Saw this posted on another site.

Nice factory GT.

It's the Spike and Jerry Show!!

If that's his real factory GT that he has, I inspected it and looked over in 1982 and passed it up. Asking was before everyone had to get in the game. Renault bought it for evaluation and simply parked it in the back of the warehouse. ...its one of those "could have should have moments " during ones life travels.

Looks to be the Alfa Romeo factory owned car. These pictures look to have been taken at Jerry's mechanics shop in Torrance CA. What a great car !

http://www.pbase.com/9146gt/9146gt_factory...1076_alfa_romeo

http://www.pbase.com/9146gt/9146gt_factory...lfa_romeo_lowes

http://www.pbase.com/9146gt/9146gt_factory...omeo_2010_resto

Awesome validation of the value of a 914!

Comedians in cars getting coffee shoot?
Spike has a 914/6 (Irish green skinny fender), my guess is Jerry picked it to show him he can always do one better

Who is Spike ?
Oh ! nice car too.

Who is Jerry's mechanic?

It's only 19 VINs earlier than my orange car !!!!
And my GT clone is gonna be white !!!!

I think Jerry has a handful of mechanics to service his collection. A friend of mine insists that Cox Motorsports out of Kansas used to handle some of his motor builds and a few restorations.

Spike Jonze?

Spike Ferensten; Cable TV-Esquire Network; Car Matchmaker show

Dang that is pretty car...perfect!

So glad to see him driving it!

I think this GT is one of the finest unmolested 914's left . the yellow Dehavlin GT was also , but a CA dealer used it and did some mods to it..

I saw this GT at the San Diego Porsche Parade..it is sweet..

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He has a full time mechanic near where I work. He always has some rare Seinfeld car over there. He had some crazy rare factory 356 Carrera Swedish Ice racing champion getting the engine sorted out not too long ago.


He also has a shop that does more restoration and metal work. I assume budget is not ever an issue.

The mechanic is the owner of Eddelweiss independent / Torrance Ca.,
but probably only working on Jerry's cars now.

Ed Helms look a like...

Just saw his show last night where he helps hapless car buyers looking for 15 minutes of fame into 1 of 3 cars.

Canepa has done some builds for JS too.

Do you know the names of these shops?

Thanks for all the other replies. I will followup with these shops and see if they need any sheet metal for upcoming projects.

My thoughts exactly..


Also looks like Jerry has some Bridgestone RE-11's on the car. Thats some good sticky grip!!

Please tell me they weren't smokin' those stinky cigars in that nice little car.

Adrian's shop is a mere stone's throw from my house. I pop in there quite often

I saw this car n San Clemente, CA back in 1985 while purchasing a six. Owner at the time, according to Jeff Zwart, was a Segrstrom. He and a friend came to look at the car I was buying and he told me the racing history. Interesting.....I never saw the car again until this thread was posted.

This car has racing history ?
What was the price back then ?
What is a Segrestrom ?

Never raced but said to be bought by Alfa Romeo to see what Porsche was up to, found by Kerry Morse at the Alfa factory (if memory is correct) Sam Cabiglio bought car and played with it for years then went up for sale 1987 for about $85k

Here's my story, in 83 I attended a PB Tweeks Porsche swapmeet in Signal Hill, Long Beach California. This GT was there for sale, the owner was Sam his business was the gray market cars from Europe. I looked it over / check it out for purchase at the swapmeet. When I discussed the origin of this GT, his reply was during an business visit in Europe he came across this in a corner of the Renault factory. Yes it was purchased for evaluation purpose and once they finished. It was simply parked in a corner of the factory and forgotten until he inquired and purchase it. At the time, Sam also wrench for Seinfeld too. Since I wanted to purchase the GT, wife talked me out of it since I already had a 71 European- 6....
Yes, back in those early days, Kerry had a shop in OC which is close to Long Beach.. since it didn't sell, I'm sure Kerry bought it since the asking from Sam was only 25k back in the days before " everyone" wanted to b cool to own a - 6.
Do I regret not buying it, yes and no . I waited 30 years later and now have one of 900 + TT. In life, you win some and lose some.

I believe the word he used was "Rally", not racing.
Segrstrom is a prominent Orange County family with plenty of resources

Torres had it at the San Diego Parade in 1992 ....

My brother in law runs the shop that does most of his paint and metal work, I referred him to Restoration Design a long time ago, if you want to know the name of the shop PM me, I don't want to get him in trouble... I have some cool pics and have seen some stuff I'm not allowed to post

FWIW, one of his "guys" that maintains the fleet is a 914 guy as well

Huh?

They (the guys who tend the collection) are weird about people knowing apparently.

I was told never to post pictures etc, don't really want to ruin that for him.

If /When people know that Jerry is there occasionally they'll start showing up for no other reason than to gawk.

Im meeting up with Jim's son at noon. I will ask him if he remembered anything that is interesting with the GT. It's funny how Jim and I were in the same neighborhood back way when. He made it a profession and I made it a hobby. In the end we both made out.