73 Crystal blue 914

Racecraft76 · Post by **Racecraft76** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:15 am

I have been busy trying to get my car ready for Volksfling at Biggar. Thought I'd post some pics of it as its been cleaned and polished within an inch of its life.

abm914 · Post by **abm914** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:09 pm

Looking sweet......

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:17 pm

Don't park next to mine at Biggar, you will make mine look bad.

Looks great

.

Racecraft76 · Post by **Racecraft76** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:23 pm

ummmm............the 914 wont be at Biggar now. Strut insets up front are completely knackered. Car was bouncing againts the Bump stops today as only suspension up front was from torsion bars. Need to get new ones and wont be able to get them and have them fitted by Friday

It looks like I may just have to pop over in my Toyota

Racecraft76 · Post by **Racecraft76** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:46 am

Derek wrote:Don't park next to mine at Biggar, you will make mine look bad.

Looks great .

I dont know? There are bits of the interior which could do with being freshend up a bit, but ill get round to that sooner or later.

Racecraft76 · Post by **Racecraft76** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:04 pm

just a quick update.

New front sturut inserts have cured suspension ills. Car is looking and running great.

Racecraft76 · Post by **Racecraft76** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:55 pm

Well today I decided to uncover the 14, I cant wait for the better weather so I can start enjoying it again.

Had a little spring cleaning to do on the car. I couldnt do anything else today due to there being no power in the farmhouse (Thanks Scottish Power

) and not being able to use my PC.

luckily the garage has a generator

The car is almost shiney enough to venture out into the world again

Compulsory shiney mirror shot.........

Ferry Man · Post by **Ferry Man** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:10 pm

The car looks great.
It's a lovely colour.

In that last shot, if you squint, you can just make out the photographers camera.

left4dead · Post by **left4dead** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:53 pm

These 914's are really starting to grow on me and after reading the article in Classic & Sports and seeing that they value them very reasonably I hit Export 56's website to see whether the yellow one (the one in the article) was still available - and it is!!!

Unfortunately, the price is £33k - more than three times C&SC's 'value now' price...

Not fair getting a guy all worked up like that...

Oh, Racecraft76 - that's one gorgeous shade of blue, btw. Is it Gulf? Although it looks quite torqouise (!) sometimes

Lightweight_911 · Post by **Lightweight_911** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:47 pm

Steve - I think there might be a clue in the title of this thread....

"73 Crystal blue 914"

left4dead · Post by **left4dead** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:52 pm

Ha-ha, yeah thanks!

(I'm such a klutz...

)

That's an actual colour? I thought it more a description!

Racecraft76 · Post by **Racecraft76** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:12 am

Ferry Man wrote:The car looks great.
It's a lovely colour.

In that last shot, if you squint, you can just make out the photographers camera.

I tried so hard to hide in the photo too

Ah, good old faithfull garage cam. Poor thing has been dropped, stood on, almost driven over and chewed by the dog

MRD-Porsche · Post by **MRD-Porsche** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:00 am

Love the color

Nice car!

pauladev · Post by **pauladev** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:35 am

Hours of loving work!! Great job!
Do you have the paint code? From the definitive color (note spelling) site, it looks close to Laguna Blue or in some pix Olympic Blue, which would be the '73 colour. Have a look at this http://homepage.mac.com/markd/914/colors.html

if you haven't seen it already

912uk · Post by **912uk** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:23 pm

I agree it's a 914 or a Ghia for me next..I can't see us seeing 914's this cheap for much longer..

Great looking car BTW