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Posted by: Britain Smith May 29 2012, 04:30 PM

Saw this picture on Facebook this morning...thought I would share. It looks interesting with the Sheridan front end.

Posted by: SirAndy May 29 2012, 04:57 PM

That looks like a 9eleben with a 914 Sheridan nose ...

Posted by: URY914 May 29 2012, 05:05 PM

I saw it on Flickr and asked the guy for more pics of it.

Posted by: carr914 May 29 2012, 05:11 PM

Looks like Ass

Posted by: '73-914kid May 29 2012, 05:32 PM

Part of me is attracted to it... I don't know why..maybe it's the Just the Martini paint job though. Looks kind of like they molded a fiberglass Boxster fastback hardtop on to it.

Posted by: URY914 May 29 2012, 06:47 PM

My Flickr friend responded with this..........

"He bought this in, I think, 2008, from New Mexico. It was white, but with all the fibreglass body panels (minus the buttresses) in place. It started life as a regular 4cyl 914, but the previous owner had installed a 911 engine and had set it up for racing. My boss painted it silver, and I actually applied a large amount of the decals. Most of the parts have been replaced/upgraded since he bought it - new suspension, diff, etc. etc. The buttresses are the newest addition. They don't add much weight, just a few pounds, and it does make the often awkward 914 design rather more palatable. He decided to name it the 913, the car Porsche never made :-)

He used it for the past several years for racing at the nearest proper road course track, but since winning a chequered flag, he's concentrating more on slalom."

Actually, here's an in car video from this very event last Sunday:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPpJV_U7UOI&list= UUIAvuB4U_wC...

You can see some other in-car videos on his Youtube channel.

Posted by: URY914 May 29 2012, 06:48 PM

Posted by: URY914 May 29 2012, 06:51 PM

The car is in Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada,

Posted by: seanery May 29 2012, 07:18 PM

seeing that it's not permanent, I think its interesting...although a bit odd, I wonder what made them decide to try it?

Posted by: bandjoey May 29 2012, 07:34 PM

A Twisted Sister 911.... It'd take a little getting used to but to drive a fast one like that, guess I could get used to it.

Posted by: scotty b May 29 2012, 07:39 PM

Posted by: dlkawashima May 29 2012, 07:47 PM

So ...... buttresses like a Fiero GT ...... no rear glass (or is the 914 rear window still there)?

Posted by: 7TPorsh May 30 2012, 06:43 PM

It's like painting a 911 on the side of a VW bus...but I always thought THAT looked kinda cool.
Saw one once towing a 911 that had the same paint scheme.

Posted by: McMark May 30 2012, 07:28 PM

I have a 911 roof section at the shop and toyed with the idea of making a hybrid. Then I realized I had WAY more important things to do with my time.

I don't think it's horrible.

Posted by: c/s914 Jun 8 2012, 02:53 PM

I'm the owner

I was waiting to smooth out the shape a bit better before springing the "913" on the world but as the "cat is out of the bag" so to speak ...here is more or less how/why I came up with the idea.

You see I've never been one to leave well enough alone
...turning a BMW 325e into a M3 clone, putting a "V" grille on the front of my wife's Audi TT, and of course one of my pieces d'la resistance the infamous BMW X7

...Where I keep reading lips everywhere I go "BMW makes a minivan?"


Anyway, so one day while walking by my C/S 914 autocross car carrying a piece of blue bristol board I noted that it was the exact same shade of Gulf blue. Having just had a ride in a friends 328GTS I started wondering how that shape would look on the teener?


But of course adding anything like that to a Stock class car is a no-no, but it got me thinking about what I could do to my 914-6 Road racing car (seeing that they grouped me in GT-1 because I had roll cage structure around my front mounted fuel cell making me what they called tube framed , yeah right...) So I got to chase after cars like this on the track: http://youtu.be/uU2QBEnFXuM

So the rebel in me decided to have some fun as I was placed in the highest class of racing (which is the catch all class anyway) so why not create something that may not be as fast as the 600hp Corvettes but would certainly make people notice me
Thus was born the "913" which morphed from this:



to this:





I just can't decide whether to leave well enough alone now or to lose the signal light humps to really confuse people

S.Chapman
New Brunswick, Canada

(pictures by Gordon, Harold, Kevin... Thanks guys!)

