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negawsklov
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Post by negawsklov »

I'm Ben and this is my 1973 914...

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I bought the car from my brother a few months ago. It needs a bit of tidying up but seems to be a generally straight example :)

I'm about to fit some BMW 320i calipers & new discs so would be interested to here from anyone else who has done this :) I'm following the Pelican tech article.

I also want to get the correct wing mirror to replace the 5quid plastic one currently fitted, so if anyone has one lying around, let me know :)

Ben
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Post by roger »

Hi Ben

Lovely looking car - did your brother buy this from someone in East Anglia?

Haven't tried the BMW calipers - I went the 911 front strut route so can't help. However, the correct wing mirrors are difficult to find. Your best bet might be the US - see :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/71-PORSC ... enameZWDVW
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Post by davidppp »

Hello again, and welcome!

The morror in that link looks wrong to me..the correct 914 OEM mirror has an angeled stem which joins right on the end..

Kind regards
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Post by negawsklov »

I'm not sure where he bought it...Dover I think???

I'm watching a mirror on ebay at the mo...does this look like the correct oem part?

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Post by Pablo »

Nice looking car there negawsklov.

Yep, thats defo the correct type of mirror.
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Post by Gilbert '71 T »

Welcome Ben,

Lovely looking car buddy, they don't 'arf look good in black 8) , but then I am biased :wink: bit of a challenge to keep looking clean.

Hope you enjoy the forum & be sure to add your car to the DDK 914 Register: Here
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Welcome Ben .
Hope to see you at a few of our Midlands meets.
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Welcome Ben, cool looking car.
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Post by abm914 »

Greetings Ben, is your brother called Toby? Looks like his old car???
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Post by negawsklov »

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, I look forward to meeting you all soon! :)
abm914 wrote:Greetings Ben, is your brother called Toby? Looks like his old car???
Yep that's him. He needed to sell the 14 to fund his 1966 bug which he'll be racing in the VWDRC so I had to snap it up!.

For any of you who knows Toby or is interested in hot Vdubs, here's a couple of pics from Santa Pod last weekend where he ran a pb of 14.34. Hopefully we'll be into the 13s pretty soon!

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Cool 914 & VW
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