Someone interested in saving a real 914-6?, Rothsport Racing has to get rid on one in the next few days. Options

[Matty900]

I will post pictures of the car as soon as I get them from Jeff. This one is the owners new 914-6

Rothsport Racing for anyone who doesn't know is one of those very special Porsche places where magic happens. Also know as Cary's Day "Job" for the past few years. It is a very high end race prep and support shop that also makes the engines for the Rod Emory Outlaw and the Guntherworks cars.

Jeff has been doing this for decades and one of his customers has had a 914-6 stored with him for probably decades as well. This customer is getting up there in age and finally decided to go ahead and get this car restored. So they stripped it down to the tub and shipped it down to California for an acid dip. ($5,000) When it came back they discovered that the front end had been repaired with an new front clip and looked like Swiss cheese. So it needs a new front clip put on the car correctly. The back half of the car according to Cary is perfect and "looks like it's going down the assembly line"

At that point the owner decided that he wants to be able to still drive the car when its done and he's not getting any younger so he had Jeff go out and find him one. (That's what is in this picture) it's a beautiful car with a 2.7RS motor in it. Jeff is now getting ready to ship this back to the owner.

The owner has instructed him to sell the stripped car or cut all of the 914-6 parts off of it that have value and ship them with the other valuable 914-6 parts that were taken off of the car so he has something from that car (probably end up as wall art (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ) So he is now working on scheduling the transport of the new car and all of the parts and has to start cutting or sell this in the next few days.

So this car is currently fully disassembled and in Tubs. It does not have an engine and transmission but Jeff does have an original 914-6 engine he would sell if you wanted it.

He is starting with asking $10k (I am sure because he has been paying to have it stored in the shop for over 20 years and that bill alone had to be well over double that.) I have talked with Cary and Jeff about the best plan for this car and we all have come to the conclusion that a new front clip from a 1970 914 is the way to go. Cary has the frame bench but is over a year out before he could get to it. If I didn't just get one car back from paint myself (and just picked up a race car for God knows what reason) I would be negotiating a deal on this but I don't have the space for the cars now and another one is not going to help right now. I am sure that I am going to look back and regret this but I am going to have to pass at this time but I don't want to see the car cut up and hope that someone in the community can work something out on this one.
You can call Rothsport Racing and talk to Jeff about the car at 503-822-5061

Let me know if I can do anything to help.
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