1972 GT Clone Options

[MarkV]

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[krk]

Well, it's a nice enough car, and it would cost quite a bit to replicate. The 916 reference is probably spurious marketing-speak. I'm with Anton on this -- I don't see anything 916 about it -- the most obvious point is the front and rear bumpers are wrong. (But I prefer the gt look, so I actually like the front better anyway - the splitter is an interesting addition -- I wonder if the bumper is real or fg.) 916's all had pretty custom interiors as well. Often leather, or that cool paisley interior we saw recently.

The interior looks like the single place that the owner could have spent more money/time completing. It looks like a pretty stock 914 interior with a change out of seats, instruments and rollbar. The driver's door still has the screw holes in it for the stock door handle (sort of cheezy). The instruments you normally change out on a 6-conversion anyway -- I'm not personally a fan of the white face look, and I doubt that porsche was in '72, but I could be wrong. I can't see a gas gauge anywhere but there aren't a lot of pics of the interior. The 916's I've seen pics of used a stock gauge under the dash where the console would have been.

Basically, it looks like a pretty nicely done 6 conversion. Some parts are hard to tell, of course -- not much detail on the engine/tranny combo (a newly built 3.0 w/goodies can be a 10K - 15K toy) or the actual suspension/brake goodies. To get to call it something like "gt clone", you probably have to do more work tho, as a lot of the details are not very close. (dashboard should be felt, door panels, etc)

There are too many colors in the engine compartment.

I do like the koenig's. Dunno if I'd use red tho.

It would be interesting to see better pics of the back pad. It looks like they sectioned it to fit the seats. It looks like felt/carpet on the sides, but I can't quite make it out. There's a nice new screw above the interior light that probably polishes up real nice with chrome polish. lol.

As far as pricing, this would be interesting if I were considering building a car with specs pretty close to this one. Then it's a build or buy decision. But I'm not, so others will have to chime in about the 32K reality check.

kim.