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found on ebay

This 914 Sounds Like "A Gay Deep Throated Angry Demon!"

What we have here is a 1974 Porsche 914 with a Chevy 350 engine and a Ferrari-influenced body kit, sort of a German Malaise version of the Fierrari. The owner needs to sell because he's "just sick," plus he's accepted a lifetime career opportunity in NYC and, you know, "Goodness only knows what insurance would cost and what vandalism it would be subject to there." The disturbing part is this statement: "On the road it sounds like a gay deep throated angry demon!" Yes, that's exactly the sound we're all looking for in a car! Thanks to Yurikaze for the tip! [eBay Motors]



choose your eternity

PCH, Great Rusty North Edition: Triumph GT6 or Porsche 914?

It looks like Italy has been knocked off the PCH Superpower throne by the UK, according to the results of yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll. That means that PCH SuperGigaPower France awaits the chance to take on its historical PCH rival from across the Channel. But first, let's see how Britain fares against a rival that, though falling somewhat short of true PCH Superpower status due to the stubborn reliability of so many of its vehicles, still puts forward some strong Hell Project competition. And, just to make things interesting, let's get our contestants from Canada, where an iron atom never found an oxygen atom it didn't want to establish a caring, lifelong relationship with. We can thank HoserDave for these tips, and of course a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt will soon be thrown into a dogsled and mushed all the way up to his igloo.
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down on the street

Porsche 914, With Bonus DOTS Porsche Poll

Since way more than a month has passed since the last DOTS Porsche, it's time for another one! In fact, we've seen enough of Alameda's street-parked Porsches to have a poll to see which one is the favorite of our readers. This lil' yellow devil parks within a block of where I shot the '68 GTO and the '68 Belvedere Wagon, so it's in good company. I'm not sure of the year, but it's definitely early 1970s.
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down on the street

Porsche 914

When we had the Is the 914 DOTS-worthy? poll a while back, 85% of you answered in the affirmative. That means it's about time we saw one of Alameda's 914s... which have turned out to be really hard for me to catch in photographable circumstances. I see them in parking lots, driveways, parallel-parked snout-to-tail with other cars that block the shot angles. Finally, I found this somewhat rough example, which lives near the '69 Fairlady.
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choose your eternity

Project Car Hell: V8 MGB or V8 914?

First of all, it looks like the Jalopnik readership feels I should pass on the '65 Falcon wagon in favor of the remote-twin-turbo Volvo wagon, though not by a huge margin. Food for thought, indeed; will keep youse informed. And let's not forget Friday's PCH Pimp Edition poll, in which we had our closest vote ever: at the time of this writing, the Bill Blass Lincoln leads the Cordoba 243 to 236! Looks like we'll need to do another Pimp Edition, to settle the issue once and for all. But enough about the past- now it's time to look at today's PCH contestants... More »

custom

We're Not Even Close to Being Done: Porsche 914amino!

The hits just keep on coming. This time, an astute reader found a vintage shot of a modified (well, duh) Porsche 914 pickup, accented by some period-specific cheesecake action, from VW Trends magazine. We probably begged our mom to buy us this exact issue at the A&P long about 30 years ago. She likely took one look at the hiphugger-clad V-dub babe on the cover and set to shielding our eyes with a medium-sized sack of Hecker's flour to the side of the head. Thanks, mom. Hilarity ensues after the jump. [Thanks to John for the tip.] More »

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Porsche Working on a New 914?

A new 914 from Porsche? Will it be fun? Will it be cheap? Will it catch fire like a basement full of oil-soaked rags? All these questions may be answered if a report in Road and Track is on the money. The new niner would recall the old model's VW/Porsche connection — a stripped-down Boxster, weighing in at only 2650 lb., powered by a juiced-up version of Volkswagen s 2.0-liter TFSI turbo four producing 230 bhp. Sure it'd be panned for its degradation of the Porsche marque, but it might be good for a laugh. More »