470.29.00076 - Meaney/Hendricks FIA, IMSA race car, ready to race! Options

[flyer86d]

Doug,

Ah yes, I remember, Walt Hantsho joined NNJR with a 914-6 and had four lovely daughters. More than one married a 914 guy!!

Sue and I celebrated our 40th this year and I hear Bruce and Kathy their 30th.

Life changes somewhat after kids.

Glen, I first saw your car when Bob McClurg owned it around 1975. It was still in Ralph Meaney's Conda Green with GT flares and all of the GT bits. Bob didn't do much with it before he sold it to Jim. I'm guessing that Jim chopped the windshield and updated the body somewhat.

Bob was busy resurrecting a 914-6 street car that was wrecked in the front by clipping a nose that he got from my ex- brother -in-law ( and best friend ) Klaus Hilgers. He completed that car but I lost track of it. It had 4 cylinder brakes an an early aluminum case 911 motor and was Black.

Charlie

Charlie

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You need more rear tire

[gms]

You need more rear tire

I am only allowed to use 7"x15" wheels

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I cannot wait to get my car back on the track like yours!

[rgalla9146]

I wish I had spent more time with these ( NNJR) people at these events.
I met Doug and Jim Foster around 1982-83 and Fred Apgar a couple years earlier.
I went to 4 or 5 SCCA events with Fred and his wife with the blue 6
Because of them a 6 became the coolest car you could ever want.
To them owning the car (a racing car !) was just the start.

[gms]

Glenn, I first saw your car when Bob McClurg owned it around 1975. It was still in Ralph Meaney's Conda Green with GT flares and all of the GT bits. Bob didn't do much with it before he sold it to Jim.

I was in contact with Bob about 5 years ago, he was living in Iowa in the quad cities.
Bob wrote:
"I bought that car from a garage in Boston as a rolling chassis. It was rough… as raced. I don’t know if it was Meaney’s shop or somebody who had bought it from him."

I'm guessing that Jim chopped the windshield and updated the body somewhat.

I don't think anything has been done to the windshield everything still looks stock.
A standard windshield fits the frame and standard targa also fit.

[gms]

I wish I had spent more time with these ( NNJR) people at these events.
I met Doug and Jim Foster around 1982-83 and Fred Apgar a couple years earlier.
I went to 4 or 5 SCCA events with Fred and his wife with the blue 6
Because of them a 6 became the coolest car you could ever want.
To them owning the car (a racing car !) was just the start.

It sounds like there was a great group of 914 guys in NJ, wish I could have been there. I have met Rory, Ray, Doug and Freddie in person and emailed Charlie and Bob, all are knowledgeable and have been helpful in my research of the car.

[rgalla9146]

I was struggling to have a nice street car.
These guys were struggling to build race cars to compete with and to win.
I got to peek inside the tent.

[stownsen914]

I'm guessing that Jim chopped the windshield and updated the body somewhat.

I don't think anything has been done to the windshield everything still looks stock.
A standard windshield fits the frame and standard targa also fit.

Glenn - I think Jim Roach who owned the car before Ray removed the windshield and ran a low windscreen. I remember seeing Jim drive the car in that configuration once. Charlie may have been referring to that. It sounds like Ray/Doug put the windshield frame back on.

[Doug914]

I'm guessing that Jim chopped the windshield and updated the body somewhat.

I don't think anything has been done to the windshield everything still looks stock.
A standard windshield fits the frame and standard targa also fit.

Glenn - I think Jim Roach who owned the car before Ray removed the windshield and ran a low windscreen. I remember seeing Jim drive the car in that configuration once. Charlie may have been referring to that. It sounds like Ray/Doug put the windshield frame back on.

I can't swear we did put a frame on it, honestly. But for sure it had no front cage that followed the roof and down the windshield frame. Also I did the dashbar. And any other diagonals.

[Doug914]

I wish I had spent more time with these ( NNJR) people at these events.
I met Doug and Jim Foster around 1982-83 and Fred Apgar a couple years earlier.
I went to 4 or 5 SCCA events with Fred and his wife with the blue 6
Because of them a 6 became the coolest car you could ever want.
To them owning the car (a racing car !) was just the start.

It sounds like there was a great group of 914 guys in NJ, wish I could have been there. I have met Rory, Ray, Doug and Freddie in person and emailed Charlie and Bob, all are knowledgeable and have been helpful in my research of the car.

Yes it was a rare group for sure. And as I said previously, the most amazing thing was the quality of the driving talent everyone had . Initially, The incumbent 911 group did know what hit them, as the 914 (even my six) was still looked down upon and considered inferior. That didn't last long. Soon many 911 owners were buying 914's and spending money building 914 track cars to keep up. ...Maybe Charlie remembers Nick Ventura who had the fastest fully modified slick tire'ed bad ass car in the club when we started. Within 2 years my modified 914/6 was running rings around him. That next season he had his shop build him a 600hp twin turbo 930 powered 914/6 Racecar. With a crazy big wing. It was a bit of a pig ( we called it the Batmobile). I usually still ran rings around it with my nimble 2.8:)

[flyer86d]

Doug

The problem with aging is remembering the place but not the name. Nick Ventura had the fastest most bad ass 930 with slicks (before Bob Winer had his 84 Turbo built into a Ruf 3.4 by Gary Bohrmann). I remember when you said that you could drive around him in your 914-6. We were at an event at Pocono,running the north short course. I hitched a ride with you and you had a fresh 2.8 or 3.2 in your -6. We passed Nick on the short straight between the right coming off the trioval and the left hand in the infield. The look of disbelief on Nicks face I will never forget.

Most of us became track instructors. It was an amazingly talented group. We ended moving to a 911 mainly because it had a back seat and Sue and I started a family. We had just bought the green 911 when Laurel Townsend said at a PCA board meeting that we had to learn the evil handling of the 911. Actually, we found that the 914 was the teacher as when the 914 broke away, it happened much much quicker than the 911. We had a string of 911's including a 911SC 3.2 liter hot rod that was great fun but frankly, it did not handle all that well compared to a 914-6 or a 944 Turbo but so what. They were great times and there was a real depth of talent as Doug has stated. You should have been there!!!

Charlie

[gms]

Ready for the weekend!

[GaroldShaffer]

Ready for the weekend!

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[RoadGlue]

Oh hell yeah!!

[GaroldShaffer]

Great weather for racing had a nice time watching Glenn (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Mark (aka Bartlet 914) prepping Glenn's car.

[gms]

The tires were trashed but I didn't want to buy a new set that would sit for 6 months before they were used again still not a bad result finishing fifth.
forgot to post results from the last race...

[gms]

I found these vintage photos on the internet

May 1985 at Lime Rock (leading is Fred Apgar's 914/6)


May 1986 at Charlotte


July 1986 Watkins Glen

[flyer86d]

It looks like Bruce Jones driving the Apcar 914-6. He was the only one that wore glasses if I remember correctly. At some point in time, he bought Freddie Apgars 914-6. Great shots!

Charlie

[gms]

headed back to the track on Sunday
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