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      06-06-2010, 07:11 PM   #1
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Recent Pictures with the Silver Grey Coupe

Bought new wheels for the car... picked them up in my only alternative transportation... a 1980s 911. I still can't believe they fit in there!







Detailed my father's E46 for father's day while visiting him in PA:






A BMW meet in eastern PA:





Weekend in NOVA golfing / driving:







And a video shot yesterday on our way to a golf course west of DC:




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And not really Z4 related, but many trips in the Z4MC up to PA to visit our car in time for lemons (including a test day at pocono race way):

Test day video


Late Winter


Late April
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Wheels look good!! You need a drop now :]
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Hey Fitch...
Nice 914!!!

I owned a '73 914 that started life as a 1.7; I converted to a 911 2.2S
I owned that car for over 25yrs

It was due for a ground up resto & I just didn't have the get go to do it.
Soooo many memories with that car.
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Wheels look good!! You need a drop now :]
Thanks - it's daily driven in the DC area and with all my other cars projects, I don't plan on modding the M coupe (at least for now). Plus it handles just fine for my purpose of doing a few Autoxs / De's a year.

Lastly, with a lot of funds going toward Lemons and the porsche projects, it's hard to make rationale sense on spending money on the M coupe which needs nothing to begin with
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Hey Fitch...
Nice 914!!!

I owned a '73 914 that started life as a 1.7; I converted to a 911 2.2S
I owned that car for over 25yrs

It was due for a ground up resto & I just didn't have the get go to do it.
Soooo many memories with that car.
Hey man,

Thanks - yeah that 914 was my dad's first porsche in the 70s. He put it into storage when I was born in the 80s and then I pulled it out a couple years ago to restore / mod when I graduated with my undergrad. This one is a 1971 in what was originally 'kelly green' I believe.

I created a website for it here: http://web.mac.com/dam338/Site/Proje..._Progress.html

But I haven't had the time to update it in awhile. Right now, the 914 has a carrera 3.2L flat 6 intalled in it (from the 80s so it's air/oil cooled). Remaining sticking points to get it running are running the oil lines and mounting the front oil cooler. Then just the Motronic ECU wiring which shouldn't be too bad (knock on wood).

they are really fun cars - like overgrown go-karts lol.
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Cool site..
Brings back lots of memories
My ultimate goal was to build a 916 replica, but never got there.
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Cool site..
Brings back lots of memories
My ultimate goal was to build a 916 replica, but never got there.
Thanks - yeah it's been a great time working on the car with my old man.

I've learned so much from him from such an early age by helping him in the garage when I was real young... that to finally work on a end-to-end project together is pretty cool.


I guess we might be getting toward the idea of a 916 replica. We plan on the 914-6 steel fender flares and the 3.2L flat-6 has about 240 horse - so it should move pretty well for such a light car.

Cosmetically it looks like 'crap' to most people right now, but we've done hours of rust repair and rear end reinforcement on the car.


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Oh man, I wish I could have made that meet... It was literally 5 min from my house.
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Yeah, I lucked out.. I didn't know it was going on until the morning of. But I was up working on the Lemons car for that weekend in Allentown area, so it worked out well.
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Love, love, love the RGR's, look perfect on the car, and a nice weight savings over the stockers. Nice choice Your video makes me desperately miss the back roads of Northern and Central Virginia where I grew up.
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Thanks!

I live 2 miles outside DC, so driving out to the 'boonies' every now and then is my only way to keep my sanity from all the constant traffic.
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Car looks greats.

Nice wheels

I like the 911 too.
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