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Posted by: slivel Aug 13 2005, 05:17 PM

John's beautiful 916

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Posted by: slivel Aug 13 2005, 05:18 PM

Another shot

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Posted by: slivel Aug 13 2005, 05:19 PM

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Posted by: slivel Aug 13 2005, 05:24 PM

Last one.

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Posted by: Root_Werks Aug 13 2005, 05:27 PM

FYI - not a 916

But a beautifull six! I like the color!

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 13 2005, 05:28 PM

QUOTE (slivel @ Aug 13 2005, 04:17 PM)
John's beautiful 916

nice car!

but why call it a 916?
Andy

Posted by: Jeroen Aug 13 2005, 06:39 PM

looks like a nice clean build and an excellent color!

Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 13 2005, 06:50 PM

"John" who ?

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Aug 13 2005, 06:57 PM

Steve--is John's GT color Anthracite ? It's a tight car
marty

Posted by: slivel Aug 14 2005, 10:05 AM

To clarify, John Straubs car is not a factory built 916 but somewhat similar to Bob Gagnon's home built 916 (no longer his but sold in about 1992). John's car has many acquired authentic parts including a 916 gearbox.

Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 14 2005, 10:24 AM

would you happen to know the VIN ?

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 14 2005, 11:45 AM

QUOTE (slivel @ Aug 14 2005, 09:05 AM)
To clarify, John Straubs car is not a factory built 916 but somewhat similar to Bob Gagnon's home built 916 (no longer his but sold in about 1992). John's car has many acquired authentic parts including a 916 gearbox.

i would be interested in a list of authentic 916 parts on that car ...

Andy

Posted by: slivel Aug 14 2005, 12:01 PM

No, sorry I don't have the VIN. But next time I see John I ask him for more detail on the car. John is a long time member - over 30 years, I believe, (and past president) of Porsche Club of America, San diego Region. I've known him for the 16 years that I have been a member - he's a great Porcshe enthusiast and has some beautiful vintage Porsches. He has shown his cars in many of the Porsche Parades Concours events over the years. Yesterday he said that he is going to get back into driving events and I suggested that I enjoy running with Historic Sports Car - West and that he might too, so maybe his car will be out more often if the future.

Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 14 2005, 12:03 PM

QUOTE (slivel @ Aug 14 2005, 02:01 PM)
No, sorry I don't have the VIN. But next time I see John I ask him for more detail on the car. John is a long time member ...

i've known John since 1975...

Posted by: davep Aug 14 2005, 12:25 PM

Definitely not a 916, since it has a targa top.
Very nice 914/6 GT though.
Either 9140430749 or 9140431445

Posted by: carreraguy Aug 14 2005, 06:16 PM

Wow! Nice car. I didn't know he was in to 914s. FYI - John is also the PCA coordinator for Special Interest Groups; his contact info will be in the back of any issue of the PCA mag. His email is: vintgracer@aol.com

Posted by: neo914-6 Aug 14 2005, 06:35 PM

QUOTE (Maltese Falcon @ Aug 13 2005, 04:57 PM)
Steve--is John's GT color Anthracite ? It's a tight car
marty

and what color is that? It may be what I'm going to use...

Posted by: redshift Aug 14 2005, 07:48 PM

Please don't paint your car a mid-80s MB color.

Please paint your car anything but met. dark grey.

(as long as it's silver, or maybe a VW color)

M

Posted by: JOHNMAN Aug 14 2005, 09:48 PM

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authentic parts including a 916 gearbox.

How would you know? Is that what they told you?

916 gearboxes were (I believe) used with 906 and other mid engined race cars. These were modified 915 gearboxes and were not (to my knowledge) specific to the 11 or so prototype 916's.

It is a good looking (freshly painted) 914-6 track car. It's probably lighter than our track car.

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Aug 15 2005, 12:14 AM

Felix, anthracite= 1979 911/930 color, I can get the paint code # off my car if you need. The MBZ anthracite had a touch more gold in it / the Porsche= more black.

John, AFAIK, there were more 916 transaxles to go around than the actual 916 cars. AJR in San Diego had the transaxles listed for sale in '78-'79. I bought & resold several, and kept one for my six. Although the AJR units still needed some internal work, and a shift rod fabbed- everything was there including the specific rear housing that had the mount ears for the 914 ! These were all magnesium, but I run an aluminum case on the street.
Marty

Posted by: sixnotfour Aug 15 2005, 01:04 AM

John Straub , Mike Hagen, Jon Lowe have been known for years , for trying assemble 914-6 GT's from way back, factory parts . The Complete Kits were not easily obtainable, and alot of money for the time , Vasek Polack had most parts , but just wouldnt sell em to you , They have always been hard to obtain . Back in the late 80's a GT tank100liter listed for under 500.00 try and find one , even then.
I bought 2 sets of Gt door panels pull straps,and rear bumper and deck lid ,2-10k tachs ,Hood Pins. from Vasek's Karl Thompson, He told me to come back another day he didnt feel like digging through the stuff, he had been Ill.
They had NO front hoods or bumpers and valances, rockers left. Karl said they got used up in racing. this was late 80's, I was on vacation , If I lived there I would have been there everyday to get parts..The Web has made it way easier to research such things.

Straub's car may not be factory built at least I know it is built around factory Kit parts 914-6 GT. Hard to duplicate today. There are no more spares. only repo's

I have a factory GT rally muffler do I use it or sell it, cant run it it wont be new anymore??

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 15 2005, 01:26 AM

QUOTE (sixnotfour @ Aug 15 2005, 12:04 AM)
Straub's car may not be factory built at least I know it is built around factory Kit parts 914-6 GT. Hard to duplicate today.

yes, but i'm still not clear on how this makes the car a 916 replica ...

916s and 914-6 GTs are two completely unrelated animals ...
Andy

Posted by: ChrisReale Aug 15 2005, 02:15 AM

Andy, it doesn't. It aint a replica of a 916

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 15 2005, 10:14 AM

QUOTE (ChrisReale @ Aug 15 2005, 01:15 AM)
Andy, it doesn't. It aint a replica of a 916

that was my point ...

Andy

Posted by: Mueller Aug 15 2005, 01:53 PM

are those just the standard 15x7 cookie cutters??

that is one sweet looking car and the tire/rim combo looks perfect...too bad you cannot get a street tire just like those slicks..........

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 15 2005, 02:04 PM

QUOTE (Mueller @ Aug 15 2005, 12:53 PM)
are those just the standard 15x7 cookie cutters??

yupp, 7" x 15 cookies with 9" good year racing schlicks.
same combo i run on my car.
perfect fit for the GT flares all around ...

Andy

Posted by: JmuRiz Aug 15 2005, 02:26 PM

I'm guessing he meant to say 914/6 GT replica