http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-car...e-914-6-gt.html

Built from a real six with lots of special attention and parts.
Cost $370k to build....makes me feel a lot better about the cost of my build.
2.8 liter 311hp engine
You get the drift...

Would be fun to take this one around block.
I'd like to experience the acceleration this car supposedly is capable of.

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Seems a bit steep

I just think cars and collection's like this are kinda a waste in a
Way being too expensive to really drive and use

They are amazing to look at but why would you lock a

"Beast in a cage "


https://youtu.be/IrkPbT13gGc

So it.s the opposite of shaudenfeeude?

I think its freakin cool....

Why does a bear piss on the woods?

Because it can.

It's a beautiful car, but price and value are relative things. Personally, I think that once you get past 100K, the numbers become meaningless.

It doesn't look like $225,000.00 to me.

But, what do I know?

I don't think Schadenfreude means what you think it means ...

We build $200K+ cars at the shop. Not 2x more fun than a $100K car but the parts really do add up quickly. One of our customers told me today he has 37 cars. Unlike me, even a $200K car is probably a smaller percentage of his net worth than the 2007 used Honda CRV I bought for my son. I do try to drive the shop cars any chance I get. They are made to drive. Trying to get in the 962 but thats a long shot.

The neat thing is I can do a 914 with a 300+hp 993 motor for a lot less. Won't be the same car but I'll be satisfied.

Yeah, that is a joke...or someone is on crack.

Cracker

Worth it or not is in the eye of the buyer. Regardless this is one very cool 914. Got to crawl around it at the last RennSport.....very cool.

I just hope it goes to a good home and is driven in anger once in a while

I got to spend a day helping with some of the wiring. What a great car, but $225K Now the other cars in their shop

Well.........I think it means glee or gloat at someone's misfortune.... I know I spelled it wrong.

Of course I'll defer to you Andy.


So the opposite would be frowning at someone's fortune....


Still a pretty cool car and yea....after six figures it's kind of meaningless.

And about those other cars in the photo, how do they get them stacked 3 levels high on those racks? Can't imaging using a forklift like they do at big marina storage facilities?

Pallet racks with wood floors and megga expensive cars stacked !

but how fast is the UPS delivery vehicle in that photo?

Do the fake ones have only 5 cylinders? For $370k, it would need something really really real.

A quarter million. Let me rephrase that...A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS! I'm gob smacked. That an additional $130k has been flushed down the crapper is beyond words. All post tax $ is the icing on the cake. The 666 5th Ave of 914s.

I don't often share threads with my wife. If we liquidated ALL of our savings we could swing it for cash. "Sorry Kevin, wrong color".

I'm just speculating here but a lot of the 'lost" $130K is labor and I bet the shop bills at $125-150/hr. But the owner didn't actually pay his employees what he bills customers. Granted, he might have lost potential profit since his car was getting work done and not a customer. Similar idea with hard part cost. Engine might have cost the owner $35K in parts, $15K in labor but the shop would charge a customer $75K. So the math may be a little fuzzy.

Remember, people pay a quarter million dollars for paint on canvas, shaped pieces of clay and fermented grape juice in a bottle, so if you define the car as art, It might be downright reasonable.

Not 'lost", GONE! More often than a not a lost item can be found, 'where did I put my keys'.

WOW!

Very pretty car, but with all the modifications, who cares if it’s an original -6? I think a lot of folks have done conversions that are also very nice, fun cars that are nowhere near these numbers. Many of us wrench on our toys as a hobby, so the labor is not an issue as it’s relaxation for us. I did mine as a fun project and not with the idea of making money from it. Much, much cheaper than spending money on a psychologist’s couch and the time spent with friends in the garage are better than sitting in some bar having drinks. Beer tastes best as refreshment in your garage.

Just because you spent X on building your dream car, does not make it worth a number pulled from air.

Ain't that the truth ...

Looks like a nice car. I am going to post the first picture in the fuchs wheel thread/poll ...

Ok
So since this entire thread is pretty much commeting
On a sale , ( which is right up my alley)


What is the car actually worth


Id say 85 k ?

That's as delusional as the asking price.

Got to aim high.

