If you're on old car guy, you'll know he's purposely exaggerating for effect and pulling many issues across the car's time and placing them all together. Many of us have faced the issues he's describing at different times with older cars and so we can relate and nod our heads. The fact that he's a professor of automotive engineering, and has pictures of the drivetrain out of the car and a welder in hand doing bodywork shows that he doesn't actually drive a neglected 914 like a foolish teenager.

I've bought many an abused old car, including a 951 a couple years ago that had many similar issues. So I know what he's talking about. That doesn't mean I didn't fix the car and have it running smoothly now.

i'm old enough to need GI exams, and yeah cool flex, i understood that reference, i'm also a watercooled porsche guy, except this nostalgia about broken cars is not something i participate in. never have, never will. i don't get wishy washy over when i was so broke i couldn't fix everything (cars, house, computers, etc.) as soon as they developed issues. those weren't the good old days. the good old days were when i first started making enough money to make sure all of the stuff i owned was always in excellent condition and not a danger to myself and everyone else.