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Cheer or Boo?

I can't decide. It's awesome. It's also terrible.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should, I guess.

https://jalopnik.com/forget-singer-you-want-a-mid-engine-ls-swapped-porsche-1830004053

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The flares are weird .
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Ingenius! Do I like it? Yes. Could I do it? No. Tip of my hat to the guy!
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Wow! Full respect for the attention to detail!
If he likes it he's happy and don't care what you or I think...
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Crazy fabrication skills.
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The ridged metal on the wheel well areas are rather fugly and ruin it for me.

Take those off, and I could almost see it being a future-ized 914 style if the metal for the now gone rear quarter windows were removed.
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Lot of time and skill involved in that build.
Nicely 'executed' 912 mod.

Hope he gets some quality road time out of it.

(edit: I did say 'executed' 912)

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Looks like a lot of fun.

Perhaps some day he'll find the time to do his own unique bodywork style on an even greater part of the car.
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Lot of time and skill involved in that build.
Nicely 'executed' 912 mod.

Hope he gets some quality road time out of it.
They call it a redneck build in the article but it's much more involved.

I am very impressed but the purist in me votes boo.
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Great skills and all that but at every level that's just horrible!


And he's built something that's basically unsellable.
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needs better wheels to fill out the wheel wells better. But crazy cool build.
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Andrew15 built a 914 with a Nissan V6 in it. I drove it at Watkins Glen and Brainerd. It is a fast, well set up race car. He could have just as easily done an LS transplant.

The wheelbase was unchanged and it didn’t ruin the dynamics of the car. I suspect that this mid engine 911 would not handle anything like a 911.
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Cheers. Now go find some Bondo...
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"Karl Gaskins bought his then-beige Porsche 912 new in 1966, trading off a 1953 Studebaker Starlight Coupe and a split-window Beetle to acquire Porsche’s flat-four special. "

Lets have a moment of silence for this 912.


Yes, mad sheet metal skills (I spent ten years as a tin knocker) but not meant for a 912.

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