice makes perfect. Off to shoot another coat of primer (hopefully the last one on everything besides the front and rear trunk lids)