The 914 race car arrived today, the 904 body is half built, but should be here soon. Very exciting!
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The 914 race car arrived today, the 904 body is half built, but should be here soon. Very exciting!
What's your project?
Put the 904 body on the 914? Or do you plan something more accurate?
PS: where did you get the body? The guy in Canada?
Olivier.
Curious, why not just do a Beck? Seems it would be easier than shortening a 914.
A couple of reasons.
1. Because I don't think it's been done before.
2. It's just me, but it's important to me that it is a Porsche, and when I do this, it's still a Porsche, with real DNA.
Same reason why I'm going to mount my aluminum 550 body on a 356 chassis. In the vein of building a "Porsche Special" rather than just another kit car, the world has enough of those.
Like skinning a rabbit, you can see the carcass in the background.
All the best, should be a cool exercise in creativity.
Keep posting this will be a pleasure follow.
Regards,
Mike
The body finally arrived, getting it was a nightmare with customs issues and having to be handled by no less than 4 different shippers, but it arrived and is safe and sound at Unobtanium HQ. It felt a little like X-mass morning.
The center seat 914 already gave up it's gearbox for the build and will now be cut to ribbons to test fit the body. My thinking is I would rather make all the wrong cuts on the right body, so when it comes time to fit the body on the yellow 914/6 I have worked out all the kinks. A trial run of sorts. I feel a little bad slicing up the 914, but it was so butchered already I figured no-one would ever bring it back, so rather than scrap it at least it's death will help the cause. The old saying of Porsche restoring holds true, some die so others can live.
Look for weekly updates, it's very exciting.