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[ClayPerrine]

Someone needs to get his facts straight!!! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif)

[neo914-6]

Unless authorized historical documents from Porsche, they are all "stories"....

Excerpt by: Dean Lewellen THE PORSCHE 914THE PORSCHE 914--MID-ENGINE MAGIC

The first issue was the appearance, which had to be approved by both
Porsche and VW. Porsche did not want the car to look like their existing
product line and Volkswagen did not want the car to look like any earlier
Porsche models. To minimize conflict, an outside source was chosen to
provide the initial design concept for the new car, which was formally
identified as the Type 914. The industrial design firm of Gugelot Design
GmbH, located in Neu-Ulm, Germany, was working on an automobile body shape
built from a foam core bonded to fiberglass panels as a sandwich structure
which had interested BMW, Daimler-Benz, Karmann, Porsche and Volkswagen as
a future automobile body production method. This design concept was a
front-engine coupe with flush fender lines, a recessed rear window and
elongated running lights capping the front fenders. The Porsche design
team, headed by Butzi Porsche, credited for the 911 Coupe and Targa
designs, changed the Gugelot concept car to accommodate the mid-engine
location and made other styling changes to suit Porsche's desires.

and pics I found on Rennlist...