[ubermonkey]

I'm a lifelong Porsche fan, and even owned an air-cooled 911 for a long time, but that part of my life is in the rearview now. Even so, I was happy to attend the Porsche festival Luftgekuhlt here in Durham last weekend.

I was astonished, upon turning a corner and seeing one, to realize I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that the 914 existed. It's one of those cars that was a dime a dozen in my 70s and 80s youth (along with MGs and proper, original VW Bugs) that slowly in inexorably vanished from the casual landscape.

Back then, I kind of hated them (the shared heritage with VW made them "not a real Porsche" in my eyes, which then as now preferred the lines of the 911s anyway), but now I find them charming little oddballs. We may take it as read that the examples at the show were in rather better running order than the one in the article. ;)

https://luftgekuhlt.com/