916 restored @ Canepa Options

[Cal]

These photos were posted on instagram yesterday from Canepa’s shop. Is this the 916 Brutus that sold for $1M in Paris last winter?

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

Brutus was certainly a 914 that was 'through the mill" and if any other 914 would have been scrap.

[Bleyseng]

Brutus was certainly a 914 that was 'through the mill" and if any other 914 would have been scrap.

Do tell! What is the history of the car??

[speedy914]

Brutus was certainly a 914 that was 'through the mill" and if any other 914 would have been scrap.

Do tell! What is the history of the car??

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/01/28/br...ts-car-history/

[Bleyseng]

Brutus was certainly a 914 that was 'through the mill" and if any other 914 would have been scrap.

Do tell! What is the history of the car??

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/01/28/br...ts-car-history/

46,000 original miles and it had all that rust work done on it? Sheesh, must have been stored sitting on wet grass under a tree.
Some people treat their cars like shit....

[larryM]

46,000 original miles and it had all that rust work done on it? Sheesh, must have been stored sitting on wet grass under a tree.
Some people treat their cars like shit....

'way long ago in 2007 - "Jürgen Seyffert" a 914-6 sportomatic owner in Germany wrote me that there were almost no old 914's left there 'cuz they "use salt on the roads" -

(which is why the market for usa export shells to europe was lively)

same is pretty much true of any 914 or 911 or japan car of that era that lived & was driven routinely in the usa midwest or rust belt

the simple rust test for any porsche of the day was to put a jack into the lift point and see how badly the body deformed around the jack point -

914Ltd did a great biz in longitudinal "clamshells" for that

during my IA & KS & autobody days i worked on & saw LOTS of those flexible hulks - today many have been aka "restored" if they didn't go early to the junkyard

- in 1972 i briefly had a '67 911 that deformed that way (it had lived as a daily-driver on the Chicago-Milwaukee milk run) - it was a "fast car" that i got rid of fast

- plenty of pics on this site of similar "rustoration" 914's over the last 10 yrs that require large checkbooks or understanding spouses

. . . . time was, the only old porsche worth considering to buy was one that had a documented life in CA-AZ-et al

i personally junked out two 914-6's of that ilk - both VINs are in the database (allegedly one is now on another chassis)

. pic: this Oregon car's entire floor pan was rusted out & i cut the car into pieces; & later i acquired a similar one in NV that came from AK with new floor pans in boxes (it actually ran, & got sold as a "project" for the ebay price of the parts) - "rustoration" 'way beyond my teacher's paycheck