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> Someone interested in saving a real 914-6?, Rothsport Racing has to get rid on one in the next few days.
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post Oct 27 2020, 12:14 PM
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I will post pictures of the car as soon as I get them from Jeff. This one is the owners new 914-6

Rothsport Racing for anyone who doesn't know is one of those very special Porsche places where magic happens. Also know as Cary's Day "Job" for the past few years. It is a very high end race prep and support shop that also makes the engines for the Rod Emory Outlaw and the Guntherworks cars.

Jeff has been doing this for decades and one of his customers has had a 914-6 stored with him for probably decades as well. This customer is getting up there in age and finally decided to go ahead and get this car restored. So they stripped it down to the tub and shipped it down to California for an acid dip. ($5,000) When it came back they discovered that the front end had been repaired with an new front clip and looked like Swiss cheese. So it needs a new front clip put on the car correctly. The back half of the car according to Cary is perfect and "looks like it's going down the assembly line"

At that point the owner decided that he wants to be able to still drive the car when its done and he's not getting any younger so he had Jeff go out and find him one. (That's what is in this picture) it's a beautiful car with a 2.7RS motor in it. Jeff is now getting ready to ship this back to the owner.

The owner has instructed him to sell the stripped car or cut all of the 914-6 parts off of it that have value and ship them with the other valuable 914-6 parts that were taken off of the car so he has something from that car (probably end up as wall art (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ) So he is now working on scheduling the transport of the new car and all of the parts and has to start cutting or sell this in the next few days.

So this car is currently fully disassembled and in Tubs. It does not have an engine and transmission but Jeff does have an original 914-6 engine he would sell if you wanted it.

He is starting with asking $10k (I am sure because he has been paying to have it stored in the shop for over 20 years and that bill alone had to be well over double that.) I have talked with Cary and Jeff about the best plan for this car and we all have come to the conclusion that a new front clip from a 1970 914 is the way to go. Cary has the frame bench but is over a year out before he could get to it. If I didn't just get one car back from paint myself (and just picked up a race car for God knows what reason) I would be negotiating a deal on this but I don't have the space for the cars now and another one is not going to help right now. I am sure that I am going to look back and regret this but I am going to have to pass at this time but I don't want to see the car cut up and hope that someone in the community can work something out on this one.
You can call Rothsport Racing and talk to Jeff about the car at 503-822-5061

Let me know if I can do anything to help.
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Matty900
post Oct 27 2020, 12:27 PM
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Too many pictures to upload so here is a Google drive folder https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1f4S...223C5dMm15e_YO0


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post Oct 27 2020, 12:29 PM
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It had steel flairs on the rear and fiberglass on the front. The dip took care of the front.


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post Oct 27 2020, 02:38 PM
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I can't get into the google drive to look at the photos. I should not look anyway, I have no idea where I would put it.
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post Oct 27 2020, 02:40 PM
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QUOTE(Matty900 @ Oct 27 2020, 02:27 PM) *

Too many pictures to upload so here is a Google drive folder https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1f4S...223C5dMm15e_YO0

Google requires access before it will let me see the pics. Can you make them "public"?
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post Oct 27 2020, 05:12 PM
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QUOTE(BillC @ Oct 27 2020, 01:40 PM) *

QUOTE(Matty900 @ Oct 27 2020, 02:27 PM) *

Too many pictures to upload so here is a Google drive folder https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1f4S...223C5dMm15e_YO0

Google requires access before it will let me see the pics. Can you make them "public"?

I uploaded them into my 914Rubber account at its making me approve people. I have done that for all of the requests. Can't seem to figure out how to just make it public (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)
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post Oct 27 2020, 05:15 PM
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I will just post more up here so you can see most of it and then you can do the drive request it you want all of them. This kind of sums it up. Good in back. Needs new front 1/2 of the car


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post Oct 27 2020, 05:18 PM
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Here is how they "fixed it" that needs to just be redone with a better doner car from 1970


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post Oct 27 2020, 05:20 PM
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Factory 6 mount is great


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Hell hole looks great


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post Oct 27 2020, 05:30 PM
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And below


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post Oct 27 2020, 05:36 PM
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Vin is there. Not sure what the process is to transfer it to the new front clip but I am thinking it's something you document very well with the dmv and or police dept (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)


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QUOTE(Matty900 @ Oct 27 2020, 06:15 PM) *

I will just post more up here so you can see most of it and then you can do the drive request it you want all of them. This kind of sums it up. Good in back. Needs new front 1/2 of the car

That's some Ugly welding there... 10K without the motor and trans correct ?
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QUOTE(DANNYMAC @ Oct 28 2020, 09:59 AM) *

QUOTE(Matty900 @ Oct 27 2020, 06:15 PM) *

I will just post more up here so you can see most of it and then you can do the drive request it you want all of them. This kind of sums it up. Good in back. Needs new front 1/2 of the car

That's some Ugly welding there... 10K without the motor and trans correct ?

10K is the Ask but make whatever offer you see fit to Jeff 503-822-5061

Cary was going over this morning to look at the car and maybe get some pictures of everything they took off of the car.
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If someone does want to take on this project I have a complete 1970 with hell hole rot that I have been "saving" with a plan to do a restoration sometime in the next few years. The original bumpers are there and in great condition and as far as I know the front half is in great shape with no obvious problems, but these cars sometimes hold surprises.... If it would save a 914-6 I'd consider selling it, but not really looking to sell it under other circumstances. Not sure about price but I'm sure we could work out something reasonable. Hopefully someone will pick up this project and save it.
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Sure would be a shame to cut it up.
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Just spoke with Jeff, owner instructed him to cut it up so unfortunately this one is probably gone. So sad (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif)
It's scheduled for Monday just incase someone was on the fence
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QUOTE(Matty900 @ Oct 27 2020, 04:36 PM) *

Vin is there. Not sure what the process is to transfer it to the new front clip but I am thinking it's something you document very well with the dmv and or police dept (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
This is the VIN from the front fender, yes? Does that mean that the "donor" for the front was a -6, or the original car was a -6 (reference original -6 engine mount), or it was a merging of two original -6s? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Always interesting to see the things that happened to a car over its 50yr life.
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What a shame
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