And that is how my life long love affair with this marque begun. And life was very kind indeed to this love affair. More than ten years later I got my first 911 and after that the second and so on. Six 911s later, I now regularly enjoy the thrill of driving my 964 Carrera 4. I’ve also had a water cooled 911 and, great as it was in performance, it didn’t hold the romantic pull on me that the air cooled models do.
Nonetheless, throughout my Porsche experience I have never stopped seeing the 914 as a thing of beauty. And the engineering was far ahead of its time. A proper mid-engined car for very little money compared to other mid-engined models of the period. Simplicity at its best.