SOLD! 1976 Porsche 914
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Asking $42,500 OBO
Extremely clean, dry and original final year Porsche 914 2.0 finished in fantastic, largely original, 1976-only Lime Green Metallic paint (L98B) over a Sand Beige Leatherette interior with black carpets. Uncracked dash, refinished “baby” Fuchs, aftermarket Blaupunkt. Always a well-cared-for California car, enjoyed by five prior owners in the Sacramento area, two of which each owned it for +/-20 years.
104k miles, one engine rebuild at 97k miles, recent inspection and $8k of mechanical sorting at Schneider Autohaus in Santa Barbara (5/22/22). Cold start is instantaneous, it idles like an air cooled sewing machine, the original engine pulls strongly and smoothly through each of the gears and, in typical 914 fashion, it’s on rails through the corners.
Worth noting for CA residents: it retains all of its smog equipment, last passed in April and, per Schneider, should have no issues moving forward. For non-CA buyers: if the 6 or 7 horsepower sapped by the smog equipment and later exhaust is important to you, cap the ports at the heads, remove the smog pump belt and swap out the exhaust, heat exchangers and muffler. But please don’t just chuck the original equipment – it’s hard enough to find good ones, let alone find them smoggable, and trying to get one back to passable with some jerry-rigged eBay parts is no cruise through the canyon.
It’s not without its imperfections (paint chips, windshield chip, repaired driver seat bolster, rear decklid fading, a discoloration in the targa top), and like most of them, the headlights and eyebrows could use some experienced adjustment and dialing, but as the picture show, the negatives are all relatively minor or hard to see/photograph. The car absolutely pops, as much fun to look at as it is through the twisties, and because of the color, it garners attention from even the most veteran Porschephile.
There’s never a cars-and-coffee, event, or even fueling stop when some version of the following conversation doesn’t happen: “What’s that color? Is it Delphi? Viper? Palma? Willow?” “All good guesses, and depending on the light it can kind of look like each of them, but this one’s Lime Green Metallic, the rarer of the bunch. If you’re going to buy a 914, you have to get one of the great period colors, right? And this is arguably the most 1970s of any Porsche color, the perfect livery for a car iconic to the era and that’s aged better than anyone could have ever guessed.
Couple that with its dry, well-documented California history and its strong running, grin-inducing original mechanicals, and I’d say it’s a worth a look for anyone in the market. Asking $42,500 OBO.
TONS of photos can be seen at the following online photo album:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19Gx5lLvsszR1ci8QdFtuohSy7cKDnHIM?usp=sharing
Please note: the car retains its original CA blue license plate, but it’s currently titled and registered in Montana.