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
>>