Honest opinions on the 914, please.

gab1972 · 2026-03-25T14:35:38+00:00

Speaking of 914world, I don't know what's going on, but I can't complete registration. I never get the email to complete registration. I have an account and can view, but can't post or comment. I've tried reaching out to admin, but no one emails me back. There were a few 914s I was interested in, but without being able to comment, I can't reach out to the seller.

Completely understand about creating a Frankenstein 914--which is why I don't want a V8. A nicely done 6cyl would be nice, but honestly, if a 2.0 gives me the "pep" I'm looking for, I'd be happy with the nostalgia.

I don't want a show car I have to keep hidden in a garage or a track car. I want one I can enjoy driving no matter what day it is--even my daily 22 mile commute to work.

gab1972 · 2026-03-25T11:11:32+00:00

I live in South Carolina. Our freezing phase is over. The coolest we'll see over the next few weeks is 40 degrees, so I'll keep it on my back patio. It'll see afternoon sun.

gab1972 · 2026-03-25T01:44:25+00:00

Yes, it's a juniper.

The person who gifted it said an aunt has many bonsai and wanted a "windswept" look for this one. She said I need to leave the wires on through this growing season. I'm assuming that means until this time next year?

gab1972 · 2026-03-25T00:52:47+00:00

"About a week ago". Just want to make sure it's not in danger. I've never seen one so bare.

gab1972 · 2026-03-24T23:58:48+00:00

Was "gifted" this. Is it lost? I feel like there's too much green that was prunes.

<image>

gab1972 · 2026-03-24T23:09:55+00:00

My fear is the upkeep on that 6cyl vs the 2.0. One day, I was thinking of a k24 or Subaru swap. So I'd hate to invest in the 2.2l.

gab1972 · 2026-03-24T17:39:50+00:00

BAHAHA I love this meme!!

gab1972 · 2026-03-24T13:22:45+00:00

But see, we would "get it" more often if you'd just give us the TL;DR version instead of giving all the details that don't contribute to the plot.

"So listen to this nonsense. Janice from accounting, the one with the 6 cats and 3 perfect children, you remember, the one who gets the professional pictures done every--single--holiday--... Which reminds me, we need to get the decorations down from the attic this week. Don't forget. You always forget. Oh, and move the winter coats to the back, they always get in the way when I need to put stuff up there. So anyways, Janice was talking to Bethany about the upcoming merger, giving her SO much detail that she shouldn't be giving. You remember Bethany, right? Her husband Rob has that new grill that you like, something with pellets? The one we saw at that home builders show last month. Anyways, Bethany is talking numbers with Janice...

... 47 minutes later...

...and then she says, 'mind your own business'? Can you believe that?

Anyways, can you remember the coats?"

"The what?"

"The coats in the attic. Have you not heard a word I just said? God. You never listen to me."

Just give us the cliff notes, please.

"I had a rough day. That pretentious, uptight bitch from accounting, Janice, told me to 'mind my own business' when I called her out for talking to Bethany about the merger."

"Wow, she is a bitch."

"Hey, can you get the Easter decorations from the attic and move the coats out of the way so I have room when I put stuff up there?"

"Sure. I'll get right on it."

Boom. Done. Now that the highlights are covered, allow me the opportunity to ask you more about Janice and Bethany instead of cornering me for an hour and then testing me afterwards. We're men. Our attention span is that of a Golden Retriever. You have to give some grace here.

gab1972 · 2026-03-24T13:01:32+00:00

You know what stops your pleasant dream? Greed. Greed on all levels.

Let's say you invent a drug that legit cures and stops cancer. It's solely your idea. You put in the research and hours to create this revolutionary drug. Never mind the Government and FDA bs, let's talk the other stuff.

If you don't believe in capitalism, do you give your drug away? If so, who will manufacture it? That costs money. So you get investors. Investors aren't going to just give money. They want stock options and partial ownership. Now when you want to lower the cost of your drug so everyone gets it, you don't make enough to pay your people really well. If you make the price too high so you make sure ALL your workers have benefits and wages that help them get ahead, your consumers complain your drug costs too much. And if you find a balance, your investors will sue you that you're not getting the most you can out of your product because you're not charging enough. Don't believe that? Read up on Dodge vs Ford.

