Dino vs.914, whats wrong with people Options

[geniusanthony]

Ok, so i am officially placing my first post (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) and here are my thoughts...Our beloved teeners are in an engineering sense an identical car to the Ferrari Dino. I mean this in the sense that the were both budget minded sports cars of similar size and performance...I am refering to the -6 models for closest similarity. same layout and intended consumer.
That being said I challenge you all to think this over and lend us all your thoughts on this manner and now the $100,000 question, do you suppose that if we painted our cars red, wore funny hats and red members only jackets would our cars be equally desireable????

[kart54]

OK, Can't resist, Thread semi-hijack.
From the same years came a handbuilt car made in very small numbers that will kick both the dino's butt and the 914's. I have always been amazed that the value of that car is roughly the same or less than a 914. The car has a 1.8 L four with dual overhead cams, 4 valves per cylinder and 145 horsepower in stock version. With very little work it will deveolp over 200 hundred horsepower and there are a couple of examples of it out there with 300+ horsepower. this motor came from one of the most famous race winning companies out there and was a collaboration with them. The mtor is still available today but is slightly larger displacement; has a gridle on the lower end to handle the additional horsepower and now has twin turbos on it.
The transmission in the later models is a 5 speed shared with the 2002 BMWTii. Car was built from 1972 to 1975.
It is a convertible designed in Italy but for the most part built in England. The parts for it are more readily available than the 914 (I own both cars). It won SCCA championships in 1974,1975 and 1995 with Bruce Qvale of Trans-Am fame driving it. Qvale's father, Kjell Qvale, was the North Americam importer.
Huffaker has prepared some beautiful examples of it for racing and to my knowledge no Huffaker car of this type ever lost a race or a championship (Bragging, could be wrong about that, just a little puffing).
There are presently about 1300 known, documented examples of this car around the world. When I drive mine, because of the design and the "J" badge on the car I continually get asked "what model Jaguar is that".
In good condition they sell for $3-$5,000.00. In concours condition they can be found for under $10,000.00 if you look hard enough. (Just like our Porsches, at that point, the owner usually has $30,000.00 plus into it.)
One more commonality with the Porsche, it usually leaves its signature oil imprint wherever it is parked for any period of time no matter how hard the owner tries to stop the leaks.
Anybody know what car I'm talking about? I was going to say what it was but think it will be more fun to see who guesses it.
Randy,
Ventura, CA