914 Coupe, Interesting concept Options

[Britain Smith]

Saw this picture on Facebook this morning...thought I would share. It looks interesting with the Sheridan front end.


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[McMark]

I have a 911 roof section at the shop and toyed with the idea of making a hybrid. Then I realized I had WAY more important things to do with my time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I don't think it's horrible.

[c/s914]

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I'm the owner (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339188792.1.gif)

I was waiting to smooth out the shape a bit better before springing the "913" on the world but as the "cat is out of the bag" so to speak ...here is more or less how/why I came up with the idea.

You see I've never been one to leave well enough alone
...turning a BMW 325e into a M3 clone, putting a "V" grille on the front of my wife's Audi TT, and of course one of my pieces d'la resistance the infamous BMW X7
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...Where I keep reading lips everywhere I go "BMW makes a minivan?"


Anyway, so one day while walking by my C/S 914 autocross car carrying a piece of blue bristol board I noted that it was the exact same shade of Gulf blue. Having just had a ride in a friends 328GTS I started wondering how that shape would look on the teener?
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But of course adding anything like that to a Stock class car is a no-no, but it got me thinking about what I could do to my 914-6 Road racing car (seeing that they grouped me in GT-1 because I had roll cage structure around my front mounted fuel cell making me what they called tube framed (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339190480.1.gif), yeah right...) So I got to chase after cars like this on the track: http://youtu.be/uU2QBEnFXuM

So the rebel in me decided to have some fun as I was placed in the highest class of racing (which is the catch all class anyway) so why not create something that may not be as fast as the 600hp Corvettes but would certainly make people notice me (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339188793.4.gif)
Thus was born the "913" which morphed from this:

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to this:

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I just can't decide whether to leave well enough alone now or to lose the signal light humps to really confuse people (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339188796.9.gif)

S.Chapman
New Brunswick, Canada

(pictures by Gordon, Harold, Kevin... Thanks guys!)