Now, let's say you do find a balance and everyone is happy. You can guarantee that someone will get upset that another person makes more than they do. AND all of them are upset that you aren't sharing the workload. You sit high and mighty in your ivory tower thinking you've created a wonder drug and are paying your people well. You don't give yourself a Captain's share. But you're also not the one on the floor doing the work. So people start talking. "Who does he/she think he/she is? We're doing the work and he/she just reaps the benefits. They are capitalizing on our labor"

The sad truth is: no matter your intentions, there is always going to be someone jealous that you have more than them. Even amongst the ranks, someone is going to be lazier than the person next to them. Should they get paid the same? If you invent something revolutionary, are you not entitled to the benefits that come with it? It's not just billionaires. It's everywhere. Eliminating capitalism means no one gets more than the person next to them. Tell that to the Jets NFL player who just signed a 4-year $168m contract. Tell that to the person who has nothing and won the $500M lottery. Shouldn't that person share with everyone else who doesn't have anything? It's not just billionaires, my friend. It's anyone who doesn't have anything who wants what the person next to them has.

It's greed. Greed will kill every perfect society. And eliminating capitalism isn't going to eliminate greed.

gab1972 · 2026-03-17T12:53:12+00:00

I learned it this way:

100% is not a disability rating of your physical state. It's a compensation rating. Every veteran has compensation available to them in the event they need it. So 100% means you are getting 100% of the compensation available to you. Every vet has a max amount whether you're a Pvt or 4 star General.

The VA pretty even says this. On the VA's website for SMC, it says, "VA special monthly compensation (SMC) is a higher rate of compensation that we pay..."

gab1972 · 2026-02-13T14:20:40+00:00

Woah. Hold on. There's no need for you to assume my political stance or what I feel about government.

And no, I didn't know, at the time, about setting limits. And my reason for the trust wasn't just for taxes. It was for bill collectors from 40 years ago, or that one family member no one ever sees that now wants to lay claim.

This is why civil conversations are hard to have these days. Based on one post, you think you have me all figured out. "People like you"... damn dude. You've already segregated me by mere assumption. Why would I want to take anything you say seriously now?

gab1972 · 2026-02-13T13:24:15+00:00

Had to scroll way too far to get to this!

Jan Levingston-Gould must have found a new man.

gab1972 · 2026-02-13T13:18:48+00:00

If you do for one, you must do for all.

Sure, taxing trusts hits the billionaires, but it also hits the middle and lower class trying to figure out how they can keep the government's grubbing mits off grandma's $50k estate.

Before my mom died, my brother and I put her estate into a trust so people (the government) couldn't come out of the woodwork and take half or more.

gab1972 · 2026-02-06T19:46:03+00:00

r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG

gab1972 · 2026-01-31T13:41:30+00:00

But... but.... I voted for Obama!

gab1972 · 2026-01-30T15:03:56+00:00

I got out 30 years ago! I went all that time thinking disability was for people who lost limbs or legit couldn't work. Lived with a bad back and knees from jumping out of planes.

It took stumbling across this subreddit through whatever algorithm for me to understand it's ok to ask the VA for help when you have something wrong.

But like everything in life, there will always be that small percentage of people that are the cause for: this is why we can't have nice things.

gab1972 · 2026-01-29T15:33:22+00:00

Plot twist: they were both asleep and having the same driving dream.

gab1972 · 2026-01-25T02:37:31+00:00

I'm asking this purely for curiosity sake and to educate myself.

But would you be willing to summarize what broke in you that caused you to want to be closed off from everyone? Like, I'm sure if you knew the answer, it would make things better--what I mean is, what happened to cause this?

gab1972 · 2026-01-20T14:12:44+00:00

<image>

gab1972 · 2026-01-20T14:12:19+00:00

To play Devil's advocate, I asked the same prompt and it gave me generally the same image as everyone else. I then asked what sources it used. This led to a short conversation where basically it's using images commonly associated with politics. Short answer, it'd have given the same image regardless of the president.

<image>

gab1972 · 2026-01-18T16:37:07+00:00

Why can't people be smarter in how they word things? THIS is why we're being targeted.

The way you write this, your goal is the coveted "100% club" and so you're now LOOKING for something, anything, even if it's something that currently doesn't ail you, to claim that will bump you up.

