Really Good 904 Video

Looks like a really fun cars & coffee destination.

Was amazed seeing the first shots of the interior as to how much it looked like that of a Porsche 914!  Dash, door cards (cept windows) and rear seat bulkhead.  With the body off in another picture, the chassis also looked like a 914 with exact layout.

When I look at it - it looks somewhat kit car-ish.  I guess because it has been replicated so many times by kit car manf.  A few years back, at Carlisle, there was this replica (914 donor) beauty just behind the SOC Speedsters. (Sure beats the Chalon kit!)

“When I look at it - it looks somewhat kit car-ish.”

Made pretty much the same way Carey makes Spyders. Body molded to steel tubs frame.

Speaking of 904, here’s a video with some pretty good 4 Cam sounds.

https://youtu.be/h6_QT6Y1NAY

This glorious streamed through my tv/5.1 home theater amp. I bet my neighbors love it, too.

The 904 was just another light race car, designed and manufactured in a few months.

It was designed to excel and stay within a set of rules. It was not designed to be a finished, polished road car.

Kit cars look like the 904, not the other way round.

Did you ever REALLY look at a Ferrari Testarossa? Look hard, that looks like a kit car assembled in somebody's back yard.

I think it was the first fiber glassed Porsche? So there's that.

If you look hard at an original Lamborghini countach, it's also very "kit carish".

Do your teeth hurt from smiling so much ?     Great writing and superlatives.

@Carlos G posted:

I think it was the first fiber glassed Porsche? So there's that.

As was ever Porsche race car after that, with few exceptions. (A lot of endurance racers used modified production 911 shells with fiberglass panels)

Big Thanks Wolfgang!!

He was definitely a "car" guy and a joy to experience...