4752911138 found on an BaT article from 2015 about rust on 914´s.

Found in Germany... ;-)
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Hallo Harald,

wo steht der denn? Sieht auf den ersten Blick nicht ganz hoffnungslos aus?
(Where did you see this one?)


Viele Grüße, Arno

Courtesy of @jaredmcginness tip.
VIN 4732903656

Found this one advertised for sale in Germany 06/2021. Unfinished restauration. Apparently 4x new fenders and a bin of parts.

4712914000

Thank you @Arno914


This car appears to have *real* 916 front and rear bumpers!

Those 916 style bumpers were quite popular here in Germany. Mostly seen on cars that were otherwise severely rusted and held together with tons of bondo.

Seller is asking close to 6k, considering the value of the 4 new fenders and the fact that it looks complete might be interresting for parts or an ambitious rebuilt.

For sale in Switzerland 06/2021. Early ´70-4 in original condition.

4702908321

Another one, this time a "6":

9140430244

Currently under restauration in Germany. PO had it stored for many years. Very little rust. On the Celette to check the front end due to a light hit in the past.
Not mine!

Cheers, Arno

Great finds there Arno! The 70 914/4 is the only AMAG 914 that I know of.

Cut up 722906775 today

Found for sale on eBay Germany today. Not mine.

4722906702

4732993500

To be sold at Copart Hartford on 12/14/2021

https://www.copart.com/lot/63460001/1973-po...914-ct-hartford

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Meant to add this months ago... 1971 #4712914510, parted out.

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4702905105

To be auctioned in Erie, PA by IAAI

https://www.iaai.com/VehicleDetails/4162650...amp;RowNumber=3

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Torque Thrusts 5x130 @sixnotfour

4762901970

Old offerup ad 1976 Red 914

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Copart Miami, FL (not mine)

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Old OfferUp ad


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4742913845
Looks like it was a junk yard rust bucket made into a vintage race car. Now it is a 914-6 GT tribute with a 2.4L in it....

Dead 75 914 looks to be a 1.8 in red. Parked in by a back yard in Michigan.

4752901945

Spotted in Cos Cob, CT, last week while on East coast vacation.
Late ´72. Not mine.
Hellhole patched up. Converted to carbs. Could need some (rust) attention.
VIN 4722921345 is already in the database, owner is a member here but inactive for over 10 years.

(Hope it is okay to post pics here.)

4732904465

Not mine.
Rests on an outdoor playground near Bonn/Germany. Cool place, we spent a friends birthday weekend there, sleeping in an old caravan in a huge indoor (!) campground.
www.basecamp-bonn.de

Cheers, Arno

Still some usable parts on that flower pot though

I pried out the chrome washer nozzles beetween two cold ones.

HARD CORE!

4742904263

Not mine.
For sale in Germany 05/2022.
Used to be a blue (Marathon metallic?) car. In some areas rust had been patched up but might be good for a full restoration?

VIN R.I.P. (Rust in pieces)


I had the pleasure of meeting Frank Rattasid owner of 86 Auto Recyclers and Nineapart in Wroxeter, Ontario yesterday. Nineapart was dedicated to parting out only Porsche cars.

Frank is retiring and winding down the business. He closed Nineapart in January and he is closing 86 Auto Recyclers at the end of this June.

Frank has five 914s left in his 86 yard and he let me go through them for anything I may need (except for door handles and instruments/consoles). He charged me fair rates for what I took - it was not a fire sale ($450 for 2 targa tops, 4 popup motors, 2 turn light buckets and one rear glass). At the end of this week he said they will be crushed and sent out to be melted for scrap.

The cars are not rebuildable. The rust is extreme on all of them, one has even folded in half. No interior parts worth salvaging. Most are stripped bare, no seats or interior panels. Only three have engines.

I don't need anything from these cars - I didn't really need what I bought either, but I always wonder if there is something else that should be saved before they start a new life as a piece of re-bar in a bridge... Not much time left... Any suggestions if something should still be harvested for the future of the community before crushing?



It is safe to consider these VINs gone.

4742907471
4732913913
4732904934
4742907764
4742900805



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Added them to the database, thanks for taking the time to get the VINs ...

IAA auction

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Earth to Earth, Rust to Rust this one is going back to its maker.
VIN 4732917401
Colorado Springs salvage yard for a little while longer.
https://upullandpay.com/search-inventory/ve...vinLocationId=5
Can't get the driver door open to check other plates. Currently black and very rusted. Some decent parts are being salvaged. Interior is almost all scrap, steel wheels, engine and FI still mostly there, trans just taken yesterday, trunk gone, front hood hit with a fork lift. Listed as a 74 on the lot, but VIN says 73.

Sad to see these go.
@SirAndy
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Hey @SirAndy Ive a puzzler. Was contacted to perform a PPI on local car FS.

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https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/d/sn...7613953509.html

Looked it up in the DB & it is listed but as a different car with no member name associated?

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@914werke
Could just be a typo.

The entry from 2015 was added by Jim McLeod who sadly is no longer with us.

Andy, would you add this VIN to the graveyard?

Not mine, and not much left either.

- VIN: 4742904369

- Details: Sitting dead out behind the barn. Rusted and stripped. Likely used as a parts care so that another one could live on.

- Engine Number: not there

- Chassis Number: 959601

- Build-Date (Sticker on drivers side rear door jamb): 10/7x

- Paintcode: L99A, Delphi Green Metallic

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Little in the way of parts remain. Every panel, if there, is rusted through or bent, usually both. It is a broken, rusted shell but not yet in the 914 VIN database.

Ouch. Ugly. VIN is a tad before mine and I think close to Big Len. Probably 10/73 DOT label.

Finally getting around to posting. All 3 cars were at the Nordstern Region's get-together at Maplewood (MN) Porsche on September 10, 2023.

First:
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Talked to the owner for a few minutes; IIRC he said the car was relatively new to him. Car is listed in the CANAM/LE database. Amazingly clean for a car that appears to have spent it's whole life in MN...

Next:
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Car is registered in Wisconsin and used mostly for autocross and other events. Carb'ed/mod'ed engine. Other mod's too as you can see from the frunk hood.

Neither car is in this site's database....

Finally, Scott Engebretson's '72:
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This picture is from a Nordstern Region event earlier in the year. He was also at the September get-together (you can see his blue car parked behind the green one in the previous post).

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Scott visits this site from time to time, but I noticed his car wasn't in our database...

FWIW, I didn't add any of these to the database as they're not "my cars."

9141430018 1971 Swapped in 3 liter. The original motor may be in Texas. The car has been in Brevard County, Florida since at least 1985.