Nice to see our cars getting this kind of recognition at the most recent Parade in Spokane.
Has anyone seen this car? Looks like Adriatic Blue.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2082391
Nice.
Without a doubt a great looking car.
But the blue bezel around the gauges?
Not a big fan.
a Real stand up guy.....was fun to talk to...has an entire book on the build..really kool..awesome car...for those dollars you will need to see it in person..AND I love the Bezel....ohhhh Mexico blue..loved Spokane..!!Had an xlnt time with the Canadian folks..
Nothing against the car as a good looking and fun driver, but I don't see how this won an award as a GT tribute. I suppose it was the only one in the category.
The only thing I see in the samba pics that is "GT" on this car are the flares and the hocky puck horn button.
The dash has late style vents and that ignition key bezel is not original 914-6. Blacked out trim, etc, etc...
It's basically a nice flared hotrod 914-6 with a 3 liter and some other custom touches. But it doesn't even come close to being a GT tribute IMNSHO:)
Remember, the M471 cars were also GT cars, steel flares, spacers, 6" wheels. Not much else over a stock 6.
An M471 option 914-6 is not a GT to me. What makes them a GT to you?
The GTs were race cars with lightweight bodywork and interiors, chassis reinforcements, complex and expensive oil systems, twin plug engines and many other modiciations described with detailed parts lists in a sports purposes manual published by Porsche and extremely well documented in photos by people like Glenn Stazak and Armando Serrano.
The M471 option was simple, flares and wheels just as you described. They are a beautiful, wonderful version of the street 914-6. But those changes alone did not make a car into a GT. For those of us that have worked hard to pay attention to all these details, it is disheartening when someone, let alone PCA judges, fail to recognize the many differences.
I guess the word tribute carries more respect for the original to me.
If I was in charge of classing and judging cars, this is a resto-mod.
Tributes to me are far more accurate recreations than this.
If that's not what a tribute is, then I don't know what to call cars like Eric Shea's and Armando's.
Ok, I'll stop now...
dug... nail on the head +1
"The 15 produced in 1971 were originally intended to become racecars but most were eventually sold as GT look-a-likes for the street."
He says it right there... the M471 cars were GT look-a-likes. NOT full GTs.
M471s are very special cars. But with 33 real factory GTs and many more dealer GTs that were built with full race parts from the factory, I stand by my stricter definition of a GT tribute.
Obviously with parts scarce, there will be a spectrum of completeness. But a parade winner should be a pinacle of achievement, not just someone that slapped on flares and a pretty paint job with a later engine with single plug, MSD and red plug wires! If the rest of the car was correct 914-6 parts, then he firmly in M471 tribute territory, but he didn't even bother to get a factory 914-6 oil filler neck, or even a new GT repro from SMC.
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