RHD 914 Options

[Unobtanium-inc]

Anyone ever seen this one, it was new to me.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-mar...rive-914-a.html

[9146-racer]

There was a red one in UK that I looked at with a good friend many years ago, but because of it's poor condition and price then, we declined to buy it.
Subsequently it was sold to another guy who advertised it for sale possibly 5 years ago.....did it sell? I don't know.
There is an article on www.356-911.com on a red car in Singapore.
if you look at that article there are copies posted of some photos from the very rare Crayford brochure, which incidentally is of my car.
cheers Ian

[wonkipop]

There was a red one in UK that I looked at with a good friend many years ago, but because of it's poor condition and price then, we declined to buy it.
Subsequently it was sold to another guy who advertised it for sale possibly 5 years ago.....did it sell? I don't know.
There is an article on www.356-911.com on a red car in Singapore.
if you look at that article there are copies posted of some photos from the very rare Crayford brochure, which incidentally is of my car.
cheers Ian

i've got a photocopy on file of the crayfords brochure.
was given to me by the guy who owned the saturn yellow metallic crayfords 914 here in aus, along with the engineers report.
i got given the stuff in the early 90s.

what you are saying is that mr. meng foong picked up a red car from england?
and it ended up with him in singapore quite some time post the 1970s?
and this was subsequently crashed and replaced by another body shell by him
??????????

all kind of important in untangling where these original rhd converted cars went and ended up.

and completely aside from your car which is RHD numero uno.
maybe? but i will not go into that, because that is still be investigated.
and it does not diminish your car. its just that there is two of them.
yours and something else that is here that cannot yet be determined. - conclusively.
both are significant. see EDIT.

if i lived in the UK i'd buy your car and end all this chit chat.
but i don't. but you know.....it is actually important.
the porsche museum should probably buy it to make up for their complete failure as a company to back the first person to back their cars----one norman hamilton of australia.
i think he might have even been in front of the USA entrepenuer max hoffman.
but don't quote me.
the point being - there was no RHD 914 because everyone forgot who they were and who everyone was.
the first two RHD 356 cars were built for australia and sent here.

EDIT
there may have been a right hand drive car pre crayfords.
but its just guess work at present.
and it may have come from germany?
but its just guessing at the moment.
and it didn't look anything like a crayfords car.
just another one of the those historical curiousities.
i think there are photos of it but i am still trying to track them down.