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A lot of years ago (15+) I was looking for a chassis into which to install the modded powertrain and AA rebuilt transmission from my rusted out '73 2.0 chassis and came across an available chassis and body at BBR that was someone else's cancelled Monterey project. It already had wide Fuchs wheels, 5 lug suspension conversion, etc and I was very close to pulling the trigger on it. It wasn't long after the conversion had been written up in excellence and I still have that issue here somewhere. I thought it was a very Once I started running the #s on what it would take to finish the way I wanted to do it, I just wasn't flush enough at the time and it also would have been difficult to manage with me on the East Coast and them doing the finish work on the West Coast.
I eventually found in Seattle a freshly repainted '74 2.0 with a black interior but nothing else, which was perfect Had it shipped to me and then spent about 4 years of late nights, early mornings, and weekends moving good parts over from my old car, adding new, upgraded parts, sandblasting and repainting or powder-coating just about everything, to end up with this.
that I then took to dr914 for a final tune and alignment. Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Since this was a thread about convertible conversions, I do have a '79 928 Spyder that was a convertible conversion done in the '80s. It was someone else's stalled restoration project that I bought, did a bunch of work and upgrades to, and finished it up summer 2015. Build sheet is in the attachment below. It and the 914 are two totally different cars, but both a lot of fun!
Thank you for your updates.
The 928 convertible looks great and very appropriate for US coasts.
I only seen one prototype picture but never built by Porsche.
Maybe other similar BBR 914 convertible thry this post soon ...
I still have it here in Luleå. Still in good shape.
I have put in some carbon fibber Caterham seats to not fly around in the car while on trackdays and fixed the suspension and stiffened it up so that it handle the 3.2 l engine.
A more Analouge car is hard to find. Much more fun than the new ones that feels like a computergame
HaHa,
Washington State, I drove Gary down to pick up, the 914,,,we got halfway to I-5 and it blew up....Left it at a farmers place, "He said 1 week till I bury it"
We looked each other, What ! ? ..he said people leave cars here and dont come back and get em and he cant get rid of them , so he buries em.. OK ???
The 914, last time I saw it ...motor was out.....up on jack-stands...in Mercer Island , Washington..
6-7 years ago I was registered here under the username "AMC". I used to own a 1974 914 Beach Boys convertible conversion. I also owned 914convertible.com and Porsche914convertible.com
I ended up selling the car to a guy in Washington (may have been Oregon). Anyway, I was wondering who else here has or has had a 914 convertible? I'll try and find a pic of mine to post. I ended up shutting down the site and giving all of the info to a kid that started another 914 web site, I forgot the name it's been so long.
It was such a fun time in my life I just thought I'd post and see what happened.
Alex
HaHa,
Washington State, I drove Gary down to pick up, the 914,,,we got halfway to I-5 and it blew up....Left it at a farmers place, "He said 1 week till I bury it"
We looked each other, What ! ? ..he said people leave cars here and dont come back and get em and he cant get rid of them , so he buries em.. OK ???
The 914, last time I saw it ...motor was out.....up on jack-stands...in Mercer Island , Washington..
Wow! I drove that thing everywhere for a couple of years and it blew the damn engine only half an hour out of town?! I put thousands of miles on that trouble free. Now 19, almost 20 years later it's not even back on the road yet?! Hell, I'll drive up there, rent a U-haul trailer, and bring it back if he wants to sell it. I've been thinking about putting an LS7 in a 914 for a few years now. I'll give him back what he paid even with the blown engine haha!
Wow! I drove that thing everywhere for a couple of years and it blew the damn engine only half an hour out of town?! I put thousands of miles on that trouble free. Now 19, almost 20 years later it's not even back on the road yet?! Hell, I'll drive up there, rent a U-haul trailer, and bring it back if he wants to sell it. I've been thinking about putting an LS7 in a 914 for a few years now. I'll give him back what he paid even with the blown engine haha!
If your serious, pm me .Ill give you contact info... I moved out of state , still have have his info... I havent talked to him in a while tho..
I am surprised that with all of that power and weight the convertible 914 does not wildly flex
I have used the Pelican parts stiffening kit. And made a low tube cage from the seat belt fix point forward to the front of the sill. This triangle and a stiffeninframe behind the seats does the trick.
01-06-2017, 11:11 AM
914 / 6 3,2 Wilco Speedster
