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Vegas914

John Peterson
I like pictures :love: so here are a few of my X.

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I finally got the plate I had been waiting for.

I have 'Classic Rod 0914' on my Porsche. (it helps to have friends at the DMV)

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Thanks for the beautiful pics. There's nothing like the great southwest, especially when you put a pretty X1/9 in the middle of it!
 
beautiful picture, beautiful car

I love those wheels, to me the very best stock wheels Fiat (Bertone) ever put on an X.

So care to tell us your impressions of driving the two mid-engines, Fiat vs Porsche?
 
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Yup. The car on the left is a Porsche 914.
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So care to tell us your impressions of driving the two mid-engines, Fiat vs Porsche?
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I have owned an assortment of 914's over the past 18 years. It has been more than 10 yrs (and 5 cars ago) since I have had one with a significant amount of stock parts.

Both the X and the Teener are a ton of fun to drive. Literally.
I find myself thinking up excuses to take the new toy out for a spin. (Or maybe a late night run to the 4th closest Walmart.)

The targa top is much easier to stow in the 914.

The transmission is substantially better in the X.

The X feels more open, more like a true convertible.

There is a lot more luggage room in the Porsche.
(2 sets of golf clubs were a design criteria)

The wider stance and longer wheelbase make the Porsche feel flatter on the road. The seat of my pants / center of gravity feels a little further back in the Fiat.

People either - can not identify the cars - or - they have a brother / cousin / nighbor / friend who had one, back in the day.
(Always add 10 min. if stopping for gas. Somebody will come up to talk cars.)


In stock form both are great momentum machines. . . . just plain fun on a nice curvy road or a good hwy. exit ramp. :grin:
(I am alway happy to show someone the proper line.)
 
I've always loved the 914, I reckon they are a great platform. When I was 17 I was driving in the hills near our place one summer night at about 11pm in my X19. A set of headlights came up fast behind me and went roaring past. It was loud, very loud. The unmistakeable sound of a seriously worked Porsche flat 6 at high rpm. I didnt get a very good look at the car, all I saw was it was blue and it was a 914-6.

A few months later I saw the same car parked in the city as I drove by, so I madly pulled over to get out and take a look. It was a blue 914-6 sitting uber low on very wide Fuches wheels with fat little flares. Full roll cage inside, Sparco racing seats. It had two big long straight pipes out the back, with the waffle type baffle inside them. It had lots of fibreglass body panels and was finished off very nicely. It turns out a mate of mind served the guy in it at a drive in bottle shop where he worked, and the guy had built it purely for late night blasts in the hills. Cool.

I fell in love with 914's after seeing that car, and that car was largely responsible for the way my own X19 is turning out. Just had to share that story :)
 
Jim McKenzie said:
I love those wheels, to me the very best stock wheels Fiat (Bertone) ever put on an X.

So care to tell us your impressions of driving the two mid-engines, Fiat vs Porsche?
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Jim. it says next to your name in the sub heading, "X1/9, 850, Stratos". Care to share pictures of the Stratos?

I love the Stratos and any Stratos Porn is good in my book.
 
I should probably change that text...

it just means that my three favorite cars by appearance are the X, the 850 Spider and the Lancia Stratos. I do own two of them, likely (almost 100% certainty) will never own the Stratos, or even the Hawk 3000 kit car. http://www.hawkcars.co.uk/hf3000/index.html But no, I do not own a Stratos, just have the lust in my heart for one.
 
Nice pics!

So.... both cars have the same plate # now? In NY that would never happen :sad:

Did you get a chance to look at the timing yet?
 
Cool story. Back in the day,

I was the only one who had an X1/9 in my small town. There was one other guy who had a Porsche 914...
We would pass each other on occasion, both thinking we'd like to trade cars, just for one day.
Coveting thy neighbors, goods, so to speak....
 
People either - can not identify the cars - or - they have a brother / cousin / nighbor / friend who had one, back in the day.
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Not really back in the day but..
When I had my first ″car,″ a VW-based sandrail, I would often go to this German car mechanic (Karl Merkle) in Indy to get parts, and he always seemed to have one or two 914s for sale. I always thought it was a neat car, but never drove one (I got rid of the VW before I got my license). I also never really desired one, but I might have if I drove one.
 
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