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       2500                                                                                                                                                 SUPER                                                                                                                                             A reference to 2.5L SUBARU                                                                                                        the plate tells the rest of the storyIMG_20200211_105512_825

Is that 2500 SUPER emblem created by you or can you share who makes them?

I searched, I cannot find a "tobopopobo" photographer
Thanks

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I have built 53 914 and 914/6 cars and you can never ever mention the word Volkswagen while in a 914 owners company. lol

That's because they've been carrying a chip on their shoulders since that car came out. It didn't help that the body was made by Karmann and it was labeled as being the "Poor Man's Porsche. Of course with the prices they command today they may get their wish. Especially if you have a 914/6.

@Robert M posted:

That's because they've been carrying a chip on their shoulders since that car came out. It didn't help that the body was made by Karmann and it was labeled as being the "Poor Man's Porsche. Of course with the prices they command today they may get their wish. Especially if you have a 914/6.

LOL. So true. I have only seen 4 rust free ones so far. They rust out worse than any old VW Beetle. I restored one 914/6 that was a numbers matching car ,but thankfully built a tubular support as when it came back from the strippers it was almost in two pieces, front half and back half. 35lbs of welding wire later.

@Carlos G posted:

That wasn't a fake emblem, the American version might be.   The Europeans embraced the VW/Porsche collaboration. Americans, not so much. And I'm being nice.

I loved my 914. I should've never sold it. Woulda coulda shoulda.

Not quite the whole story Carlos. It was a marketing executive at VW that came up with the idea of removing the VW connection with the 914 and sell it as a replacement for the 912 in the USA. Likewise when the 914 was to be replaced by the 944 in 76 Porsche was without a entry level priced car for the US market. Hence the USA only 912E came about. 2000 units built and sold only in the US. It was a 911 in almost every way with a slightly modified VW Type 4 engine with electronic ignition. I had on early on and it was a fun car to drive, not particularly fast but handled very well. Of course then there is the story of the ill fated 916 that never really go off the ground because it was faster and handled better than a 911 for a lot less money.

The Porsche-VW-Audi boards have been having an incestuous  relationship for decades. Like the 914 before it, the water cooled, transaxle cars (924/944/968) were born out of a stillborn Porsche design project for VW. The 914 was intended as a replacement for the Karman Ghia, until the new chairman decided VW was to be a “family car company.”
History repeated itself with the 924, aided by oil crisis. Originally intended to be the VW flagship, and an entry level Porsche to replace the 914, VW decided to go with the cheaper Golf-based Scirrocco instead.
Up until the 944 turbo, many of the 924 parts were off the shelf Jetta/Passat parts, including the suspension.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_924

AFAIK, all the models were sold as “VW-Porsches” in South Africa and Brazil, where the numbers of dealerships were fewer, and many were both brands.

FWIW, when I was a kid, there wasn’t a Porsche dealership in my town. (Still isn’t) The only place you could buy a Porsche was the VW dealership. You’d order it through them with the understanding they could display it for a couple of weeks.
This is the place: Chuck Peterson motors.  It was the first place I ever saw a Porsche IRL. A white 63 356B Karman coupe.
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