Who's 914 is this?

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:02 pm

To quell the boredom of a rainy sunday afternoon I was looking through some 914 foto's on Flikr and saw this english car. The pic was taken earlier this year touring parts of europe..nice car

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:08 pm

Looks like the poster is Richard Reynolds....I think his the car that was featured in 'Karls Cars'?
pictures here btw

Ian Gunney · Post by **Ian Gunney** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:49 pm

I think I may know someone who owned that car about 20 years ago.

Well there wouldn't have been too many black Cardiff registered 914s...

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:54 pm

Ian, which part of the number plate identifies it as registered in Cardiff?
I have searched for info about the old 3 letter suffix type number plates but can't find anything -plenty about the new number plate system.

Gilbert '71 T · Post by **Gilbert '71 T** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:06 pm

I'm fairly sure I spotted this car in the Earls Court area last sunday the reg also rings a bell, looks good, but then they always do in black

middlefour1 · Post by **middlefour1** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:08 pm

This is the car that was restored by Kerry Smith of VW Evolution back in 2001/2. The car had had a front end crash on the M5 and was sold through Universal Salvage. Kerry bought the car with the intention of making a competion car. When he tried to get it re-registered the DVLA got in touch to say the previous owner had notified them that the car was written off. To cut a very long story short Kerry and the previous owner got together and a large history file was handed over. The car started life in Kansas and ended up in Belguim. Kerry did a cracking job on the restoration, I was chatting with him at the recent Slough swappie and I did ask where the car was as I knew it had been sold on and it appeasr to have been sold on again. I've got a faint recolection (it' my age) that one of the recent owners was on here for a while. Anyway there you go, a nice car with a load of history. The car was featured in the long gone VW Motoring mag in October 2002. Pleased to say Kerry has another 914 which he is currently working on.

ged914cymru · Post by **ged914cymru** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:15 pm

Ian, which part of the number plate identifies it as registered in Cardiff?

"KG" identifies a "Cardiffian" car - & a darned nice 1 to boot!

Viv_Surby · Post by **Viv_Surby** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:42 pm

Ian Gunney wrote:I think I may know someone who owned that car about 20 years ago.

Well there wouldn't have been too many black Cardiff registered 914s...

'KG' used to actually denote a car first registered in Newport/Gwent area

58A - 71E · Post by **58A - 71E** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:12 am

fourteener wrote:I have searched for info about the old 3 letter suffix type number plates but can't find anything

Borrowed from another thread...

nick-moss wrote:Try this; http://freespace.virgin.net/tommy.sandham/where.htm

Ian Gunney · Post by **Ian Gunney** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:13 pm

Fair point Viv - how about Greater Cardiff....