Richie Ginther's 914 race cars, where are they?, Anyone know? Options

[URY914]

Another site I belong to had a thread about Richie Ginther and someone asked what happend to his 914's. His shop was in Culver City Ca. I think I've seen photos of a -6 that has been restored and the owner drives it in vintage touring events.

Anyone know anything?

Here his is with EFR at the wheel....

[9146GUY]

Ok so you guys are asking about the old Ginther cars. Since I had one I knew a fair amount about the cars back in the day. Remember back then nobody cared about history, record keeping or for that matter documenting anything with something as simple as pictures.
In 1970 a batch of 6-cylinder cars that were prepped and raced in some of the SCCA divisions. As was noted earlier Alan Johnson and EFR were the west coast contingent. Peter Gregg and Pete Harrison ran the Southwest while Bob Hindson and Kendall Noah ran the Midwest. I don’t know where Chuck Deitrich got his car but he ran in the Central division. It later ended up in Freddie Bakers hands for his early SCCA days.
While I don’t know where all the cars ended up but I can speak for a couple of them. The CENDIV car, which was driven by Deitrich and was sponsored by MIDVO, the Porsche/VW distributor back then, was sold to Freddie Baker of Bedford Ohio and he and I both got our SCCA licenses by beating up on each other. It’s the car that ended up in Alan Kendall’s possession. I had purchased the Hindson car as my first “real racecar”. I raced it for a couple of years until I decided to move up to something a bit faster when I looked at and passed on Merv Rosen’s 906 and instead bought a Cosworth powered Royale sports racer. But that’s another story.
Glenn Stazak spoke up and said that he knows where 3 cars are and that 1 was destroyed at Blackhawk. The car that was destroyed could very well have been the original Hindson car because I heard that after I sold it, it was wrapped around a tree somewhere. It could have been on a track or it could have been on the street because I also heard it was put back on the street. That would have been a huge chore because there just wasn’t much to the cars. They weighed under well 2000 lbs. and had no frills on them. It did have the early all 7” all back spaced wheels on it and I remember having to put spacer blocks under the roll bar so I would be legal.
You might ask how I know that the car I had was Hindson’s car. Easy, I drove to Kansas to pick it up, paid about 2500.00 which was a lot back then and under the “PORSCHE” decals on the rear quarters HINDSON was hand lettered. Dead giveaway.
Ginther also was involved in the development of the 4 cylinder cars for SCCA in E Production. That’s when they figured out about the roll bar/cage and frame stiffening.

This picture is from a weekend at Nelson’s Ledges in 1971 or 72.


This picture is from an autocross about the same era.


Those were the days......