Fantastic document has been posted on Youtube
Frankfurt IAA 1969 german TV full coverage
first Porsche 914 presentation
First time I see that film

The porsche 914 comes at 28 minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJlyPoc3Ls


Here the Porsche 914 segment


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzTIuU56O8g

Do you have any pictures of the 914 that was on actual display at the 1969 show?

I only have the one gray photo from DGVWPB. I'd be really interested in any additional photos of that car.

I have a suspicion in need to confirm (or not) ...

Interesting. It is a 4 cylinder with Fuchs.

The green car that is the "cover shot" for the second video looks like black steelies with wheel covers.

--DD

We discussed it in Germany as well. Nice video. Wish to have such a free Autobahn today

It's not without comments about the car: all things we now take for granted like the difficult access to the engine etc. And priced @ 12,000 DM, it was not considered to be cheap.

Funny moment when the 914 overtakes the Karmann Ghia!

@ Kaeferfreund: Great avatar! Should make a great T shirt as well!

Menno

FAKE FUCHS. Ugly hub caps. I like the euro front blinker. The small clear lights came on vs the whole yellow.

Looks like D-jet. I thought the euro cars had carbs.

Notice the edit when the guy did not get the Targa all the way in or secured? Then tried to close the trunk.

And the fog lights blinked when that car passed.

Nope, all 1.7L were D-Jet, that includes Europe.

Only the 1.8L had carbs in Europe and the 1.8L didn't exist in 1969.

He did not stow that top well.

-Steve

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Here is a picture of a 914 that should be the same as the one shown in the film.. Same registration WOB V 224

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No, not the one in the film.

I mean the one that was on actual display at IAA. The /6 up on stage behind the ropes. It may be yellow but it's hard to tell from a black/white picture.

I know the one you mean. But I don't have any other picture

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Yes, that's the one. I wonder if anyone has some more images of that car?

Here is another picture of the same car ? at the same booth ? Looks like the same booth (same rear panels) but Other wheels... But as the caption says, there were two cars shown at the exhibit

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And here is a capture of a film that was shot at the IAA ... yet another color ...

Looks like it is a car shot on the karmann booth as it is next to karmann cab Beetle anf Ghia

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Correct. I told just this per PN yesterday to thieuster

And two more pictres from different cars at the Karmann booth

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Johannes, what do you think? Is it the canary yellow one, which was used by Porsche for the "werksfoto" (official picture)?

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Great collection of IAA or other fair pictures until now. I have another one from the 1973 IAA:

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And those are two press pictures take at the IAA or sent to the magazines.

The WOB V 224 (green) from the video

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None of those were the prototype which is now a faded dull yellow. (Except possibly the first pic that Johannes posted; I can't really see the details well enough.)

The front turn signal lenses on the cars in these photos are either the standard production pieces, or ones that are quite similar to the production ones. The lenses on the prototype are the same beveled ones that are on the orange Piech 914-8.

--DD

A closeup of the first picture eliminates 914114, the car is not one of the known prototypes ...