I suppose this is built on a 914. Anybody know differently?

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Is it worth even looking at for the price.

Courtesy wikipedia:

It's a kit car that has only a passing resemblance to a real 917. Built on a VW Bug pan.

That thing sucks....

According to the seller, it's a "PORCH".


Although from the images provided, i'm not sure where to put my rocking chair ...
Andy

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Gross.

I have to disagree with you guys. I think with a few mods this car could look much better

I don't know, i think if you threw the body on a tube frame and re-worked the front wheel opening. Then maybe throw a 928 engine n it and some 5 lug wheels. then you got 30K in upgrades and 5k for the car...ok maybe not. But you sure would get attention until you reved the bettle motor.PPPPPPPPP, pop, pop,ppppppp.

Yuck. It's a "Laser" or something like that. I'd rather have an unmolested Bug.

If you want a 917 replica/kit then at least go for something like the super clean and faithful one that was at the German Autofest a couple years ago.

The 917 is one of my all time favorite Porsche cars. The oil cooler outlet in my hood was inspired by one of them. This kit is really weird, and certainly not in my image of that awesome car. That said, road car safety requirements like bumper height etc don't give it much of a chance!

Here is one image of many of the 917K series cars.



The link to more images...

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/418/Porsche-917-K.html

There are lots more images out there and there were lots of different looks, but none like this "Laser"

Vern Schuppan's 962CR is the coolest Porsche racecar-to-street car I've ever seen

http://www.supercars.net/cars/1732.html

Now there's a kit car for ya!

I wouldn't put my grandmother's rocking chair on that Porch

Oh come'on. I love it, in a really sick way. It is So ugly, so overblown with scoops and shit. It screams 1970s in the most meaningless way. All the bettder that it is a 1600 vw. It should be SLOW, and LEAKY, and LOUD.

Honestly, I do like it, as much as I hated 'em back then. Its a joke, but a funny one.

I wouldn't let my cousin's old coon hound sleep under that porch ........

The Cap'n

My neighbor has 2 of those, he thinks I should be interested but I'm not.
Want one?

CLEAN OUTSIDE

CLEAN INSIDE

TO NICE TO SIT

DUAL CARBORATERS

SORRY BOUT THE LEAVES ON THE LEAVES

SHELL ALONE WORTH OVER 5000$


wtf? lol

Thinking about it, the people who sold those, even the people who bought them had a lot of balls calling that piece of crap a "917". That's like the people who name their Toy Poodle "Cujo". Sure, it's a car, but that's about as close as that turd's gonna get to sharing ANYTHING with a Porsche 917, probably one of the most impressive automobiles ever to grace a racetrack (or the roads between the seaport to Road Atlanta!) Well, I take that back. Both were scary to drive, albeit for different reasons ........................... And what does a "laser" have to do with it?

The Cap'n

U G L Y GULY

I actually test drove one in Woodward Ok. in 1983. It was a real piece of then and it was a newly completed kit. It rode like a bass boat turned upside down on wheels. It kinda looks like one too...

I know where all the molds and tooling is

If it would make it to 88MPH you could travel back in time (maybe on a flatbed?). It looks like a Bradley GT on LSD.

That's not ugly, that is the next step down, thats FUGLY!!!

A 917 in whatever configuration is still and only a real 917. Nothing else will compare to this old race car. I have never driven a real one and dont ever expect to. I have driven a recently completed LMK which I have pushed personally beyond 170 mph during setup. I can say that new school technology will prevail in stopping power and road handling ability BUT a 500HP Twin Turbo flat six will never match a 5 liter flat 12. Different animals.

A Lazer is a farce of an automobile. Enough said.

Back in the late 70s I went over to a place by Minneapolis to the place that made these kits. They also made a kit to put a tilt front end on a 78 chevy truck that was Mack truckish. I got the book to build one because I was going to put one together after looking at the build book I changed my mind.

917, yum. I got to sit in one and rev it a bit

even he thought it was yummy...

917 naked, oh my! sha-wing

drg

Sue's favorite. my woman has good taste

962 is magnificent also

here is another famous race car found at Monterey...
I posted all these pics as a public service to help erase that "other" image from your heads

Give us the location Mark. I will call in an air strike.

I was looking at a 917 yesterday when this British chap climbed in and started up the engine.

The 917 was this nice shade of blue with an orange stripe with the number 20 on the door.

I wonder if it was a REAL Porsche 917?

Eddie

Oh ya right...I tell you americans and you start passing the blame on the Canadians again...I know how this works

The mini truck molds are in the same place...whole kit and caboodle






is a caboodle anyways????

caboodle is a US national security secret conspiracy against all things canadian

In my opinion the Porsche 917-30 CAN-AM beast is the baddest assed porsche EVER....not even close...sorry. I've never seen another car that can change my pulse as fast when it starts....and I've never even sat in one....I have had my hand on the body work when one started up however....it's life changing.....IMHO......and that wannabe piece of shit isn't even the sloughed skin of the soiled ass of a real 917.

I don't know what people bitch about.

The Lazer 917 makes a Great Race Car - if you're racing a Pinto

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Sounds like the PERFECT car...

For the 24 hours of Lemons!!!

24 Hours of Lemons starts it's 2010 season next weekend at Phoenix, Az. The perfect antidote to all the cars at Barret-Jackson and the other auctions!

Built one of these kits when I was in high school. Great fun! Uses VW pan and Type 4 engine. Must say that it really wasn't fun to drive...consistently. In retrospect it was a great challenge to my problem-solving and fabrication skills. Engineered 4 Cadillac window motors to raise and lower gull-wing doors! Finally traded it for a motorcycle. Wow...good times!

There's a 917 kit on Ebay with a Ford V8 mounted in the rear. Look at the custom Air cleaner

I just threw up a little in the back of my throat... <g/>

Larouex

calling that ugly, gives the ugly community a bad name...