This EXACT thing happened to me. I was dating a woman for about a year, and we just got engaged. We were talking about where we'd buy a house and start a family together when she said "We we start having children, you'll have to get rid of the Mercedes". Keep in mind, I told her the story of wanting this car since I was 14 years old. I finally purchased it when I was 30 and I had had the car for about 7 years at that point. That was the beginning of the end, I called off the engagement shortly after...I've had the Mercedes over 20 years...I don't know where the woman is...

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I had one of these long before I was dating my wife. She jokes she married me for the car and the first evening we spent together wasn't really a date, it was to let her take the car for a drive. Between her and the kids I couldn't sell it if I wanted to.

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Well, kinda sorta, but totally different.

I bought my 914 back in 1974. My not yet wife was with me in 1991 when we spotted the El Camino and I had told her I was looking for a good one. For the first time in my life I owned two cars. The 914 stayed in the garage, the poor El Camino had to stay outside at that house.

We went on a fall foliage tour to Arkansas, and I tossed her luggage in the rear trunk with my stuff. I had no idea that makeup would melt when sitting above the heat exchangers. Lets just say she was not happy. The 914 was not air conditioned. After that trip she told me if I want her on trips I need a Porsche with air conditioning. In 1995 I bought the 911.

I had to look for a couple of years to find my 85 911 and then I had to sell my much loved 914.

So my wife forced me to sell a car, but it was replaced with the 911 and she has ridden with me to 41 states and Canada in it after I upgraded the air conditioning to blow ice cold air in the hottest weather.

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That is my desktop photo. Somewhere in the smokey mountains.

Do you have a photo of the 914? A friend of mine got a 911 that looked just like yours. I was able to test it safely for oversteer and what they say is true. It did a 180 is a fraction of a second.

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About 1982 or 83. The rear springs were just shot, and I had stiff Bilstien shocks on it. A good bump could compress the suspension, and the shocks would not rebound fast enough. Right after this photo, I replaced the rear coil springs and the bounce went away.

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This is me (I have not changed at all, except I grew a beard) in about 1975 or 1976. The old print had faded a lot. The 914 was Olympia Blue. I still had the original wheels on it there. It was a 1974 2.0 custom ordered to my specs. Appearance package, sway bars, no AC and Olympia Blue. It took them 6 months to get my car in so I drove the dealerships VW Rabbit.

Good brakes, GREAT tires! ;) :D

I love this scan. Presumably, that's a scan of a slide without the white frame around it? Or is it a scan of a negative and then you reversed the colors? Or did you scan a photo or slide and then add the film edges for effect (seems less likely to me)?

Yeah- what's going on? Cool photos! Do you have the original slides or negatives? Be fun to reprint and rescan them! I tried to enhance them, but there's not a lot of meat on the bones.

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I have a 100 MB file of the slide done on the $70,000 scanner at the place I used to work at. I have a nice 16x20 print on the wall of it in my office. It is a little cyan in the image, but the printer I used to make the print, printed rather "warm" and it made a perfect print. The frame edges are not some Photoshop border, it is the real deal scan of the frame of film. Back in the era of that photo negatives had more grain, so I shot it in Ektachrome 100.

Of course I still have the original slide of the top photo. Even kept in a dark place that slide has faded some over the years.

I set my camera up on a tripod, asked a buddy to press the exposure button and I drove past four times. That scanner was amazing, a full blown photogrammetric scanner and I scanned it as a native 12 micron resolution scan. The scanner had two plates of glass that flattened the film. It was almost magic how it never had newton rings.

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I remember in the day when slide film could be superior to print film. I've got a box of slides I took of The Tubes performing at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood around 1977. I've been meaning to dig it up and see how they print out- they were dark. Bummer that slides fade even when stored in the dark.

That pic doesn't look like it was taken on a tripod- the background is blurry and shows motion.

What about the other photo with the car on the grass?

Just dug these mechanic’s gloves out of the bottom of by tool box. I’ve been retired since 2012 so these might be considered antique artifacts!


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Moon over the Port Royal sound…

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He was a advanced armature photographer that shot the photo of me. He knew to pan the camera.

The one in the grass was likely shot by me with the self timer. I am a bit hazy on details from that shoot after 40+ years.

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I saw the Tubes at the Whiskey around '77 as well.
We may have been there at the same time.
Great show.

Fee Waybill was great but the only question is, What do you want from life?

An autographed picture of Randolph Mantooth?


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Dope.

I saw them another time at Bimbo's 365 Club in SF. We sat at the second table back from the stage and had a steak dinner. It was amazing. Fee was running around the floor grabbing people's drinks off the tables and drinking them. They put on the most entertaining show I ever saw with their theatrical acting out on stage.

A baby's arm holding an apple?


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When it's not done right
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