This is advertising for the shop to a degree, if sold too cheap what would his customers think about paying such high prices for their custom built 911s or other Porsche race cars?

There is no reason a '70 911 built more or less the same exact way should be worth "that" much more and there are about half a dozen shops building early $200K+ 911s and they have long waiting periods.


I think it'll sell in $150K to $185K range. As long as it is driven and not put away for nobody to see it again, that would be shame.

On the positive side, we may have a winner for COTM...

For some odd reason I bought a copy of Superyachet World over the weekend, heck I cannot even afford to waste $300 on a plastic kayak yet I was drawn to spend $9 on this magazine. The amount of money on these things is mind boggling. Winning the Megamillion lotto still wouldn't give one enough money to buy and maintain most of the ships in this thing.

So yes there are people with money that the normal person cannot understand or come to grips with.

Wonder what modification "Orange Crush" is "missing" to make the people with Singer type of budgets want this car?

Does it need better marketing to let prospective buyers know how rare or special it is?

Is it special enough or is it too close to your dare I say standard cookie cutter 914 GT recipe? No CF roof or CF fenders or a 500hp 4-valve air cooled motor like the what is supposed to be being built for some new Singer builds.

End of the day its a "custom car" built to someone elses taste ,that in it's self creates a limited market....the selling price is another down factor and that go's without saying.
I'am not fussed on it I have seen cars owned by members on here I like better bet they never cost that much .

I have seen cars owned by members on here I like better bet they never cost that much .
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Elliot s old yellow car

Coolest 914 ever imho

I'd rather buy a '66 Shelby Mustang and have a 100K left in the bank

I've got to agree as well. This is an unbelievably well-done car - I've seen it up-close in-person - but the build cost as well as asking price sound awfully high. For sure it is a worthy marketing showpiece for the shop and also must be a hoot to drive.

For that kind of money i would expect them to add back the black paint under the engine grille side pieces after the respray.


PS: And the black goo around the front shock towers ...

http://www.kellymossmotorsports.com/projects/orange-crush/

I called about the car and mentioned this...was told it would have increased the cost by 85k!

T

BTW adding a spare tire gas can to the rear trunk helps the car how

Would have rather seen a 100 Liter tank installed to get me endurance range. But when you spend over 100 hours on the bumpers maybe the 100 L tank and respective work required is to much trouble, so you add a small 9L to the capacity of your car. Total capacity in my GT would be approximately 61 Liters of fuel. Oh, the last 9L I have to pull over and fill the tank with to get back to the pits.

It's only worth what someone will pay for it. I can't imagine that there are a lot of seriously interested buyers out there (particularly that actually would want to drive it rather than just "museum" it).

For 200K, I would want it to have good heat, cold air conditioning and a good stereo.

The 911 body.


To me it's a very expensive cookie cutter. Sure the car is nice, but it's pretty tame. Lots of cool little touches, but nothing that really makes you go wow like the Singer engine, etc. For a heavily modifed car at this pricepoint I would expect more.

You are correct on both statements.

buy it quick - still time to get yourself entered in RR-VI races & run with the other high-rollers

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I was present for a large part of the build and can tell you the stated expenses are no exaggeration. The engine and transmission are amazing because Kelly-Moss has exceptional engine builders. There really was no stated budget on this build and almost every part is new. So yes it was very expensive
here is a link with some build photos I took
Build Thread

I thought it looked familiar:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...port&st=340

When you read the s3mag article linked in the thread linked above, the whole build comes into perspective

I would guess many among us would build something very similar if we we had the means. Thanks Glen for sharing your special insight.

Very cool machine

370k to build!

Musta been a Gubernment project...

About to head down the road of stripping my originally gold car that is currently red.
What is a good color?
I am all over the place.

Flared 5 lug, power plant will keep getting bigger until I die.


1) silver with a red Interior
2) modern, in your face HOC metallic gold
3) Black (but rick/Elliott already did that
4) red....
5) some cool pastel color

If I could do any color again it would be either a dark gray color (non-914) or polar silver from the 993. Here's what both looks like... and Dad's car...

The most rare 914 color of course



Strawberry

If I had a choice on my car.. GOLD It would have been..
I remember a local car back in the 70’s that was the Factory
Gold Metalic and it was amazing....