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krazykonrad
post Jul 20 2023, 09:49 AM
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The Corvette 914 is currently at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


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post Jul 20 2023, 09:53 AM
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post Jul 20 2023, 09:58 AM
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post Jul 20 2023, 10:00 AM
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I’m working on getting the VIN from the museum.
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post Jul 20 2023, 10:22 AM
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QUOTE(krazykonrad @ Jul 20 2023, 09:00 AM) *

I’m working on getting the VIN from the museum.

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post Jul 20 2023, 10:26 AM
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Not bad….interesting ideas
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post Jul 20 2023, 10:27 AM
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So the Vette is actually a 914?
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post Jul 20 2023, 10:29 AM
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QUOTE(Root_Werks @ Jul 20 2023, 09:27 AM) *

So the Vette is actually a 914?

Sorta, that story was covered here some time ago ...
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post Jul 20 2023, 10:32 AM
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QUOTE(Root_Werks @ Jul 20 2023, 12:27 PM) *

So the Vette is actually a 914?


There's some 914 under there somewhere. The story

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Styled by GM but hand-built by Pininfarina in six months, XP 978GT was based on a shortened and widened Porsche 914/6 chassis.
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post Jul 20 2023, 11:01 AM
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More info and photos on my page here, last car on the list: https://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/Exceptional914s.htm




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post Jul 20 2023, 03:01 PM
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Neat history on the 914/Vette. Weird, but neat.
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post Jul 20 2023, 04:35 PM
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That's an A6 compressor. A rolling turd that weighs 30+ pounds!
It's notable that it does not have a belt on it.
Probably didn't matter. Those didn't work very well back then even on R12.
Front seals were absolute trash...
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post Jul 20 2023, 05:09 PM
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I didn't know Corvette and 914 could be used together?
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thanks for the pics @krazykonrad

always been interested in that vette project.
sweet bit of USA car design from a golden age.
love the windscreen with the visible fold.
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think these projects (there was another one as well) were all intended to have the GM rotary engine then under development. this one would have got the smaller engine and the other prototype from around the same time would have had the big engine ( 4 rotor? ).
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post Jul 20 2023, 09:35 PM
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post Jul 21 2023, 02:31 AM
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I got in touch with Tom Falconer, the chap who helped rescue this car, and he said the following:

"It never had a GM viN , just Gm experimental engineering numbers. There was no trace of any Vw or Porsche numbers. It was the underbody shortened and widened. With 914 brakes , steering and suspension."

And he sent me this photo from when Octane magazine did an article on the car in Feb 2018.

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post Jul 21 2023, 06:17 AM
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The black trim at the bottom of the windshield is pretty wide. I wonder if the 914 VIN is still under there?
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post Jul 21 2023, 07:54 AM
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The black trim at the bottom of the windshield is pretty wide. I wonder if the 914 VIN is still under there?


The legal vin is the one in the right front shock tower. If they used the complete inner fender assembly, it should be there.
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post Jul 21 2023, 09:21 AM
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Am i the only one here who thinks that car doesn't look half bad?
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