Rear Valance, Is this 914-6? Options

[DennisV]

Can anyone tell from the photo if this is the correct rear valance for a 914-6? I am referencing the Restorer's Guide to Authenticity, but the angles in the photos make it a little hard to tell. The text says

The four-cylinder car had this hole (tail pipe) several inches inboard of the 914-6 opening.

Given the condition of this valance, maybe we'll go for the M471 look (i.e. no valance). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[rgalla9146]

Alan Hamilton was a famous Australian F1 competitor in his day.

[wonkipop]

Alan Hamilton was a famous Australian F1 competitor in his day.

not F1

you are thinking of Alan Jones.
Drove for Williams.
World Champion 1980.

but alan hamilton did race and was very good.
raced in australia in touring car championship in late 60s and 70s.
he had a bad crash at one stage and it stifled things for him.

but the hamiltons were interesting.
his father norman was the first distributor of porsche outside germany after WW2.
he beat max hoffman to it with is distribution deal in the USA.
its why there were RHD porsches from very early on.
they were not for the UK they were built for Australia.

he may have been the last independent porsche distributor still standing in the late 80s when he finally fell over in the big recession. porsche "bailed" him oiut and took over the distribution here. they wanted to anyway.

he had a lot of very special cars in his collection.
i think the deal was he had privileges thanks to his father's early (earliest international) support for the company.
it went something like an annual overseas trip to the factory to discuss business and buy any car he wanted or took his eye.

when i went out with BC to pick up the 914/6 in the early 90s from a farm in rural victoria, sitting in the "hay shed" near it was a disassembled 917 can am car.
one that i believe never raced. i think it lives in the USA now. it was under sheets and covers and in crates and boxes.