Very odd 914 sighting yesterday...., ...with a VERY odd-sounding motor! Options

[horizontally-opposed]

I was having lunch with an old 914 buddy in Novato -- the guy who built the silver 914-6 3.8 that keeps popping up for sale -- when a gray/silver (looked like that old-school silver that isn't so bright) 914 went by. Too quickly to collect all the details.

Fairly stock looking (I think it was still on four-lug wheels), but it sounded like it might have had an inline four, like a Honda S2000 or Toyota motor, but I am sure that's not it. Could it be?

If that was a Type IV, I want to know what was done to it!

This was on Wednesday March 9 on Bel Marin Keys Blvd @ 1:00 pm or so....

Anyone here know this car?

pete

[Martin Baker]

I am sure I know the car, it has a Mazda rotary engine. Roger Hamlin just worked on it at his Sears Point shop. It is a silver 71, but it has the 5 lug conversion done to it, so it has 5 lug Fuchs on it. I saw it when my car was there getting the cage put in. He said it was a local car, and Novato is close to Sears. Maybe this was it. I know the paint on the car was very dull.