Not speedster material but thought you might enjoy

Thxs for sharing.  I had a '72 which I mildly modified - 2L Fuchs with Michelin XAS, F&R sway bars, Bilstein shocks, A/C (yeah I know), Rubber buggy bumpers, luggage rack, loud Bursh exhaust, bigger P&C, and argh Webers.  Finally sold in '84 for $500 more than I paid for it and got a Toyota PU.  Big mistake in retrospect.  Should actually have kept it stock.

Here's mine.  I think it was a 1970.  It also had air and it kind of worked.  Drove it from Huntington Beach to Jackson Hole Wyoming one winter for a ski trip and had it for the year I lived in Tahoe.  Great little car!

993:

I'm sure you checked these sites out:

http://www.914world.com/roadglue/forum/index.php    and     http://www.renegadehybrids.com/

Nice job on the body resto...lotsa work...

NICE!!

You know, I'd never seen the road glue site. Renegade has been around for years but you know, I'm really not a fan of putting American muscle in German cars. I'm of the opinion that you own a certain car because of what it is or represents, not to jam a huge foreign motor in it.......especially a 928......its already got a V8! If I want big American muscle, I'll buy a Vette

What 993 said x2!

I like the color!  Are you going with a stock engine, or are you going to do something hotter?

I'm not sure yet Chris. I have two motors for it. Thinking about booting the displacement up a little on the spare motor. It doesn't need to be a speed demon, I have the 993 for that. But I would like for it to be able to get out of its own way

Guy at the body shop keeps trying to convince me to put a 3.0L 911 motor in........but again, why? If I do another, I'll put a 911 motor in and build it purposefully to be a screamer!

cool. nice color. oh back in  the day. 1st ac car ever was an orange '70 914 with a frozen bottom end I bought for a grand. loved it. 5 tall gears and it was a freeway flier.

here's some of my 73 2l. only pics I've saved>

loved this car. bought it a ford dealer (trade in) for 4100 in 86. sold it at the end of that year for 5500. awesome car. took it to mexico once..and to about 10 greatful dead shows that summer

.914's are underated cars. not the best looking cars and everyone teased me about being a 'fake' porsche made by vw but all that meant nothing. awesome cars. drive forever if you take car of them

Looked like a really nice car.

Troy, love that 70's look! Great pic!

I went through 5 914's. 2 2.0's and 3 1.7's. Never a 1.8 or the 914-6. Of course I fantasized having a 6 but even back then they were a high dollar car used

I couldn't get enough of them. The best thing I liked was cruising easily/comfortably at 80 or 90. AND  they weren't too bad in the snow either... spin donuts in the hard snow of Squaw's parking lot having the time of my life...

Hey Troy are those corduroys? AND what part of TAHOE did you live in?

oh yeah there's one guy who stuffs subaru motors in them and that's just cool. 

I bought the thin aluminum 5 spoke-look Fuchs hub caps for my '72 914.  $19.95 for 4 from JC Whitney.  From a hundred feet they looked real - up close you could see all the dents from installing them.  I saw a set on SAMBA for $200!  I've got to find a picture.

They'd be great on a fake Speedster!

Love these old Porsche pics! Here's one from 1972. I had sold my '57 Porsche 1600S (for $1,200), then bought and sold a '61 Porsche Super90 (sold for $1,900) and used the proceeds to help buy this '68 911S Targa ($4,500). Too much fun cruising PCH in a Porsche and styling a banging 'fro!!! 

Picture of the fake Fuchs for 914/VW:

Yeah...............won't be doing that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^Wolf

Not sure what happened to the pic in my previous post...

Love these old Porsche pics! Here's one from 1972. I had sold my '57 Porsche 1600S (for $1,200), then bought and sold a '61 Porsche Super90 (sold for $1,900) and used the proceeds to help buy this '68 911S Targa ($4,500). Too much fun cruising PCH in a Porsche and styling a banging 'fro!!! 

Jim-

You rocked that 'fro, man. We were a little behind out on the plains-- I was the white-bread kid with the "helmet hair" out in Nowhere, USA, and came of age about 10 years after your picture.

All the old-school pictures are cool, but none of my ilk would have been caught dead in a itty-bitty German car. All self-respecting Midwest hick-town shop-head boys were required (by law) to drive A) a Camaro, or B) a Mustang.

I was the weird hick-town shop-head. I drove a Firebird (jump back). It did however, have the required (again, by law) metal-flake paint, 10" Cragar S/Ss, and bangin' Jensen stereo.

Youth, it seems, was wasted on the young.

stan you redneck. nothing wrong with a camaro or mustang. They went fast and chicks dug em'. that's all that mattered right?

i was the farthest thing. lived near SF in Palo Alto. Mom grew pot amongst her organic garden and dad built alternative houses. he insisted we drive some kind of european car

outta' site pics musbjim. bellbottoms? bitchin'. if that pic was 1972 I was 10 and driving a mini bike

Yup.  I'm pretty sure they were cords!.  I lived on South Shore, just off of Pioneer Trail.  Moved there in 1975 after I had my heart broken in Huntington Beach by Jo Rodheim.  Man she was a hottie!

I worked for the Neurosurgeon up there for a couple of hours every morning and then would head for the slopes at Heavenly Valley.  With all the babes up there, I got over the broken heart pretty quick.  Ran out of money after about a year and moved up to Chico...party capital of the world!  That was a whole different adventure. 

Troy I used to be all over south shore. we had a cabin at the top of Ski Run..very top. It was a little 3bd that my dad and uncle built in the 60's. It's still there. Amazing as it's nestled amongst a zillion condos and townhouses. We're now over on the west side of the lake since '68

I had the cords too. Light brown that was my color. Never that weird black though haha. I'd wear 'till there were no cords in the ass

oh yeah I forgot to mention I love that chocolate brown color. especially when you'd see 911's that color. sorta' like that green they used to paint them. very euro and fit the body style