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Britain Smith
post May 29 2012, 04:30 PM
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Saw this picture on Facebook this morning...thought I would share. It looks interesting with the Sheridan front end.


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post May 29 2012, 04:57 PM
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That looks like a 9eleben with a 914 Sheridan nose ...
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post May 29 2012, 05:05 PM
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I saw it on Flickr and asked the guy for more pics of it.
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post May 29 2012, 05:11 PM
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post May 29 2012, 05:32 PM
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Part of me is attracted to it... I don't know why..maybe it's the Just the Martini paint job though. Looks kind of like they molded a fiberglass Boxster fastback hardtop on to it.
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post May 29 2012, 06:47 PM
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My Flickr friend responded with this..........

"He bought this in, I think, 2008, from New Mexico. It was white, but with all the fibreglass body panels (minus the buttresses) in place. It started life as a regular 4cyl 914, but the previous owner had installed a 911 engine and had set it up for racing. My boss painted it silver, and I actually applied a large amount of the decals. Most of the parts have been replaced/upgraded since he bought it - new suspension, diff, etc. etc. The buttresses are the newest addition. They don't add much weight, just a few pounds, and it does make the often awkward 914 design rather more palatable. He decided to name it the 913, the car Porsche never made :-)

He used it for the past several years for racing at the nearest proper road course track, but since winning a chequered flag, he's concentrating more on slalom."

Actually, here's an in car video from this very event last Sunday:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPpJV_U7UOI&list= UUIAvuB4U_wC...

You can see some other in-car videos on his Youtube channel.

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post May 29 2012, 06:48 PM
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post May 29 2012, 06:51 PM
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The car is in Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada,
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post May 29 2012, 07:18 PM
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seeing that it's not permanent, I think its interesting...although a bit odd, I wonder what made them decide to try it?
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post May 29 2012, 07:34 PM
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A Twisted Sister 911.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) It'd take a little getting used to but to drive a fast one like that, guess I could get used to it.
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post May 29 2012, 07:39 PM
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QUOTE(carr914 @ May 29 2012, 03:11 PM) *

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post May 29 2012, 07:47 PM
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QUOTE(URY914 @ May 29 2012, 05:47 PM) *

The buttresses are the newest addition. They don't add much weight, just a few pounds, and it does make the often awkward 914 design rather more palatable.


So ...... buttresses like a Fiero GT ...... no rear glass (or is the 914 rear window still there)?

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post May 30 2012, 06:43 PM
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It's like painting a 911 on the side of a VW bus...but I always thought THAT looked kinda cool.
Saw one once towing a 911 that had the same paint scheme.
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post May 30 2012, 07:28 PM
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I have a 911 roof section at the shop and toyed with the idea of making a hybrid. Then I realized I had WAY more important things to do with my time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I don't think it's horrible.
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post Jun 8 2012, 02:53 PM
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I'm the owner (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339188792.1.gif)

I was waiting to smooth out the shape a bit better before springing the "913" on the world but as the "cat is out of the bag" so to speak ...here is more or less how/why I came up with the idea.

You see I've never been one to leave well enough alone
...turning a BMW 325e into a M3 clone, putting a "V" grille on the front of my wife's Audi TT, and of course one of my pieces d'la resistance the infamous BMW X7
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...Where I keep reading lips everywhere I go "BMW makes a minivan?"


Anyway, so one day while walking by my C/S 914 autocross car carrying a piece of blue bristol board I noted that it was the exact same shade of Gulf blue. Having just had a ride in a friends 328GTS I started wondering how that shape would look on the teener?
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But of course adding anything like that to a Stock class car is a no-no, but it got me thinking about what I could do to my 914-6 Road racing car (seeing that they grouped me in GT-1 because I had roll cage structure around my front mounted fuel cell making me what they called tube framed (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339190480.1.gif), yeah right...) So I got to chase after cars like this on the track: http://youtu.be/uU2QBEnFXuM

So the rebel in me decided to have some fun as I was placed in the highest class of racing (which is the catch all class anyway) so why not create something that may not be as fast as the 600hp Corvettes but would certainly make people notice me (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339188793.4.gif)
Thus was born the "913" which morphed from this:

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to this:

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I just can't decide whether to leave well enough alone now or to lose the signal light humps to really confuse people (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.armsinc.ca-8728-1339188796.9.gif)

S.Chapman
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(pictures by Gordon, Harold, Kevin... Thanks guys!)
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post Jun 8 2012, 03:08 PM
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I think it's fine - but then I'm weird, I like my slant nose six and intend to keep it that way.

If you missed the Excellence article years back on Ron Mistak's 911 GT1 look-alike built up from a tube-framed 914, have a look at this photo. Then plug his name into a search engine...
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post Jun 8 2012, 03:53 PM
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Lines kind of like a new Nissan Z, but I do kind of like it. That BMW van is great! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)
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post Jun 8 2012, 04:47 PM
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I like the look, leave it alone.

Nice Job
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post Jun 8 2012, 11:43 PM
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QUOTE('73-914kid @ May 29 2012, 04:32 PM) *

Part of me is attracted to it... I don't know why..

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post Jun 9 2012, 12:30 AM
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959 headlights and you've nailed it!
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