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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Bondo Bill Built - 914 Station Wagon
Posted by: preach Apr 30 2020, 09:38 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKjf08hunc
Ouch. And the guy that supposedly built it originally was named Bondo Bill...
Sorry I suck at embedding vids.
Mustie1 is somewhat local to me here in NH. Never met him but he does some cool stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKjf08hunc
been a while but I think ths is how its done (admin edit)
Posted by: VaccaRabite Apr 30 2020, 09:58 AM
Reminds me of a 914 Hearse.
Zach
Posted by: mepstein Apr 30 2020, 10:00 AM
God that’s terrible.
Posted by: porschetub Apr 30 2020, 01:37 PM
God that’s terrible.
and Darin said they did 30 of the them,I can't for the life of me see the point in it 
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Posted by: 914_7T3 Apr 30 2020, 03:44 PM
Why not just pick up a Civic Hatchback? Same Same! 
Posted by: mepstein Apr 30 2020, 04:55 PM
God that’s terrible.
and Darin said they did 30 of the them,I can't for the life of me see the point in it .He should have been put in restraints after the first one.
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 30 2020, 11:35 PM
Posted by: Frankvw May 1 2020, 03:39 AM
Hi SirAndy, thanks for sharing.
I saw member preach also posted it
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=345212
but this thing is so unbelievable it can have two posts ! :-)
Posted by: andrewb May 1 2020, 04:13 AM
Sorry but I quite like it 
but then I build hearses for a living so it kinda clicks with me. Yes the engine access is a disaster - and pretty much unfixable - and I'd do something about the side window treatment but otherwise - it's good. It even suits those wheels. Not sure about the nose though.
Posted by: JeffBowlsby May 1 2020, 08:10 AM
We've seen this 'sportwagen' car before...cannot remember where...Excellence was Expected maybe? DGVWP?
I always thought this was some factory experiment. Maybe not? Or maybe this one is a copy?
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Posted by: tygaboy May 1 2020, 08:17 AM
With a different window shape past the B-pillar, I think that could actually look pretty neat.
(I have two horribly rusted chassis behind the barn... maybe I should give it a go!)
Posted by: SirAndy May 1 2020, 10:18 AM
Hi SirAndy, thanks for sharing.
I saw member preach also posted it
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=345212
but this thing is so unbelievable it can have two posts ! :-)
I merged the two threads, no need to have twice the excitement ...
Posted by: preach May 1 2020, 10:32 AM
This thread, these threads??? need a real wagon. 
Posted by: Jonathan Livesay May 1 2020, 10:55 AM
Posted by: theer May 1 2020, 11:39 AM
Sorry but I quite like it
but then I build hearses for a living so it kinda clicks with me. Yes the engine access is a disaster - and pretty much unfixable - and I'd do something about the side window treatment but otherwise - it's good. It even suits those wheels. Not sure about the nose though. I don't hate it, except the nose.
Always liked the shooting brake look (still do). Reminds me a little of the Volvo P1800ES... and the Honda, as someone else said.
Posted by: Mueller May 1 2020, 12:07 PM
Needs GT flares then fix: the roof, the rear side windows by cutting the targa bar support, backdate the bumpers and convert to a water cooled motor
Posted by: BuddyV May 5 2020, 10:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKjf08hunc
Hmmm...…
Posted by: Minerva's 914 May 5 2020, 10:31 AM
Posted by: mepstein May 5 2020, 10:32 AM
X 100
Posted by: rhodyguy May 5 2020, 10:52 AM
Even fast forward was painful. The skinny pliers fighting the piece of rotten hose? Wtf? A pair of side cutters and take the fuel rails to the workbench for clean up. I think the engine drop video will be more entertaining.
Posted by: euro911 May 5 2020, 12:12 PM
Years ago, on the NARP forum, someone started a thread on modified bodies. Not the usual mods, like the Chalon, Beach Boys body kits or other wide-body 914s, but renderings that folks came up with in Photo Shop or similar photo editing apps.
Some pretty cool looking ideas showed up, and I P/S's the 'BB' as a station wagon (or 'Bahnhofwagen'). Unfortunately, most of the pix have been deleted from the NARP site, and my old HDD failed, so a bunch of different renderings I did were lost 
Never thought I'd actually ever see a station wagon, but just did - on Mustie1's Youtube channel. Although I think my design looked better, apparently someone really did make one ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/JYrrsEtVd2A
Posted by: Carbon-14 May 11 2020, 05:54 PM
A custom truck cap modified to fit ?
Posted by: Carbon-14 Jun 15 2020, 02:28 AM
Bahnhofwagen, ShootingBrake.
What would Porsche have done with the same platform, '77-80 ?
It was a bright green car, onsite here somewhere.
Drew a traditional roofline for a 914 Hatch, handle an 8' stud, lumber, in a pinch, the driver's targa glass a rollup now, like the rear side glass. Room for the puppies and duck hunting instruments, a picnic's setting, a wb stretch could be ok looking if not overdone. The side glass is tapered, there are two rollbar hoops, to strengthen the McP strut's rigidity as the bulkhead has been cut out and replaced with a removable floor panel for servicing the injected six, low rise intakes, turbos, for a flat trunk floor.
The targa's roof maintains the curvature and slope of the factory's, slightly tapering narrower as the roof moves to the Kamm ending, the heated glass sloped to match the lengthened sail's. It's a hatchback, for loading clubs, groceries, a runabout six. Keeping it light, 220 hp through a -14 transax would make for a sporty vagen. All the glass's edges converge, tapered, like roman columns, parallel looks worse.
The leading edge of the sail roughly tangent to the wheel's front curve, the trailing curve of the sail also tangent to the fender's radius above the tailights. Raised wheel wells front and rear, 17" Mahle replicas, big rubber. The tailgate is integral with the panel between the tail lights, hinged at the top rear lip of the roof, gas struts. Airbagged suspension for adjustable ride height, for the off road excursions into fields and rough terrain of hunting expeditions, fishing.
Btw, that rear hatch's glass is not flat, instead it's concave to follow the curve of the sail's trailing edge, more or less. The hatch is a composite layup, s glass, carbon fibre kevlar lamination, for rigidity and torsional strength, stiff, the glass near full width of the hatch.
I remember finding here, years ago, a low orange racer with a wing, a fox's nose, custom led foglights behind sandblasted safety glass.
Fuchsnase.
Very much like Bondo Bill's bumper grill, more rectangular, sticking out more, pointy.
Bondo's is more tapered, rounded, an inset grille, different cooling improv.
Expanding the model's line, limousines, convertibles, racers, pickups, caminos, there was a guy who chopped cut rebuild, hammering.
The TVR Zante that was posted, a similar concept, the styling way too rad for American markets in '71. Now, could be a great grand tourer if done right, several bosomy naked models to adorn the ' bonnet ' for a resurrection party, champagne for all.
Something like this.
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Long ago, another had the same idea, the curved detail in front of the rear wheelwell unflattering.
https://www.coachbuild.com/2/index.php/encyclopedia/coachbuilders-models/item/eurostyle-porsche-914
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