Marry X-mas to the north eastler!

I just got this pic from my co-worker that went to the Porsche museum in Stuttgart.

Enjoy!

Dragan

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No letters on the engine grill - was that not factory, or not an early car feature?

Euro-market cars did not get the P O R S C H E letters on the engine lid grille.

And the tiny round mirror

That's the Dr.s 8 cylinder car.

Notice the flares, weird bumper tops, etc.

I thought that front wheel arch looked a little too round...

Dragon - change your title - there is no way that a post on one of 2 factory 914-8s is off topic.

Maybe add that to the topic title too, so others can see what it's really about!

Maybe I've been looking at mine for too long, but I don't care for the looks of the bumper pad, flares or round mirror on that one.....

Engine grill letters were US only. Car was marketed as a VW Porsche ROW

914111, one of the two Flat-8 prototype cars ...
http://www.914world.com/specs/prototypes.php

Round mirror was off the 911. Notice TWO DIFFERENT locations in the pictures. One is in the regular location, the other one is mounted ala 911 on the door frame edge

That second picture that 1970 Neun vierzehn posted does not look like it's the same car ...

The 8 has the quad lights and an orangish rug and seat inserts.


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That pic I posted was just to show a Euro 914 w/o engine lid letters.

Paul

Early photos from the PORSCHE magazine "Christophorus". The color pic was published in 1969. Note that both the red car and the b&w photo car show round mirrors and the b&w photo depicts a fully upholstered front trunk.

Paul

Tony's #11 car has the upholstered trunk.

Anyone else just in love with the idea of a flat 8?

Can you tell me what issue of Christophorus this is ?

tell me about it . talk about cruisin , that flat 8 must of made this car like a

cheetah .



but O' what could have been .

The color photo was in the English #86, April 1970 issue. There are two color photos on the back inside cover.

Don

Thank you very much ....

yep, it has a little round mirror.
I took this shot too.

No gas tank ?!?

Oh, the tank is there all right. It's just covered by an upholstered panel.

--DD

Frt triangle window rubber channel looks like it is recessd a bit , or just seems to be.

Jack

Those look about as useful as the mirrors in the 356C series...those things are useless!

Who needs to look behind you as you have a 300hp flat eight behind your head! I wonder if it has a LSD diff to get the hp to the ground?

BTW, here is the entry ticket to the museum:

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The black and white photos are of a prototype /4 that had the gas filler cap mounted on the passenger side cowl. Clearer pics can be found in Oct '69 Christophorus. This is just one of at least 3 studies Porsche did before deciding on the "under the bonnet" filler approach.
Don

Not a fan of the quad-headlight design, the weird bumper tops, errors and especially the rounded front fenders. Thank goodness our regular productions cars don't look like that.

And yeah, yeah all due reverence to the 914-8.

Sooooo. . Pontiac made a 4 cyl by cutting a 389 in half, could someone make a flat 8 by using two 4 cyl cases and moving from there somehow?

It's been done ...