A new article about the 914, some info I hadn't read before Options

[mmichalik]

Not sure if this has been posted yet. It just came out yesterday.
https://www.porscheroadandrace.com/heinrich...ie-and-the-914/
Has some interesting facts in it that I hadn't read befor so I thought I would share

Edit: just reread it and it appears that Andy Schmidt from 914World contributed to the article. Is that @sirandy or someone else?

[phillstek]

Great article and love the archival photos. Thanks for posting the link.

There’s no question in my mind that those drawings indicate that there was every intention to make rhd versions ex factory.

It was obvious to me when I did conversion on my car. The mirrored pedal box detents on the floorpan are a pretty obvious clue as well.

The seats in the drawing are seperate too and identical, not the weird bucket and bench seat arrangement that graced the first year of production.

The fuel tank shown in the above drawing is different to what went into production to my eye also. The production tank has the bulbous end on the right hand side that compromised the conversion. My feeling is that drawing came before the decision to build only lhd cars.