A Porsche in the woods you say? Options

[Unobtanium-inc]

Accessible only by ATV you say? I know it's not a 914, but thought you guys might like to see one more saved, in this case an early Pre-A.
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Adam

[mbseto]

At that point, you're just restoring it as a template to create a new car. It reminds my of the Stephen Wright joke (paraphrased), last night someone snuck into my garage and replaced all my cars with identical copies.

[1970 Neun vierzehn]

At that point, you're just restoring it as a template to create a new car. It reminds my of the Stephen Wright joke (paraphrased), last night someone snuck into my garage and replaced all my cars with identical copies.

Matt is right, what you have here is some metal that bears a strong resemblance to an early 356. When that car is reconfigured with new reproduction sheetmetal, period-correct interior components, and hard and soft trim items, virtually the only original piece on the car will be the VIN.

When it is completed, it will be no more a PORSCHE than the Beck 550 spyders or 356 Speedsters.

Someone with more money than sense will spend far too much money on what amounts to a reproduction automobile rather than a restored vehicle or even a "tribute" or "clone", since there will be virtually no Porsche DNA left in the final product.

And the final bit of irony is that the final purchaser of that "reconfiguration" will look down on a 914 and think that the 914 is "not a real Porsche".

Paul

[Catorse]

At that point, you're just restoring it as a template to create a new car. It reminds my of the Stephen Wright joke (paraphrased), last night someone snuck into my garage and replaced all my cars with identical copies.

Matt is right, what you have here is some metal that bears a strong resemblance to an early 356. When that car is reconfigured with new reproduction sheetmetal, period-correct interior components, and hard and soft trim items, virtually the only original piece on the car will be the VIN.

When it is completed, it will be no more a PORSCHE than the Beck 550 spyders or 356 Speedsters.

Someone with more money than sense will spend far too much money on what amounts to a reproduction automobile rather than a restored vehicle or even a "tribute" or "clone", since there will be virtually no Porsche DNA left in the final product.

And the final bit of irony is that the final purchaser of that "reconfiguration" will look down on a 914 and think that the 914 is "not a real Porsche".

Paul

Wow, you have a chip on your shoulder the size of Rhode Island. Get over yourself, lots of people like both the 356 and 914s equally. I have never heard a 356 owner disparage a 914 either.

and YES I own a 356 and a 914 as well as some other Porsches.

And yes they are all Porsches!

[1970 Neun vierzehn]

and YES I own a 356 and a 914 as well as some other Porsches.

And yes they are all Porsches!

You miss my point, when that car is reconstituted it will not be a 356, rather it will just look like a 356. Similarly, I've been to PCA events where the "cognoscenti" will fawn over a Beck 550 with a VW engine, that I will admit was well executed, but it is not a Porsche, it just looks like a Porsche.

I assume you are familiar with the term for "knock-off" high end timepieces, leather goods, designer clothing, etc.? Counterfeit?...."something false or copied that pretends to be genuine". That's what that car in the woods will be if it gets to be reconfigured to look like a 356. And someone will probably pay north of 100 large to buy it. But Porsche mania does not have an exclusive right to this sort of insanity as more than a couple very high end Italian cars have been reconstituted with little more than a few frame fragments and a chassis number.

And finally, I guess I must have a chip on my shoulder because authenticity, originality and integrity are highly prized by me when it comes to automobile valuation.

Paul