NOS Wiring Harness? Are they available?, Or does everyone just preserve the original harness? Options

[stevegm]

I am preparing my '71 914-4 for restoration. It has come to the point to make a decision how to handle the wiring harness. Are they available for sale NOS? Or does everyone reuse the original one in the car?

I read that one of the builds used an NOS harness and NOS fuse-box. It said - "both courtesy of Mr. Sager." Although it was a six (Mine is just a 4).

Here is the link:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=78492

Thanks,
Steve

[patssle]

There's a guy on the Pelican boards that builds new harnesses for 911s. Maybe somebody can chat him up see if he has any interest in doing 914 harnesses. He would need an original to duplicate from though.

[mepstein]

There's a guy on the Pelican boards that builds new harnesses for 911s. Maybe somebody can chat him up see if he has any interest in doing 914 harnesses. He would need an original to duplicate from though.

It's not just the labor that's an issue. It's buying many spools of different colored wire and probably having some of those colors specially made. It's one thing to stock thousands of dollars of material if it's your commercial business but hard to do as a hobby.

It could be done cheaper if you did it all with the same color wire and carefully labeled the wires but not the way I want to go