Factory Six Race 914, Up for auction Options

[ClayPerrine]

This factory six race car is up for auction on PCA Market.

https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/1970-por...4-6-race-car-1/

Looks to be a nicely done car.

No affiliation, just thought I would share.

Clay

[rick 918-S]

What if your car is a 6 and the right corner is crushed? You need to replace the wheelhouse. Is it ok to the purest here to continue to call the car a 6 or does that erase the car as 6 and it becomes nothing of value? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

The fact is there is only 3100ist factory 6 cars built. Over the years they were wrecked and rusted. If a guy owns a factory 6 and chooses to restore it in a manor using "Like - Kind - and Quality" parts how does it matter how many parts are needed. It is still a restoration or repair of a rightfully owed factory 6. How you choose to value it personally does not change the fact that when a limited production car becomes rare enough and either rusted or damaged enough (or both) it become worth the investment to repair the car. Sometimes it takes a lot of parts, sometimes it doesn't.

[Superhawk996]

What if your car is a 6 and the right corner is crushed? You need to replace the wheelhouse. Is it ok to the purest here to continue to call the car a 6 or does that erase the car as. 6 and it becomes nothing of value? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I don't think so. Still has value as /6.

What would probably happen under Michigan state law would be that the vehicle probably would get an assembly title or potentially a new VIN assigned after that . . . if the letter of the law were followed. I'm sure there are plenty of shady people that would also just cut out the wheelhouse VIN and paste it into the new wheelhouse too - which would be illegal. A repair shop or dealer that got caught doing this would likely lose their licesnse.

But given that /6 door jamb compliance sticker would still be in place, along with Karman tag, combined with window VIN tag, and maybe a slightly crushed & crumpled /6 headlamp tag, I would suspect next potential owner would have enough of the story to accept what had happened.

And of course, transparency about the accident and subseqent repair would be expected right?

Value of the /6 could then be assessed on merits of what was left and how the work was done. Still a /6, but, no longer "original".