Early last year I received an email requesting ownership and race history on a 914/6. After some back and forth I discover that the man I was corresponding with was the bass player for Coldplay (Guy Berryman).

I researched the car and found enough information to do an article (coming soon). Guy was so enamored with the 914/6 that he ended up with three. As you might expect he wanted a GT to go racing with. It took a month but we were able to assemble all the necessary parts for the conversion.

Working under a tight deadline Guy and his team finished the GT before the April running of the Tour Auto Optic 2000. I received an email from Guy this morning with a link to some pictures.


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That is cool Glenn! You can keep a good secret.

Good stuff!

Charlie

Very Cool....nice 914 and what a cool event to run...

check out here...lots of info on the event...

https://peterauto.peter.fr/en/tour-auto-optic-2000-2/

Cool, I cannot find him in the results, do you know how he did?

I will ask him

Very Cool!

I couldn't find him either but the list of entrants shows his car #118:

N°/ Grid /PILOTES DRIVERS/ NAT VOITURES / CARS /Moyenne /Coef

118 /2 /Lee MALONE / Glenn MOULE GBR / AUS PORSCHE 914/6 1970 Haute 1.06

Some driver lic info:
3.1.3 - Any person, or body is admitted:
If possessing a valid international or national FIA competitor/driver licence. Any competitor out of the EU shall
produce an authorisation from his ASN to compete abroad.
If the owner of the car is part of the crew, it is mandatory for him to drive at least during

Nice to see another enthusiast supporting the model....

First Magnus, now rock stars... Can't help but support the appreciation ($ and otherwise) of our little cars!

Can’t wait to see the article.
I’d like to know what parts you used and what color is the car.

Would also like to see the other two GTs

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Glenn,
Can you ask him why all the Coldplay songs are so whiney? My wife's a fan. Me, not so much...
Nice car though!

Sure Rob, I will have Chris sing you an answer

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/ca...t-car-collector

Not sure if the link will work, but he has quite a collection and the research into the history is one of his passions...

LOL

Cool Glenn!

Rob...the link works...very good info...nice collection

Wow, nice car! Obviously the man has good taste. He owns three of them.

Other musicians that own GTs include, Brian Johnson, (AC/DC singer) and Jay Kay ( Jamiraquoi singer). They have both owned them for years. Have seen YouTube vids of them driving. Jay Kay drives the snot out of his.

Very nice!

Cool tour.

He said they had a last minute engine failure so they were forced to use an under powered 2L. they ran the even in ‘regularity’ rather than 'competition'.
Also need to change gearing.

Hopefully he gets royalties from Amazon Prime, been listening to their stuff for the last few days while out in the garage!

Told my wife about Guy from Coldplay owning a few 914s and she thought it was cool.

Well that didn't take long! Now this car is up for sale at DYLAN MILES LTD

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Very cool car and one that I remember from early on. Grady, Brant, and Gint were the first Porsche people I ever met, and Grady was always happy to chat 914's with me at every meet. Man I wish I had the $$ to bring it back home.

The for sale site has some good pics of the car. Thanks for posting.

that's Grady at the wheel right ?

Yes

Glenn, do you know what brand wheels those are? Thanks.

Look like Panasports/Minilites.

My favorite.

And this:

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

Panasports or similar, Minilites the lug pattern does not intersect with the spokes. It is ascetically not pleasing to me. The form does not follow the function.