Only 5 Factory Sportomatic cars ever build ? Options

[SirAndy]

Does that sound plausible ???

Urban Knutsson, owner of a '71 914/6 Sporto, writes a letter to the factory asking about the number of 914/6 Sportomatic cars produced ...

The reply from Porsche:

Dear Mr. Knutsson,

Thank you very much for your letter of October 10.
Referring to the latter and to our phone call of
October 9, we herewith inform you that of the type
914/6 Sportomatic we built a total of five cars for
experimental purposes.

Your car, which is a really rare one, was exported
to Sweden in February 1971.

In the hope of thus having been of some assistance
to you, we remain,

Sincerly,

Dr. Ing. h.c.F.Porsche
Aktiengesellschaft
Public Relations - Sports
i.V.

Jürgen Barth

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[SirAndy]

Porsche Panorama had this to say:

Porsche Panorama, October 1995, Page 84
"Gacek's 1993 certificate of authenticity from the factory indicates that there were 21 Sportomatics built in the 1971 model year" "An inquiry was directed to Porsche North America to confirm the correctness of these numbers and to shed some light on the 914/6 Sportomatic quantities. PCNA's answer was that there were, in fact, 21 914/6 Sportomatic cars built in the 1971 model year plus another four cars built in the 1970 model year for an overall total of 25 cars." "The majority of 914/6 Sportomatics went to European customers and it is not known how many are currently in the United States."

5? 21? 25?
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[ArtechnikA]

5? 21? 25?
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Andy

Those are not necessary conflictory...

5 for experimental purposes.
21 (or so) for 'other' (commercial...) purposes.

So the Swedish guy got one of the 5 'experimentals' ...
At least that's how I interpret that data.

We know there were some (all 3, I believe...) 914.6's entered in the ('70? '71?) 1000 (10.000? for some reason I recall that) 'Marathon of Endurance' at the Nurburgring (at least one of those u's should be an ü - I forget which...) and one won.

I've seen one in the US - a signal orange car, at Monterey in 1979 - I had no idea how rare it was then.

[Gustl]

We know there were some (all 3, I believe...) 914.6's entered in the ('70? '71?) 1000 (10.000? for some reason I recall that) 'Marathon of Endurance' at the Nurburgring (at least one of those u's should be an ü - I forget which...) and one won.

the 3 "1970 Marathon de la Route" cars were 914-6 GTs - not Sportomatics

but Porsche won that race in 1967 with a 911 R Sportomatic

(IMG:http://k43.pbase.com/u37/911r/large/24215925.File_02.jpg)

[SirAndy]

but Porsche won that race in 1967 with a 911 R Sportomatic

(IMG:http://k43.pbase.com/u37/911r/large/24215925.File_02.jpg)

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[Gustl]

The Picture doesn't show up for me ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

no problem at my PC (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

let's try this way ...