Interesting 914 Article I just found, Jan 04 Classic Motorsports Options

[Tom_T]

This is an interesting older 914 article from 2004, which I just found perusing the website of "Classic Motorsports" that I recently subscribed to for the halibut!

http://classicmotorsports.net/articles/porsche-914/

Enjoy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif)

[Tom_T]

Dave & Porsche914 -

Sorry, but you cannot just willy-nilly substitute on your own after the fact, a colon for a comma (I just double checked that it is in fact a comma), and change the who "interpretation" of the writer's speculated intent! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Think back to your basic English classes in HS &/or college - a comma in that placement means that all those items separated by commas and "and" or "or" are included in the referenced group - not first isn't but the rest are.

Had it been originally printed as a colon in the magazine, then Dave's "interpretation" would indeed mean that they meant that the 914 wasn't meant to be included in the group of other contemporary projects in the photo.

As I said in my post , I don't see any 914 in the photo once I could blow up the one Dave posted. So- in any friggin' case - Excellence's writer & editorial staff either made a grammatical error of not using a colon, or else they too thought that one of the drawings were of 914 a concept(s).

In either case - I don't really give a "Flier" about it, and NO - I still do not agree that anyone has shown any convincing proof that Gugelot had anything whatsoever to do directly with the 914's design - including Ludvigsen. I remain open to such factual proof, when & if that should happen - not theories & suppositions based on 2nd & 3rd party articles, internet chatter, etc.

IMHO - if Gugelot really did have such documentary proof, then they would've brought it forth long ago - perhaps in the form of a copyright lawsuit, or at least in a "Hey, we had something to do with the 914's design" article - & I do not mean in a 2nd or 3rd or 4th party tenuously claiming it it a book or article, or one of the numerous online misquotes without backup.

So as of now, I'm done - no, over done, with an argument about the "Gugie 914 design" theory! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

After all, this topic was posted to alert members to another 914 article out there - itself with a few errors, and instead morphed into yet another postulation of the "Gugie Theory"!

Nuff is Nuff guys - go (IMG:style_emoticons/default/jsharp.gif) something! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)

[SirAndy]

I still do not agree that anyone has shown any convincing proof that Gugelot had anything whatsoever to do directly with the 914's design - including Ludvigsen. I remain open to such factual proof, when & if that should happen - not theories & suppositions based on 2nd & 3rd party articles, internet chatter, etc.

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What we DO have, however, is this:

Inquiries with the Porsche Factory, personal talks with Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the head
of the Porsche Design Studios at the time as well as talks with employees of the Gugelot Company
did, however, not verify Ludvigsens theory. Gugelot was never commissioned with the Design of
the 914. Furthermore, Porsche did not use the Gugelot-Auto as the base or template of their own Design.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche:
"Gugelot never did anything to the Car! They had a car that had a few similarities with the 914,
that's all. The most one could do is to point out those similarities, but Gugelot had nothing to do with the Car.
It's always the same, there's a lot of talk and rumors, like when people say that my grandfather once worked for Renault ..."