The John Straub Porsche 914-6 GT is on BaT Options

[eric9144]

This hit BAT, https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-porsche-914-6-gt/ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)

[gereed75]

As I’m sure most of you know, there is additional info on this car included on Armando’s “definitive” GT site

https://pbase.com/9146gt/dealer_9146gt_race...153_john_straub

It is as authentic of a M471 modified car as there is out there. As much as I like signal orange, the fact that this car was color changed at the time of its M471 modification is a valid part of its true history. Thinking of changing it back would be a tough decision .would you return the Conda Green Max Moritz car back to its original Light Ivory!?

[horizontally-opposed]

As I’m sure most of you know, there is additional info on this car included on Armando’s “definitive” GT site

https://pbase.com/9146gt/dealer_9146gt_race...153_john_straub

It is as authentic of a M471 modified car as there is out there. As much as I like signal orange, the fact that this car was color changed at the time of its M471 modification is a valid part of its true history. Thinking of changing it back would be a tough decision .would you return the Conda Green Max Moritz car back to its original Light Ivory!?

^ Good point on the gray. While my aesthetic preference would be to return the car to Signal Orange, I do like it in the gray and it's part of the car's history. Hmm. Maybe I'd go back to orange for my time with it and let someone else redo the gray if they want it? I dunno. Nice thing is, either way, it's an exterior only. Unless there' a real need to redo the car on a rotisserie, I'd avoid that at all costs to prevent erasing the patina and vibe of this car, which has always been wonderful to me. "Perfect" 914s are on the rise, great survivors or simple well used and presented cars are getting rarer.

Earlier comments wondering how this car will do vs the Daytona winner struck me as the wrong way to look at John Straub's old car, just as so many nit picks do. I've raced against that car, and have seen it in so many paddocks at premiere events as a spectator. I have no idea how it would come through a PPI, or what it needs, but it's a super cool car with a lot of cool history and a lot of great parts installed in period. The idea that it might not get bid up to the level of some rough "so-so" restorations of plain 914-6s is wild to me.

Sad to see the confidence shaken by comments on that BaT thread, especially as they get tagged to that VIN "forever," and while I feel funny about getting involved in comments on a car for sale given my day job, I've thought about it this time as a number of people seem to confuse me our own Pete000 over there on BaT (my username is pstout, but I'm just about never logged in).

[pete000]

As I’m sure most of you know, there is additional info on this car included on Armando’s “definitive” GT site

https://pbase.com/9146gt/dealer_9146gt_race...153_john_straub

It is as authentic of a M471 modified car as there is out there. As much as I like signal orange, the fact that this car was color changed at the time of its M471 modification is a valid part of its true history. Thinking of changing it back would be a tough decision .would you return the Conda Green Max Moritz car back to its original Light Ivory!?

^ Good point on the gray. While my aesthetic preference would be to return the car to Signal Orange, I do like it in the gray and it's part of the car's history. Hmm. Maybe I'd go back to orange for my time with it and let someone else redo the gray if they want it? I dunno. Nice thing is, either way, it's an exterior only. Unless there' a real need to redo the car on a rotisserie, I'd avoid that at all costs to prevent erasing the patina and vibe of this car, which has always been wonderful to me. "Perfect" 914s are on the rise, great survivors or simple well used and presented cars are getting rarer.

Earlier comments wondering how this car will do vs the Daytona winner struck me as the wrong way to look at John Straub's old car, just as so many nit picks do. I've raced against that car, and have seen it in so many paddocks at premiere events as a spectator. I have no idea how it would come through a PPI, or what it needs, but it's a super cool car with a lot of cool history and a lot of great parts installed in period. The idea that it might not get bid up to the level of some rough "so-so" restorations of plain 914-6s is wild to me.

Sad to see the confidence shaken by comments on that BaT thread, especially as they get tagged to that VIN "forever," and while I feel funny about getting involved in comments on a car for sale given my day job, I've thought about it this time as a number of people seem to confuse me our own Pete000 over there on BaT (my username is pstout, but I'm just about never logged in).

I also get confused with people thinking I am Pete S. from the 000 publications, but I'm just a simple non-celebrity who has been into Porsches for a really long time LOL I have been using the name Pete000 on everything since the beginning of the internet.

Sorry for any confusion, at least we both have 914-6's! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

Oh and my vote is to respray this GT back to orange, but keep it track worthy!

[horizontally-opposed]

I also get confused with people thinking I am Pete S. from the 000 publications, but I'm just a simple non-celebrity who has been into Porsches for a really long time LOL I have been using the name Pete000 on everything since the beginning of the internet.

Sorry for any confusion, at least we both have 914-6's! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

Oh and my vote is to respray this GT back to orange, but keep it track worthy!

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LOL. Too funny, and Randy N. straight up didn't believe me when I told him you weren't me. I've wondered where your handle came from as, once I started getting questions I looked and, yep, it predates the publication for sure! So no apologies needed, and if we haven't met, hope we will at some point!

And: I can get on board with that plan. This GT would look incredible with everything exactly as is but in Signal with oversized white meatballs on the doors like the Marathon/Monte cars (I'd go no number in the meatballs, as though the car was fresh out of the workshop, then apply magnetic numbers as needed).

So long as it…stays track worthy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)