914/6 GT prototype ? Options

[beltwerks]

Does anyone on this board have any information, photo's or links to the 914/6 GT prototype as pictured. Any help would be much appreciated.

Dave


(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/live.staticflickr.com-22800-1772049109.1.jpg)IMG_22161743863994 by stretch1985, on Flickr

[wonkipop]

i knew i had another image of the car in the first post here - taken at same time and place for launch of porsches 1970 racing season.
i located it in my files.



the image has a telling detail that gives away a little more information on that car.
jacking point in sill rocker panel.



these jacking points low down in the rocker panel are only found on the hand built 1968 prototype cars used for testing and assessment.
there were according to info i've read 48 914/4s and 20 914/6s built as prototypes.
they were delivered in three batches at three month intervals thru 1968.
from the few images i have found and filed of these protos there is a suggestion that changes were incorporated between the batches. for instance the earliest batch had cowl mounted fuel caps. later batches had the flip lids in the front trunk lid. whether all three batrches had the low jacking point is not clear. for instance the ferry porsche 914/8 had the high jacking point of production cars - that could have been because the protos by the time of a later batch incorporated that change or it could be as a result of the cars extensive body reworking by BAUR - fixed roof etc. but very definitely the lower position jacking points is something only found on the protos whether all of them or some of them.

there is more information on the distinguishing features of these prototypes in this thread regarding the 914/4 protos.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=375808

other cars that feature this jacking point location are piech's 914/8. the 914/6 prototype that was found in california. the protos were also used for early publicity photo shoots and feature in some of the early brochures and promotional material.


one thing you can say for sure about the car photographed in the first post is that it is not a production car. it is one of the hand built 1968 prototypes. likely modified after testing was finished so as to be an early form of the GT? but without the fully flared guards yet.

as a side note. in the photos often seen of the orange car in standard form in publicity shots with the SM 2383 plates you can also detect the same low jacking points in some shots. its definitely also one of the hand built protos. whatever the orange car imported into the states is - ie first production car off the line - its not the orange narrow body SM2383 in the publicity shots. that orange first production car in the states has the normal high set jacking poits of the production cars in recent photos of it.