1973 Porsche 914

Yes, this is a Porsche. And I wasn't going to include any high-priced fancy-schmancy sports cars here in the Lotto Garage, but this is kind of an exception. When it was first being developed jointly by VW and Porsche back in the late 1960s, the plan was for the four-cylinder model to be marketed as a VW — the replacement for the aging Karmann-Ghia, while Porsche would separately market the 914-6 (a six-cylinder model if you haven't guessed) as a Porsche. Somewhere along the line someone decided, and they were probably correct, that you couldn't sell what was basically the same car as both a VW and a Porsche in North America, so it went to the Stuttgart sports car builder. I think I'd prefer the base, four-cylinder car with the el-cheapo hubcaps, an orange paint job, and the matching orange-and-black plaid interior. — jc