We are two months away from WCR 2017 and we need to get some trophies started by the participants!

Last couple years with homemade trophies were fantastic! Lets continue the tradition!

Categories:

Original 4cylinder - tygaboy
Original 6 cylinder - tygaboy
Water cooled Engine conversion (not just size but best overall job) - Cracker
Flared 914 - jrust
Furthest distance traveled - tygaboy
Driving Project - Mueller

Porsche Engine conversion (not just size but best overall job)
Coolest non 914
That Guy/Gal


I dont want to put this all on one person, I made 4 last year and it took a substantial amount of work. So if we can get more people to volunteer that would be great.

I'll take-on the "Water Cooled" award; however, there is no guarantee the winner will want it though!

Tony

Awesome! Thanks!!

Ask Tygaboy... dudes got skills!

He does not have too...Chris was on the thread earlier. He just needs to step up!!!

Tony

Geez, two project cars, a day job, a side job doing metal art and now I get shamed into this! By my "friends"!
Have I said how much I love 914 World?!?

OK, I'll do:

Original 4 cylinder
Original 6 cylinder

Let me get these going and if I have time, I'll take on others.

Heads up, they may not fit in the trunk of a 914. Let me know if that's not OK...

driving project or non-914... PM me on FB and we'll talk ideas

I just had an idea for making your idea fit in a trunk of a 914. we can do a joint effort project? :-D (since I know what it is! heh heh)

Speaking that most people are driving without a support vehicle I think its a good idea to make the trophy general trophy size. If your going to do something "Larger" then maybe just make it for the raffle prize

No worries, I'll scale them down a bit.

Being that "water cooled" engines are so damn efficient...my H20 trophy will be too. It will fit nicely in a small area...like a desk top.

T

PS: If I were to say my award would measure up to roughly one-quarter scale (or less!) to Chris's renditions...I don't just mean the size!

Perhaps we could integrate some cool looking back lighting to make up for the smaller scaled version

C'mon folks...help out here! To the top.

T

OK, so here's the initial design for the "Original 6" trophy.

I'm thinking I'll stack this on a strip to emulate the steps in the emblem, then stand it off a solid background and frame it in 1x1" square steel tubing.

All done, I'm thinking 3' wide.

Sound OK?

The second pic is a sign I did for a local school that'll give you an idea of what I'm talking about...

Chris: You ought to start a build thread for your trophies - shame the rest of us mere mortals.

T

Well, I don't know about that...
Anyway, here's a more final-ish version. Still some tweaking to do but again, you get the idea.
Should be pretty cool and, hopefully, something our winner will proudly display.

3' wide? Holy crap!

How about scaling it to something desk sized?

I'll do Flared 914 & furthest distance traveled

So you can win it?

He might get flared, but furthest distance traveled no way...

Stevend914 is driving his 914 from Sait Louis and Cracker Is trailering his RV from Georgia!

Thanks Jamie for stepping up! I take that as a step in the direction that youll be joining us!

Sign me up for the Driving Project award...doubt I'll be going to the event, but I can contribute something...

Checking in on trophies!

tygaboy has been posting some amazing progress in the main thread


Jamie,
I gave the furthest distance to tygaboy due to some details that came to light that needed his specific tooling. Any chance you could pick up "Coolest non 914" or "That guy/gal"?

Sure I'll pick up coolest non 914. I have done jack up to this point though just to warn you. I'll get something done though

If I were going this year, I'd gladly step up to the plate again. I fabricated about ten trophies for the 2009 WCR - but I don't think I'll be able to attend this one.

It was time-consuming, but it allowed for a lot of thoughtful creativity. Unfortunately, I didn't take pix of the finished products ... only some preliminary shots of some of a couple of them

Best Female-owned 914




Best Interior




Here a couple of video clips from the awards ceremony that Tony 'akavw' took ... unfortunately video resolution wasn't exactly that great back then


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/kEJ_jJYeI1o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/BhfN3bM4uyU


Just wondering if any recipients of those 2009 trophies can send me some pix of them? (just for posterity)

Following up on trophy progress!

How are you all doing! Dont spoil it to much with pictures, just a progress update is good!

I've completed:
- Original 914 4
- Original 914-6
- Distance traveled

Consider my "formal" trophy items complete.
(Now to finish the raffle/give-away tchotchkes...!)

Chris

No secrets here...the back is now finished - finally! Good parts "have their lives" for this tjingie...

T

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Is that one of those logos from the chineese $5 key fobs? I've got like three of them, Love them!!

Not to my knowledge. It was $$$ at our local Porsche dealer. I was trying to find a classy method of concealing the plug (nut + bolt + emblem).

PS: Sorry if you were not talking to me...

T

Yes I was talking to you!

Looks like Porsche lawyers got them to cease and desist, I cant find them online anymore.. Looks like Sierra Madre has em for $18 though.

I have in mind what I am doing for mine. Hope to get to them this weekend. The flared one I think will be absolutely sweet. The best Narp (not a real Porsche) I am still wrapping my head around. So jury is still out there