This 914/6 GT tribute that Gaswerks recently built and displayed at Rennsport is apparently for sale. This looks to be a very well built hot rod.....

http://www.gaswerksgarage.com/cars-for-sale.html

They also have a nice looking '73 1.7 listed as well....not cheap $32K

That's pretty cool it has the headers I make on it.

Michelins?

I'm not a big fan of the color gold but it looks great with the black trim on the GT tribute.

I was just checking those headers out and thought "those look like Ben's work". Then I scrolled down and sure enough, Ben's headers. Great job and nice car.

There's something about a plain jane 914 like the blue one .... You don't see many with hubcaps and chrome bumpers either

Nice build!

Gaspare does incredible work, worth every penny

Love that GT tribute. Blue on is great too. Saw it on The Samba earlier today.

The attention to detail is massive on this build (gold GT).
Any guesses on asking price?
I know what I think, but curious what others think this car will come in at?

Notice how the headers were modified on the driverside by them.. There is a good story about that.. That's my worst nightmare when selling wholesale to someone who then retails it to someone else..

Very very nice car.

Guessing $100k. I’m not that buyer but I like the high end build for ideas that I can duplicate at my budget.


And nobody will be messing with my SS heat exchangers.

It’s one that ya would just call a “cute” fun car.

Indredible build. Great paint and so many details.
Tailshifter ? ! no rear sway

Yea, really strange. There’s a curve near the engine to duplicate the path of a tail shifter.

I saw it in person..............

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Something else odd with this no options 73 1.7L, it has center console with instruments?

Mid year and later all had connections for the center console even if it didn’t come with one. No wire mods needed.

I like the painted but not covered interior panels. I might try it in my car and see if the noise level is acceptable.

Not one of ben's welds. @MB911

I was going to ask.... Vintage PHAT. What model and size are those? Can't find that tread pattern.

Saw a couple of other interesting cars on the GasWerksGarage website.

1970 914-6 with "MotorMeister" engine for $87.5k.
Best deduct the cost of an engine rebuild for this one.
I would never ever trust an engine that had been through Motor Meister's hands.
Otherwise the car looks pretty nice.
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And an 89 backdate into RSR config...but with a pretty stock looking Moronic 3.2.
Again the car looks nice, but $186k?
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easier and better ..do a side shifter ...very odd..

TB 15 ?

Yes no idea why they wouldn't have.. Are they not 914 folks? Possibly not knowing any better..

Gonna say yes, good eye Mark.

189 for a RS clone seems crazy but have you seen what nice ones have gone for on BAT??

We've done them for that much but our would have a fully built 3.8 and lots of other cool stuff.

I'm not sure there are even any other tires available in that size and style so it wasn't much to throw it out there. They are on the blue max moritz gt and if I ever get my tribute car done, I will splurge for them.

No sound insulation would, somewhat educated guess given my red "turbo" car experience, render the car a short drive toy rather than all day drive.

Not sure I'd skip it.

US source,,,fyi they dont list all sizes for some reason

Having driven a few poorly insulated cars, I can vouch for the fact that the noise gets old fast.

There are some thin, spray on sound deadeners. I wonder if they would cut it down enough? If not, I could always go in and do the normal stuff. It would take 5 minutes to pull two seats and a couple small parts.

I don't see any pics of the front hood interior. I wonder if they reinforced to shock towers for the front coil-overs.

I like the "less is more" approach on the interior but I'm really confused what is going on with the trans. It's obviously a conversion car so no reason to use a tail shifter. Especially when they needed to hack the headers to get the shift rod to fit.

A lot of work and detail went into this car for sure; but I don't see a front sway bar either. Strange omission for a GT replica.

That rear shift rod has some serious bends added to it.
Would think there was a more reasonable way to achieve that.
The Gold Color is amazing though... Wish my car was that color.

30 years from now everything will be quiet! I too hate loud cars and loud motorcycles

Your onto the exhaust mods story..

Here is a factory 6 rear shift rod and one modified by Ralph Meaney
back in the day to clear an early aluminum 911 case.
Far more elegant a solution, especially considering the
use...
Can’t see they couldn’t have done something more
Like this for a contemporary car worth a ton of money.

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That's what is so great about World and it's members. Someone has usually done it before and arrived at a good solution. No need to reinvent the wheel/shift rod.

When my heat exchangers needed a small adjustment to clear the 3.2 case and Jwest shift kit, I sent them to Ben. The repair is invisible. My set was one of the first made and Ben used the info for future sets.

At the same time I bought that shift rod, I also bought a set of
Headers that Ralph kept as a backup to the sets on his cars.
I offered them as patterns for people looking to reproduce
Early headers, but there was no interest..

you are correct about the six shift rods,,, Unfortunately this is using the 4cyl. tail shift...yuk

It would be cool if you could post some pics.

I know the big mistake at our shop was putting the chassis and parts into their final finish, assembly and expecting everything to fit correctly. It was always made worse when a customer would supply their wheels late in the build, after custom flares were made. Shift linkage on a 911 is pretty straight forward but not so much on a 914 conversion car.


I do like the gold. I wonder if it's the same color that Porsche used on their NOS 993 turbo build.

I don’t get your point...
The 4 cylinder rear shift rod was similar
in shape to the 6 tail shifter....
As in fairly straight..
Can’t see someone had to bend the hell out of
it and then cut the exhaust to clear..
Modding the shift rod might have worked by itself...

Just my opinion of course.....

four and 6 rear shift rods.
Both pretty straight originally.

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These are the headers as they are now.
They spent a lot of years on my car just sitting.
Went on the car in the 70’s and sat from the early 80’s.
Car hasn’t been run since..

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the 4cyl shift linkange is not very precise, the 6cyl, is decent.
If it had a 6cyl, tail housing and shift linkage, it would have cleared no problem..

If you read what I posted, you’d see I wasn’t debating
the plusses or minuses of either...
Just saying there was a better way to mod the shift rod
And not
Make a mess and have to cut up the exhaust..
That’s all...

I got it, six would fit no prblem, they should have went to side shifter. see pic in post above
esp. for the $$$ they want

1973 Porsche 914 Price: 32500
Gaswerks Garage is pleased to offer this incredibly original, time capsule 1974 Porsche 914
finished in Olympic Blue! This car was purchased on May 16, 1973 at Alpine Porsche Audi in
Colorado Springs, CO as a gift for the owner’s daughter of Arvada, CO. All of the original
purchase and sales documents are included with the car. The original owner was a student at
the University of Colorado in Boulder at the time . There is a rallye plaque on the dash from the
University of Colorado Sports Car Club dated April 1974.

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