86 Stunden GT interior

[Paul Naberhaus]

This, from one of the /6 GTs the 86 Hour Marathon at the 'Ring.

[Pat Garvey]

Interesting location for the lug wrench. Guess it kept it close-at-hand & assume that style of wrench made tire changing faster. Anyone know if any of the drivers of that race/enduro actually had to pull off & change his own tire?

[Gustl]

I think I've read somewhere that they really had to change their tyres alone. A big advantage of the 3 Porsche 914-6 GTs was, that Porsche put very special tyres on their cars. This was one of the mayor reasons, why the 914-6 GTs won the race even if they had much less power that other cars (they used carbed 2.0 S engines with 160 HP).
They simply spent less time in changing tyres - and due to the "low-power-engines" they had no tech problems with the cars.

[gms]

My favorite option on these GTs... the rear shade

[gms]

A journalist test drives the car

[Gustl]

this might be the same journalist

[Gustl]

here's a super rare original drawing from Erich Strenger
as you can see at the right hand lower corner, I've bought it at eBay

[Gustl]

and my 1/24 slot car racer with Whitepoint body

[gms]

The Victory Poster

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all 3 factory cars

[Paul Naberhaus]

We're turning this into an 914/6 GT thread for the "Marathon" cars.

Here is the front trunk w/26.4 gallon fuel tank.

[gms]

914/6 GTs taking the flag!

[gms]

2 other 914/6s participated in this race:

#61 Walter Simonis/ Horst Hoier / Kayser - DNF bad accident
#19 Erwin Kramer/ Franz-Josef Rieder/ Degan - DNF crankshaft

[Pat Garvey]

That's REALLY cool - never seen it before! Suppose it was used for nightime headlight blindness protection. Maybe late afternoon sun protection fro the rear.

Does it have a part #?

[Paul Naberhaus]

From a factory publication........

[gms]

That's REALLY cool - never seen it before! Suppose it was used for nightime headlight blindness protection. Maybe late afternoon sun protection fro the rear.

Does it have a part #?

Not that I know of

[Gustl]

2 other 914/6s participated in this race:

#61 Walter Simonis/ Horst Hoier / Kayser - DNF bad accident


that's it :(

[Gustl]

2 other 914/6s participated in this race:

#61 Walter Simonis/ Horst Hoier / Kayser - DNF bad accident


btw - AFAIK this should be 914.0.43.0653 before it was sold to Kremer Racing

[gms]

Another off the web

[PJenkins]

I built a very nice replica of this car...alas it is now in Europe with it's new owner.

Peter

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#61 Walter Simonis/ Horst Hoier / Kayser - DNF bad accident

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Hattrick at 86 hr

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From the cover of Panorama

[Gustl]

I built a very nice replica of this car...alas it is now in Europe with it's new owner.

Peter

cool car !!

interesting detail: "your" car has the V-rollcage, the original car not (at least at the 86h race)

[PJenkins]

cool car !!

interesting detail: "your" car has the V-rollcage, the original car not (at least at the 86h race)

I know...but in the picture of the #2 car it does??

Peter

[Gustl]

in this picture above - yes (although it doesn't look factory original to me)

but I have hi-res photos of all 3 cars at the 86h race where you can see that none of 'em had a cage from the factory

same for the #61 car (Simonis / Hoier / Kayser)

click on the TN pics to get full size

86h photos (http://www.oct.at/wos/86h/page_01.htm)

[PJenkins]

in this picture above - yes (although it doesn't look factory original to me)

but I have hi-res photos of all 3 cars at the 86h race where you can see that none of 'em had a cage from the factory

same for the #61 car (Simonis / Hoier / Kayser)

click on the TN pics to get full size




I never realised that they never had cages...and to think the raced them at the 'Ring! ....without a cage?

Peter

[gms]

I know...but in the picture of the #2 car it does??

Peter

This is a picture of the car after being restored by Miles Collier, it was taken in the mid '80s

[Gustl]

I never realised that they never had cages...and to think the raced them at the 'Ring! ....without a cage?

Peter


I was wondering about this fact every now and then ... really strange ... almost unbelievable ...

at least the '71 Monte GTs had cages ... half a year later
but the cars for the '71 Monte practicing had none

[gms]

I went thru some period pictures and noticed that a cage was not noticeable on any of the 1970 pictures but is noticeable on every 1971 and after picture.

[gms]

In the Pits

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Another picture

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a cleaner picture of an older post