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]

I actually have a genuine brochure, bought many years ago at the Hustbourne Crawley Porsche swap meet. I have met the upholsterers and one of them furnished me with a couple of period photos.
I hear what you say about another car being built prior to mine by a German, very possible. But not by Crayford.
My car was built on 1st December 1969 then sourced by Crayfords at the Porsche distributor, Nordrhein in Dusseldorf early in December 1969.
It was finished in 2310 Tangerine , and fitted with leatherette/corduroy black seats, heated rear window.
There was another company over here (CC Classics) that did at least 1 car that I've seen. But I found it undrivable as they had'nt moved the pedals forward so there was restricted room.
This is turning out to be a great and interesting topic.

[wonkipop]

I actually have a genuine brochure, bought many years ago at the Hustbourne Crawley Porsche swap meet. I have met the upholsterers and one of them furnished me with a couple of period photos.
I hear what you say about another car being built prior to mine by a German, very possible. But not by Crayford.
My car was built on 1st December 1969 then sourced by Crayfords at the Porsche distributor, Nordrhein in Dusseldorf early in December 1969.
It was finished in 2310 Tangerine , and fitted with leatherette/corduroy black seats, heated rear window.
There was another company over here (CC Classics) that did at least 1 car that I've seen. But I found it undrivable as they had'nt moved the pedals forward so there was restricted room.
This is turning out to be a great and interesting topic.

the one i mention is not built by any old german.
it would have been factory. in the race department?
and its not necessarily before yours.
probably around about the same time.
and an entirely separate enterprise.
and in detail execution, absolutely nothing like crayfords. whole different approach.
(as i say its something to do with the aus distributor who had a lot of pull due to his special status with the factory-----and everyone is still trying to get to the bottom of it, but its nothing to do with crayfords or their efforts).

thats not quite the point i was making.
at all times crayfords are to be elevated as very important.

as to the firewall modification, there were several aus rhd conversions like that.
short legs, long arm job. they were done here early on and are hack jobs. there was a little apple green car that ran around down in my city back in the late 70s that was like that. originally it had come in with someone attached to the german consulate in melbourne (i believe that was the story). it was around for a while down here but it disappeared. i sat in it once. it was awful.

my own car was converted using a crayfords car as the guiding model.
the metallic green car.

but.........you have THE CAR.

i sincerely hope you find the right buyer for it.
as i say - if i lived in the UK i would be knocking on your door.
i know what it is.
but its completely a pain in the a to try and import a car into aus at present.
even harder than when i did it 30 years ago.

the porsche museum should buy it as a penance for their failure to make a rhd 914. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)