I thought that maybe the "tent" (in nylon?) around the car added a lot of static electricity that they wanted to lead off...


/Lars S

cool pics SirAndy.....Oh man to have access to those GT parts laying around in the third photo....look at those ventilated rear rotors sitting there

karmann stand at the Frankfurt Motor show 1973.
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looks like something the 4077th would have used

US bound car???

Those front turn signals on the foreground white car with 2 mirrors, seem to have lower wclear area as in a Euro spec front lens....Possibly Italian or other market. Italian cars had clear side markers BUT there was another market....can't remember which, that had amber side markers but a slightly different lens.....

914's bound for Japan had side marker lights too. Only they worked in the turn signal mode.

These go with the pics above, couldn't think of a better place to put them. These are from the Frankfort Motor Show, 1969.


They are like brm hubcaps!






Weird, looks like the battery is vented to the air filter???

Nope, that's just new and shiny plastic sheathing over the second + wire loom.

Ah, You are right, of course. I need to become more familiar with 914 wiring; I'm working my way from front to back.

I still am wondering what that nub is on the air filter..



Here are some pics from the engine bays thread of 1970 Neun vierzehn's very stock-looking (and super sweet - I must say I am deeply impressed ) 1970 1.7 .



-I'm not seeing what that could be...

The grey/white fan is pretty cool, too, in the Karmann pic.

OK, I am very confused! The drip tray looks like the later (post 73 version). How can that be?

Heater fan hoses are incorrect.

That error has been corrected some time ago.......

I have finally found some pics of the 4 cylinder engine production. They were made at Hanover. They aren't actually 914 motors since the exhaust is like for a 912e, but they are allegedly form August of 73 so? That's as good as I could find though, been looking awhile for these.









And on the test track at Wolfsburg

Notice the felt cover over the fuel tank.....

Is that Eric Shea standing there?

Love the wheel covers! Similar to those I got from Whitney in late '72. Thankfully, all of them fell of on the interstate!

Oops,just realized those are 5 lugs wheel covers! Must have been special.

Those engine pictures are AWESOME! They're definitely 914 engines. Three bolt heads are 914 2.0 only and the tins are 914 only. But the exhaust pictured in the last shot is 411/412 exhaust.

Super cool thread and photos. And I thought that I was the only crasy collecting photos. Good job.
Bill.

Look at the Ghia photobombing this 914 group pic in the bottom right corner

Factory official photo's

I would clarify that these are Porsche+Audi North America PR photos of 1974 model. Note New Jersey license plates.

Tokyo auto show 1969 I think.




Weird-looking front side markers. Also, the passenger door gap is really bad, like not fitting.

Door isn't closed. You can clearly see that in the first pic ...

I think you're right -I have an early door that does that, like tweaks out at the bottom; thought it may have been something of an explanation or a precedent as I can't figure out what is off with it.

I wonder what the license plate says? Same as this one.

Ah I got it, with google's kanji translator, it is "Porsche", "ポルシェ"

Am I right in thinking...the side marker lights were US ...BUT weren't Japan and Sweden or Denmark given 'side markers' also, which were slightly different or more like just reflectors? And also, didnt Sweden/Denmark also get a passenger mirror as standard??

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early prototype testing....or /8 testing.....or component testing... or ????

This may have been brought up before, but doesn't the sail trim look extra large in this picture?

Nevermind, just looked at the rest of the pics of this car, all is normal, must be light reflection.

It appears to be a reflection, making the trim look twice as thick.
Craig at CAMP

Not factory, but historical. Stolen from Reddit. From 1973.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Porsche/comments/6...amp;sh=3621a0d6

Seems like a good place for this. Video quality improves at about 1 minute in. There's a lot of footage of testing at what I think is the test track at Ehra-Lessien.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKRi01Z2TRY


The test car looks a lot like mine, a 70 or 71 Tangerine (I think) standard equipment car.

Oops, looking back, I see Larss already posted that...

I was looking through my old computer, and came upon some screenshots I took from another video, that used to be up on a German site called Autobilt. It's gone now but it had some additional shots of 914's on the lot waiting for transport and some test track footage. I wish I could find the video again. I'm not sure if I could have got these higher res..

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