I thought I'd start a thread as this will no doubt follow a similar pattern to my 964 thread.
The story of this rescue mission goes as follows; A friend of a friend is selling a few of his cars at the moment, my friend is buying a Karmann Ghia from him. He happened to mention that he has a Porsche/VW 914 tucked away to me, I didn't think much of it as I am not usually a fan.. This sat on my mind for the rest of the day so I started to google them and then I decided to ask more about it, turns out that it is an ex California car, used to be driven here but for the last 2 years it's sat in a garage.. It has done approx 50 miles since the last MOT so it should be good for the next, the garage it has been kept in is dry at least.
So after much googling, I quite fancy the idea of cleaning this up, possibly having it repainted if need be and maybe use it on a sunny day, the idea of it sounds great anyway but with my 964 due back from the bodyshop, my time is going to be limited...
What I know about it, it is a 2.0 twin carb, still don't know if it is a 4 or 6 cylinder and the paint is like sandpaper but it is all there so I think I may be able to rescue it, I hope...
Sadly it was too dark to get some pictures and it was buried deep under lots of junk but I could see Fuchs wheels upfront and something different on the rear, the bumpers have been powder coated black, it has a black interior and everything looked in order.
It needs some work I believe but all discussions have been left for this Saturday when it is going to be pulled out of the garage and fired up. It ran 2 years ago when put away so I suspect it should fire up after a jump. Looking forward to Saturday, the car is a 2 minute walk from mine so it's all very convenient.
Without seeing it properly, I have agreed to buy it and the hunt for parts has already begun.
:bandit:
Here are a few pics which the original owner took before he bought it. He bought it before it was UK registered, someone imported it and left it in a garage :?:
So that's it, albeit a fair few years ago and it is in a more complete state now..
Hopefully by the time I am done with it I can have it looking like this without the chrome.
Stay tuned :bye:
The story of this rescue mission goes as follows; A friend of a friend is selling a few of his cars at the moment, my friend is buying a Karmann Ghia from him. He happened to mention that he has a Porsche/VW 914 tucked away to me, I didn't think much of it as I am not usually a fan.. This sat on my mind for the rest of the day so I started to google them and then I decided to ask more about it, turns out that it is an ex California car, used to be driven here but for the last 2 years it's sat in a garage.. It has done approx 50 miles since the last MOT so it should be good for the next, the garage it has been kept in is dry at least.
So after much googling, I quite fancy the idea of cleaning this up, possibly having it repainted if need be and maybe use it on a sunny day, the idea of it sounds great anyway but with my 964 due back from the bodyshop, my time is going to be limited...
What I know about it, it is a 2.0 twin carb, still don't know if it is a 4 or 6 cylinder and the paint is like sandpaper but it is all there so I think I may be able to rescue it, I hope...
Sadly it was too dark to get some pictures and it was buried deep under lots of junk but I could see Fuchs wheels upfront and something different on the rear, the bumpers have been powder coated black, it has a black interior and everything looked in order.
It needs some work I believe but all discussions have been left for this Saturday when it is going to be pulled out of the garage and fired up. It ran 2 years ago when put away so I suspect it should fire up after a jump. Looking forward to Saturday, the car is a 2 minute walk from mine so it's all very convenient.
Without seeing it properly, I have agreed to buy it and the hunt for parts has already begun.
:bandit:
Here are a few pics which the original owner took before he bought it. He bought it before it was UK registered, someone imported it and left it in a garage :?:
So that's it, albeit a fair few years ago and it is in a more complete state now..
Hopefully by the time I am done with it I can have it looking like this without the chrome.
Stay tuned :bye: