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post Jul 9 2010, 06:46 AM
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Wasn't SM2383 the prototype with the gas filler door? Maybe they airbushed it out for that postcard....
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Wasn't SM2383 the prototype with the gas filler door? Maybe they airbushed it out for that postcard....
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post Jul 9 2010, 04:28 PM
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QUOTE(Bleyseng @ Jul 9 2010, 05:46 AM) *

Wasn't SM2383 the prototype with the gas filler door? Maybe they airbushed it out for that postcard....


I was thinking that IIRC - that SM2383 was in one of the 914 books I have, but don't recall if it was that prototype, but I'll check later ?? when I get a chance.

OK - did it .....

In Brian Long's 2nd ed. 914 & 914-6 book with the color pix, the SM2383 plate appears on at least 2 different colored 914-6 cars - one is orange & the other is the color of the postcard pic (dark red, red metallic, burgundy, ???).

Perhaps the plate was moved around to different 914s, in which case they could've stuck it on the prototype at some point. Perhaps it was used like the plates here in the USA, which the dealers attach to various cars in stock for test drives?

Geoff - maybe you could find a pic of the prototype with SM2383 & post it here with a note to that effect? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Here are some other shots that I have of the Orange SM2383 -

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.... or was this the optional "filler" to which you were referring!!?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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post Jul 9 2010, 04:56 PM
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QUOTE(Bleyseng @ Jul 9 2010, 05:46 AM) *

Wasn't SM2383 the prototype with the gas filler door? Maybe they airbushed it out for that postcard....


BINGO!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Gas filler door on a maroon/red? 914-6 -

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... I still prefer the "filler" options on the orange SM2383!
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post Jul 9 2010, 04:59 PM
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... & Maroon SM2383 from the rear showing it as a 914-6 -

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> not sure if it's the same 914 as the front shot, because it has different wheels in this shot?

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.... butt, I still prefer the optional equipment "rears" on the Orange SM2383! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

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I wonder if they were the "Norwegian Equipment" on Pat Garvey's COA for his 72 914/4 "Fritz"?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)
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post Jul 12 2010, 09:00 AM
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Another 2 pager from Germany:

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post Jul 12 2010, 09:36 AM
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more on the red car....On the prototype cars, they painted them several times IIRC for all the press/marketing. Jacco provided these pics from a early European brochure. Gosh, I haven't heard from Jacco in a couple of years!


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post Jul 12 2010, 06:34 PM
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I was hoping this was my Raspberry car.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)


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post Jul 12 2010, 11:39 PM
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I was hoping this was my Raspberry car.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)


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Ha! I remember that ad from back in the day on TV, shot in the SoCal desert in part. Thanx for posting this Rick! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

They also had a similar ad back then which touted "LA to SF on 1 tank of gas" with great shots along Coast Hwy.! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif)

BTW - it was just one tank, but generally you had to stop for food & pee long before the 914 needed fuel. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

LA-SF up I-5 was more like 3/4 tank at 55 (yeah right - try 65 or so) because it was mostly a flat & straight shot up the Central Valley. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)
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post Jul 13 2010, 09:17 AM
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they weren't Raspberry, its PINK!
The tranny I am running is out of a low mile Pink 914. A lady's pride and joy with only 30k on it and she drives it out of a sunny day in Seattle....til a lunchtime drunk Tbones her going40mph....
So I got the tranny out of the car while the rest was crushed...about 10 years ago it happened. I had seen the Pink 914 every once and a while for years as how many Pink 914's in Seattle were there.
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post Jul 13 2010, 08:39 PM
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they weren't Raspberry, its PINK!
The tranny I am running is out of a low mile Pink 914. A lady's pride and joy with only 30k on it and she drives it out of a sunny day in Seattle....til a lunchtime drunk Tbones her going40mph....
So I got the tranny out of the car while the rest was crushed...about 10 years ago it happened. I had seen the Pink 914 every once and a while for years as how many Pink 914's in Seattle were there.



Alien sighting. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif) No vin # no photos on proof. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/assimilate.gif) Alien sighting.
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post Jul 16 2010, 01:07 AM
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Found another one of SM2383, looks like the red version/car, but hard to tell with the photo's lighting ....

- it's advertised as a 4 in this shot though ("914" only), since a sixer would have it named a 914-6 in their standard terminology of the day ......

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.... if I zoom in real tight, it sorta looks like it has that prototype gas filler door in front of the passenger side wiper, but very hard to tell for sure! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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post Jul 16 2010, 03:15 AM
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There were only IIRC 10 prototypes that were complete cars so taking a nice pic of a 6 car and labeling it a 4 for a ad is probably what happened. Who cares as its a nice shot...and as I said they changed the colors on the cars alot...
Buried in old posts is a lot of info on the Prototype cars including #4 (the first true six) unless its been deleted. It would be nice if all that info was put back in..
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post Jul 16 2010, 02:29 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) ..... it's probably the red -6 .... or six in red paint - whichever it was.

Why don't you start a new O&H topic on prototype 914s & maybe we can convince one of the admins to put it up as a nailed thread in here, so it doesn't get lost? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I've already started this & a couple of others to keep the O&H toodling along in Pat's absence. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

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SM2383 at Hockenheim as a 914/6 in 1969. note the flared fenders, GT style rear lid


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post Jul 17 2010, 05:06 AM
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QUOTE(Bleyseng @ Jul 17 2010, 11:27 AM) *

SM2383 at Hockenheim as a 914/6 in 1969. note the flared fenders, GT style rear lid


you should know that the license plate(s) were interchangable between different cars
S - M 2383 was used on various cars
this photo shows the 1st 914-6 GT "prototype" 914.0.43.0019


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QUOTE(Gustl @ Jul 17 2010, 05:37 AM) *

QUOTE(Bleyseng @ Jul 17 2010, 11:27 AM) *

SM2383 at Hockenheim as a 914/6 in 1969. note the flared fenders, GT style rear lid


you should know that the license plate(s) were interchangable between different cars
S - M 2383 was used on various cars
this photo shows the 1st 914-6 GT "prototype" 914.0.43.0019


(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) .... I thought that might be the case Wolfgang, & suggested that might be the case in an earlier post above, that they might use that as a manufacturer's plate & interchangeable, similar to how the new car dealers here in the USA have interchangeable plates to use on new cars for a test drive. Thanx for clarifying.

Bleyseng - what is #4 - the 4th 914/4 prototype? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

If so & it's here in the US/West Coast from that WCR, then someone needs to give it some well deserved TLC from that WCC pic, for such a unique early 9q4 prototype! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Thanx for posting those!
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