Posted by: smj Jun 8 2012, 03:08 PM

I think it's fine - but then I'm weird, I like my slant nose six and intend to keep it that way.

If you missed the Excellence article years back on Ron Mistak's 911 GT1 look-alike built up from a tube-framed 914, have a look at http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-914-914-6-technical-forum/204274-porsche-914-conversion-911-a.html#post1754332. Then plug his name into a search engine...

Posted by: Dr Evil Jun 8 2012, 03:53 PM

Lines kind of like a new Nissan Z, but I do kind of like it. That BMW van is great!

Posted by: jsayre914 Jun 8 2012, 04:47 PM

I like the look, leave it alone.

Nice Job

Posted by: Thestigz06 Jun 8 2012, 11:43 PM

Posted by: RobW Jun 9 2012, 12:30 AM

959 headlights and you've nailed it!

Posted by: Dasnowman Jun 9 2012, 12:43 AM

lol you must be like me you get board so you keep changing stuff and also want something different so people at first glace are what is that
... I like both before and after.

Posted by: rnellums Jun 9 2012, 07:22 AM

Is that an Ice Green metallic shark I see in the background?

Posted by: c/s914 Jun 9 2012, 08:52 AM

More of a pale blue whale...



S.Chapman
911
912
913 (Martini race car)
914 (Gulf solo II car)
924 (well actually it's a 944 soon to be GTS clone)
928
944

Posted by: URY914 Jun 9 2012, 09:05 AM

Posted by: c/s914 Jun 9 2012, 09:13 AM

I've been here for a while but just lurking

I'm also known by A/SP911 on that "other" webboard...

Stacy

Posted by: zymurgist Jun 9 2012, 09:35 AM

Looks like a 914 style Cayman to me.

Posted by: PanelBilly Jun 9 2012, 09:35 AM

The style works for me!

Posted by: ClayPerrine Jun 9 2012, 10:46 PM

I have always had this weird idea lurking in the back of my head.....

Take a front wrecked 914, and a rear wrecked 911 Targa of the same year and graft them together. Put the six in it, and call it a 197X Boxster.

Considering all the common parts, it should be somewhat easy. Match the shifter locations, splice the doors together, and graft the windshield hoop from the 914 onto the 911 front end. That way you keep the 914 top that fits in the rear trunk.


But I am not a body man, and don't have the required skills.

Posted by: c/s914 Jun 10 2012, 06:27 PM

I bet the inventor of photoshop had a bunch of these weird ideas rolling around in his head too and needed a way to express them

The only suggestion I have is that seeing that they have the same front suspension you might be better off finding a Chalon kit but changing the slantnose to regular 911 fenders ...keeping in mind that the wheel arches are round on the 911 and squarish on the 914 though

The only thing 911 (besides the engine)


in my "913" ...was where I traced my 912 popout rear window onto the sail panels. Actually, if you notice the picture with the checkered flag the window is more pointed which is the original Porsche shape. To try and balance the shape out a bit i've been adding black tape and seeing what it looks like from different angles as per the rest of the pictures.

When I finalize the shape I am going to cut out a vent in the depression to make it more functional

Yours in Motorsports
S.Chapman

Posted by: c/s914 Jun 12 2012, 05:00 PM

BTW kinda off topic (certainly nothing to do with Teeners, sorry) but demonstrating how a change to a B or C pillar can drastically alter a vehicles look ...do ya wanna see something really neat?

You see before I created the "913" ...I created a M3 clone from an old 325e:



Now everbody knows what a Coupe model of any manufacturer looks like, right? For the most part 2 doors and a trunk like shown here by a BMW M3:


...and everybody knows what a Audi Coupe, UR Quattro Coupe, and UR Quattro Sport looks like right?




I certainly do as I have owned three, and even though it has a trunk that flips up instead of what looks to be a hatch, I always have had a problem with calling them Coupes as they just have so much of a different body style ...or so I thought.

You see when researching of whether or not I could put the roof cap on the suedo M3 (The E30 M3 has a slightly larger C pillar than the standard E30) I started playing with MSpaint and came up with this:


With just an extra little bit of sheet metal Tada! ...a BMW UR sport!

We'll let me tell you if I had the time I would have grafted these flanks on my wannabe M3 in a heartbeat just to mess with people's heads more than my BMW X7 minivan already does I even have a license plate all thought up... UR2SLOW



S.Chapman
You guys are going to wish I stayed a Lurker