Spanish 914-6 GT Yellow, Could this be one of the missing GT's Options

[Quilmes]

I just got back from my trip to Argentina (4wks) and I found this old 1998 mag at a new stand with a Yellow 914-6 GT on the cover, so I had to pick it up for my 914 club members.
It says that it is the original 914-6 GT that the Porsche sold to Fernandez brothers. It raced in various events and even the Monte Carlo. It seems to have been restored, it also has dual driver side windshield washers, I guess to better clean the dirt and snow.
I had heard that this 914 GT had been wrecked in Spain, if you look at the inside photos you will notice that the ignition is on the steering colum, as far as I know the only 914-6’s that had the starter key on the colum are from 1972.

In all this car looks neat and it adds one more GT if real to our list of 914’s.

I will added the photos as fast as I can, also don’t shoot me for the bad stitching Thanks


Quilmes (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

[marankie]

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

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

[r_towle]

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

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

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