The Porsche 914/6 is one of the company’s most intriguing creations, a vehicle that seemingly shouldn’t exist and that no one was necessarily asking for. However, like all things made by Porsche that are limited in production and offer better performance than the rest of the product line, it immediately became a fan favorite and is quite sought after today. However, after a significant run-up in values in the last 10-15 years, prices have stabilized to the point that a driver-quality example can be had for under $50,000. This is a custom-built 914/6 with lots of track-inspired details, and is listed here on eBay with an asking price of $54,750 or best offer.
In 2023 and 2024, a period of time that was safely outside of the pandemic run-up in classic car prices, clean 914/6s were still trading hands for upwards of $100,000. Frankly, this is the last time I really checked values, as it seemed like yet another Porsche model was out of the barn and off to stratosphere. These days, however, several driver-quality 914/6s have sold for under $50,000 or haven’t sold at all. Granted, these are not preservation-grade vehicles, but it’s still surprising to see such tepid interest in a car that has all the right ingredients to be an air-cooled rockstar. Which does beg the question as to how the market interprets a 914/6 that began life as a 4-cylinder.
The good news is the rest of the 914 more or less stayed the same, so if you do embark on a swap project, you don’t have to rebuild the entire car. The seller notes that the project took on a slight outlaw vibe, with an aggressive stance accented by larger Fuchs-style wheels, a lowered suspension, and details that he associates with the stillborn Porsche 916 concept – a widebody race car based on the 914 that never saw production. The all-red paint job is an interesting choice, with the targa top, bumpers, and rear spoiler all painted to match. It either looks great or makes you think they simply painted the car with little attention paid to masking, and while I know it mimics the 916, it can have the opposite effect. Perhaps some black undercoating on the rockers and lower sills would help to break things up visually.
The engine is a 2.8L flat-six with Weber carburetors, MSD ignition, and I’m sure numerous other upgrades. The seller doesn’t provide much info on the engine build or what was involved, and since it’s a dealer, the 914 is likely being sold under consignment. The engine bay looks very clean with lots of attention paid to details under hood, which is what you want to see in a one-off build like this. The question is price: when an original factory car with some minor sorting requires sells for under $50,000 and a turnkey car like this that is far from stock and not an original 914/6, how do you place a fair number on it? It looks like an absolute blast to drive and will be interesting to see where it ends up.
Nice car. Clean and obviously fast as the 914s are very light. Interesting comment on the paint Jeff as the first thing I did to our orange hot rod was no black on the rockers and top to give the car a solid look. Took our 1.8 engine up to 135 hp to make it very fast and even faster with the 2.7 6 cylinder that the buyer put in it after I sold it which I regret to this day.
Yeah, with that car I have the indelible memory of a wild ride through the buyer’s neighborhood after his engine compartment mods back in the day. Impeccably finished ride and a tap of the go pedal would pin me to the firewall . . .
Looks great!! The engine is cleaner than the interior.
It’s nice, but body panels don’t match, and yes it’s a 6 cyl, but an upgrade at that. $55 k seems like a lot, but whatever……
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and for me, painting the rockers body color makes the car look fat and overweight.
First time I’ve seen one in red. A bit too much red. Can’t help but think blasphemous thoughts of painting the wheels Ferrari yellow with a prancing horse emblem on the hood!
I want windshield wipers and antenna for $55 large.
54k. not seeing it but then again i am not on whatever the seller is. i can find better things to spend 54k on if i were looking.
The ad isn’t clear, is this an original 914/6 that has been hot-rodded, or an ordinary 914 that has been turned into a “tribute” to a 914/6? I suspect the latter, which is why it’s not selling at six figures. The lowering doesn’t thrill me, as these cars already sat low to the ground in stock form, and I’d ditch the Webers in favor of the Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection these were born with, in either the base four cylinder or the six-cylinder versions. If I can’t fit the stock injection system, Borla makes a nice setup that mimics a Weber carb setup, but with the drivability and fuel efficiency of fuel injection. The top and “B” pillars come covered in vinyl from Stuttgart, so I’m O.K. with painting them instead, but I’d use black paint to mimic the vinyl as a contrasting color.
The write up indicates that it began life as a 4 cylinder.
Our male gym teacher had a base 914 in high school, so my chemistry teacher and a friend removed all of the knobs from the dashboard as a prank, LOL! His was painted a color we called “Construction Barrel Orange”, LOL! This gym teacher had a reputation for seducing female students. Too many times, he’d send us down to the weight room for gym, lock the door to his office, and soft music would be playing on the stereo system in his office as he “counseled” a well-endowed female student of the cheerleading variety, LOL! He was gone by my junior year, the scuttlebutt was that the principal had discovered his “counseling” sessions and he was fired!
Our gym teacher had a new Jeep Comando which he thought made him cool. He was never cool!
Trying to push a boulder up hill when you try to push 914 numbers up this far! Probably a very fun car to drive, always likes the weight distribution but it’s just 20 large on price!