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mstein95
post May 12 2009, 10:34 AM
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Stopped by to see my mechanic yesterday and saw this car on a trailer on his lot. He says stay away from it. All appearance point to a kit car on a 914 chassis but I did not get a good look as I took my mechanics advise and kept my distance.

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This morning I see the owner has posted a Craigslist ad asking for insight.
73 914 GT

The car does not look as nice in person as it does in the pictures.
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post May 12 2009, 10:51 AM
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Rare factory prototype....



















Notice I didn't say WHICH factory but bet the name of the car includes the word "Kit"
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post May 12 2009, 10:56 AM
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post May 12 2009, 11:04 AM
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bad ferrari dino kit may or may not be on a 914... maybe a kelemark?

anyhow, you are correct, worth close to nothing, and they are shit piles.

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post May 12 2009, 11:10 AM
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I think I've seen the picture of the rare factory prototype that you mentioned in one of the Porsche history books. Doors open butterfly style, right?
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post May 12 2009, 12:39 PM
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Are those five lug wheels on the aluminum adapters?

from the side it looks like someone glued the ass end of an early 70's corvette to the front end of an 80's firebird.

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post May 12 2009, 12:46 PM
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post May 12 2009, 12:46 PM
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post May 12 2009, 12:49 PM
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QUOTE(RiqueMar @ May 12 2009, 10:10 AM) *

I think I've seen the picture of the rare factory prototype that you mentioned in one of the Porsche history books. Doors open butterfly style, right?

The Tapiro Prototype. Which looks nothing like the car above.

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post May 12 2009, 12:55 PM
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Ohh that? Yeah that's the POS 5000, a very rare Scheisseboxer Edition at that.
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post May 12 2009, 12:58 PM
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Does that price include the Flux Capacitor?
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post May 12 2009, 01:51 PM
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Porvair ??

A guy had one for sale around here. Was a Dino kit car on a 914. I think he wanted about 10K.

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post May 12 2009, 02:23 PM
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I wonder why he thinks it's a porsche? It just looks like a kelmark midengine kitcar to me. Maybe I'm old and weird but that styling always looked good to me. I have a 914 but that kelmark always looked better than a 914 to me. I guess thats why I like gt fieros and gt40's.
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post May 12 2009, 02:25 PM
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It is a kelemark, and IIRC, they were built on bug pans with type 1 motors...
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post May 12 2009, 02:27 PM
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It's got the 914 popup headlights. Could very well be a 914 under there ...
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post May 12 2009, 02:29 PM
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That sure looks like a Kelmark GT with a few customized touches. Looks like it retained pop up headlights where as most of them had exposed or covered lights. Just do a quick google image search on "kelmark GT" and you'll plenty of them.

Value? Well there is one on the Samba for $5,300 at the moment.

As far as I recall however, those were built on VW pans, not using a 914 as a donor.
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post May 12 2009, 02:31 PM
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QUOTE(charliew @ May 12 2009, 01:23 PM) *

It just looks like a kelmark midengine kitcar to me.

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Except the front on the silver car makes me believe someone used that body kit on a 914 chassis ...
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post May 12 2009, 02:37 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ May 12 2009, 01:27 PM) *

It's got the 914 popup headlights. Could very well be a 914 under there ...
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So far I only see ones with obove pictured style of headlights when doing a Google search.

Could be a 914 under there, so combine that with the GT portion of the Kelmark name and maybe that's why this guy thought he had something special.
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post May 12 2009, 03:14 PM
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I have to go back again later today so if anyone wants me to check it out further let me know.

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post May 12 2009, 04:32 PM
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Kinda weird that he keeps his $80,000 - $160,000 masterpiece under a blue tarp out in the weeded area of a field. Must be some special mice livin' in that exhaust! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)

I'd take one of those Tapiro Prototypes though. Looks like a Delorean in the back. Was sick in it's day...
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