"Rip Van Gustl"

Guten Morgen Wolfgang!

Andy

Still a mystery after all these years...

Damn Eric, you must be totally bored to dig up a thread that old.

After all the questions, the owner found out he was ripped, set off on a journey to find the culprits and was never heard from again.

Finally! A straight (well... consider the source... as straight as it can get), definative answer.

gt's were only made in 1970,rear truck shock area is welded nice up date,incorrect fuel tank cross brace, fuel cell conversion on gt fuel tank, wrong color head lite covers, non bosch cut off switch ,sway bar is an update that never worked out that good

Wrong !

it would help if you expand on your response. any body can say wrong. by 1971 factory effort turned off

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now here's some meat , pull out the 471 cars which had only flairs. the acutual race cars were called in reality renn optioned cars, Competition equiped, gt is only a race class in which the 914-6 renn cars race in

Now, what are you talking about?

all 914-6 cars were all production cars, some cars were special order, porsche had a sport package Renn) option that was available, in this package the cars were equiped different options. I.E. brakes, suspension, engine components, fender flairs,wheels. You could order different combinations for a renn package.

sports info for the renn 914-6 , go to aramandos GT site look under " 914-6GT technical Documentation and then go to Sports info for the 914-6 GT. all the different compoments for the renn package is there, reading german helps

Wrong!


9141430139
Factory GT, Project# 914/56, Raced at 1971 Monte Carlo


9141430140
Factory GT, Project# 914/57, Raced at 1971 Monte Carlo


9141430141
Factory GT, Project# 914/58, Raced at 1971 Monte Carlo

Now back to your regularly scheduled fake GT. Anybody know about this car?

Gustl?

Great pics Andy ! How about starting a historical picture forum. Perhaps organized by vin.

According to Gustl and the chart above this is a real 914-6 GT???

well ... did anybody contact the spanish club to get in contact with their president?
as I told before, I don't know spanish ...

the german guy contacted this spanish guy, but never got answer
maybe the contact information was bad - or the spanish guy just didn't want to discuss his car

I'm afraid I can't contribute more about this car ...

but I think some 914-4 parts on the car - as well as black headlight surrounds - won't tell us that it's a fake
referring to my infos it was a rallye car in the 70ies, so it wouldn't be very surprising that it got damaged / crashed
and I'm sure nobody gave a damn about using a cheaper 914-4 part instead of an expensive 914-6 part on a rallye car that made the same job ...?
we don't know yet when these parts came to the car and if anybody back then realised that this car could be worth much more in the future (currently, speaking of presence)
just my 2 cent ...

Gustl

Haha, this is a funny thread....nothing like someone calling Andy out...
Check with the bible first! Das Grosse Porsche/VW Book..

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Well guys. irrespective of its pedigree, it looks like a well turned out good looking car. Right color too. Tony, with respect to the rear sway bar set up, I can well relate to it. If you lower a 914 for racing and hit big high speed bumps like at turn 8 at Willlow springs, the top strut pivot point at the end of the sway bar hits the bottom of the trunk and becomes an instant hard bump stop. This will put you into the weeds. Believe me I know. And there are lots of (upward facing) bumps in my trunk, despite the fact that I have shortened the rear sway bar links from the shock bolt to the end of the sway bar. I have seen the swaybar in the trunk set up before, and this addresses the above problem, allowing full wheel travel (as allowed by the spring and shock). Especially for rallying, where you want compliant suspension to run fast on bumpy roads, this would be a good solution. I never did it because I did to cut holes in the trunk.
Martin

Hi Martin.

Martin,
Have you considered another old trick?
Lower the bottom shock mounting bolt by welding a new bung on teh bottom of the trailing arm....

Rich

I promise that I am not trying to start anything or trying to be a prick but this car has Black headlight surrounds? Just got me thinking thats all...

In case of 914.143.0139 we don't have to worry about "real" or not anymore ...

"send to the crusher 09.15.1972"

R.I.P.

Just not right...

you shouldn't doubt the originality of a car or its model/built year just from the colour of the headlight surroundings ... they are changed within a minute

I can't believe I missed this thread ........ great magazine find!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

That is what I was getting at. I just heard a lot to do with unoriginal headlight surrounds and thought if this known GT had black headlight surrounds then that most likely shoots that idea out of the water.

Some had "no" headlight surrounds.

Exellence did an article on this GT years ago. It stated that the original driver had a road dust problem and specifically requested the extra nozzel on the drivers side. I thought this a grand idea and I purchased the (not yet installed) nozzel and tubes to do mine. What a good idea!