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

[Jonathan Livesay]

Is there some kind of important difference that I don't see between starting with a basket case 914/6 body and buying up every piece of sheetmetal that Restoration Design makes to stitch together a new car versus getting basically the same if not more original sheetmetal from a donor body? How little of the original needs to be replaced for it to still be legit?

[Superhawk996]

Is there some kind of important difference that I don't see between starting with a basket case 914/6 body and buying up every piece of sheetmetal that Restoration Design makes to stitch together a new car versus getting basically the same if not more original sheetmetal from a donor body? How little of the original needs to be replaced for it to still be legit?

I think we are talking about opposite ends of the spectrum.

One is an honest restoration.

The other end of the spectrum is FRAUD. Pasting a 914/6 VIN into a 914/4 body and deceptively trying to pass it off as a rare car with with upwards of $50k of "value" difference between them. What was rare was the VIN. The sheetmetal on the other hand is very common.

Now the question about value of that VIN comes down to all sort of intangables that some buyers value and others don't. To some, it might matter that the car was built up in final assembly by Porsche vs. the more common build up by VW.

As with most truly rare things, provenance matters and has a value. An attempt to fake that provenance in an attempt to deceive is known as fraud.