The neatest variation on the "914 theme" was the 916/8 which was built for Ferry Porsche as his personal car. This "914" variant had huge flared fenders, a fixed roof to keep the body from flexing. The reason why the body flexed is that this car had the 8 cylinder engine from the Porsche 908 race car. Ric
>>From: Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> > >>What I find amusing is that in Paul Frere's most excellent book "The >>Racing Porsches" the photo of the cars the Porsche considered to be >>"racing Porsches" includes not a single 911/912 body style and yet does >>include no less than two 914s parked amongst the 904, 906, 908, 910 and >>917s. >> >>Jim >> |
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