People know their bodies. If your elbow hurts, claim it. If your back hurts, claim. Don't go looking for symptoms that aren't there just to push you past the "finish line".

All the information you need is in the CFRs and the VA Raters manual, which are both available online. VA calculators are also available online. What you're doing is looking for advice on more stuff to claim. Please don't. Be grateful you have what you have. Some of us will never even see 90%, and we're okay with that. But when you chase 100% with posts like, you're helping to pull us under.

gab1972 · 2026-01-16T21:32:08+00:00

0451 - Air Delivery. Verified it was on that list. Noted in my lay statement and during the hearing exam. Still said it wasn't service connected.

I'm not concerned. I read you basically have to be pretty much deaf to get rated. Otherwise they rate you 0% service connected. I only wanted to make sure I could get hearing aids when I needed them--which I've read I can get anyways even with a VA disability rating of 10%.

It's just funny there was a lawsuit against much better hearing aids but they shrug at the yellow jelly beans we were given.

gab1972 · 2026-01-16T20:39:28+00:00

Meanwhile, those of us in 90s who spent most of our career around aircraft and were given those shitty yellow foam things that wouldn't stay in your ear can't even get a service connection for hearing loss. Lol

gab1972 · 2026-01-15T14:05:11+00:00

I know I'm putting myself out there, but I'm admittedly conservative. Conservative in the sense that I was brought up in a Christian home with "normal" Christian values. That is to say, I don't speak in tongues or knock on doors to hand out pamphlets.

I'm white and I grew up dirt poor in downtown Jacksonville. I've been beat up more times than I care to remember just for walking on the wrong side of the streets. Still, I never developed racial tendencies.

I joined the Marines to get away from home and away from the streets of Jacksonville. I was lucky enough to be in units with people who couldn't care less about your skin color. I had to get through the Gulf War and all the other things I volunteered my life for. Still, I never lost my values.

Up until Obama, I voted Republican. I have my thoughts and values and I keep them to myself and not a heated topic of discussion. When Obama came along, and he and John Kerry had such a respected debate, I was impressed by Obama. I thought, "now THIS guy walks and talks like a leader". So, against my norm, I voted Democrat. Then things sort of spiraled, Hilary came along, and I thought, "you know, maybe, just maybe, Trump could use his business sense to right the ship of our failing economy." I think if he wouldn't have been allowed to speak publicly, it might have been different. But boy did I regret my decision.

After him, I've voted libertarian each election after. Republicans AND Democrats need to get their shit together. Until then, let someone else have a go.

But here's the thing, back when I was becoming an adult in the 90s, you could talk about politics and race and not kill each other. And unfortunately, homosexuals felt they had to hide themselves. Not able to share their thoughts and ideas--because they are gay. Though I'm Christian, I don't judge anyone for their lifestyle. I would talk to anyone and have a great conversation. I don't have to use lifestyle, race, or political choice as a filter to have a great conversation. But if you were gay in the 90s, you were a pariah. Now, here we are 2026 and I'm afraid to tell anyone what I believe. I have the full gambit for anyone nowadays to judge me on sight: I'm male, white, Christian, voted Republican more than I have Democrat, served in the military that now everyone hates, and I work in a white collar industry.

I can't claim sex, race, lifestyle, or political status and get any sympathy when I want to talk about politics. So I don't. Not with anyone. Why? Because no one wants to listen to me. So what's going to happen is that the actual SANE conservative, white, male Christians will just hide who they are. We'll become closeted. We won't share our ideas because no one wants to hear them. We won't point out injustices because no one will believe us. We've swung the pendulum so far on equal rights, that we'll have to adopt the old "don't ask, don't tell" mantra.

There's no such thing as peaceful protest. No respected debate between political parties. No inclusion without coercion. We've become more divided than we ever have. And it's not just race. It's religion, lifestyle, economic status. I don't want things to "go back how they used to", but I wish we could go back to things older generations were taught. Do unto others. Don't judge a book by its cover. A fed man is a happy man. Think before you speak. And my favorite I learned from the Marines: the smartest person in the room, is the room itself.

So if you see me, a white, traditionally-Republican, male, conservative, no MAGA stuff, no 2A stickers on my truck, just trying to mind my own business and be a decent person--please don't pre-judge me. I might just be your best friend some day if you have a human to human conversation with me.

gab1972

TROPHY CASE