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Jens · Jens's Garage

To my eye, Rick Cabell's 910 looks much more faithful to the factory werks 910. If I was to spend the time and the money I'd *really* want the shape and proportions to be correct. Rick, I'll take it! Now for the *right* motor....hmmm.

Jens

Rick Cabell · 12-17-2003, 02:44 PM

Hi, All that have asked about my car, I will respond as soon as it stops snowing!! I have been digging for 9 days, and the snow is now coming down like crazy! And to think I just finished up from yesterday's storm............

Bobboloo · Bobboloo's Garage

Wow! Just restoring a car is such a monumental task.

All I can say is "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy"....

jluetjen · jluetjen's Garage

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You guys can't get too picky about what is exactly correct or not.

Fear not Jerry, that's why I wasn't going to say anything about the mirror. My apologies for bringing it up. I think you've done a great job. I wish I had the time/money/talent to build the car that you did.

jester911 · jester911's Garage

One other thing you guys may or may not realize. The member that posted here, eshahoian is the guy in the magazine that built the car. Its a small world, even smaller with this thing called the internet.

eshahoian, hats off to you.

jluetjen · jluetjen's Garage

RickM · RickM's Garage

Jerry,

My comment wasn't being picky. From what I understand Porsche did a few hackesque things to get product out in time. Especially the one off and racing stuff. I was actually curious about wether the mirror mount was correct.

I am indeed impressed with your talents.

Wil Ferch · 11-19-2004, 09:16 AM

Bumping this to ask:

Rick Cabell.....how much would such a rolling chassis cost, if I may ask? Is that the one-and-only you've built so far? Are there more?

eshahoian.....any "new" news on what kinds of projects are current? Fantastic effort on the 910 !!

Wil

Rick Cabell · 11-19-2004, 09:28 AM

Because of the weak $$, all project that begin in Germany are on hold, untill the $$ recovers.( Not holding my breath). The one I had has been sold to a real nice man in the Dallas area. He is going to finish it.
Current project are a 68S soft window, 73S from Italy, 2 73 RS's, and a early 911 prototype restoration. Oh, and one or two 67S cars. Busy ,busy.........

Joeaksa · 11-19-2004, 10:57 AM

After reading all of this, cannot wait until I win the lottery! Beautiful work and glad to see its still being done.

JoeA

eshahoian · 11-19-2004, 01:59 PM

Hello Wil and 910 enthusiast friends,

I would really love to meet Rick and see his 910 - we have shared the same dream and no-doubt been down some of the same roads.

The first continuation 910 was fabricated with a mixture of original parts and replica pieces. We have many complete sets of spares and we are ready to build more. The remaining continuation cars will be all new, all correct, parts when we make them - no original parts are left in the world.

A 907K is in process now- it happens to share some of the same components as the 910. We have a second continuation 910 car soon to go on the welding bench.

We invested significant time and dollar resources into tooling to make original material, original specification, components down to the ball joints. This is why we have extras. Even though these were all made here in the US, the cost is high on the parts. All components on our 910 car (s) are 910 specific which is usually not the case with replicas. This makes it more limited as far as the market goes to sell such a car - it comes down to actual economics of duplicating what Porsche did in 1967. It is far more expensive today if you figure in engineering hours. Also, we are not manufacturing many of these cars so there is no economy of scale operating here.

I do all the fabrication myself here in California - no exchange rate issue - just time. We are open to discussing projects with qualified interested parties so that we can sell off the remaining parts.

Correct duplicates of rare racecars typically sell for 1/3 of the current market auction price. For a 910, that is the bare minimum to make it worth our while to make one - it is a lot of work and the parts are huge projects in themselves (hollow magnesium uprights were a one year engineering / CAD project alone).

So - spread the word--we have limited parts and the willingness to assemble them. We are thrilled to own/drive a piece of history and the idea of sharing that with a few more cars in other hands is appealing.

Mark and I are trying to get a web site together with all the photos from the project and lots of text on project history and the people behind the car.

Any inqueries about our current projects etc. can be addressed to eriksfabshop@yahoo.com and I will be happy to reply.

Cheers!

Erik Shahoian

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

Erik: Keep us posted on your endeavours, great stuff! You need to run your post # tally up.

threegunner · threegunner's Garage

Congratulations Erik,
Your engineering skills and your Fabshop are getting the recognition it deserves. Much success to you, and thanks for your help on my project.
Victor

Joeaksa · 11-20-2004, 05:58 AM

Erik,

Very nice work and really hope to see a website in the near future. Hope you and your team keep up the excellent work!

JoeA

Angel Nieto · 10-16-2007, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Rick Cabell

I am working a similar deal. The car isn't done yet, but I will sell "to finish yourself".
If anyone interested, let me know.........

Dear Fan,

is this dream of 91o possible to buy (as replica).

Bets regards a´nd thanks for answer,

Nikola (Serbia)

Rick Cabell · 10-16-2007, 09:44 AM

Sorry, this dream has been sold long ago.

Wil Ferch · 10-17-2007, 04:57 AM

Nikola

Go back to response #50 by Noah who said the same thing..and "hinted" that Rick can somehow get ahold of / build another.

However, last answer from Rick ( response #57) didn't indicate this....maybe PM him and you two can discuss ??

Rick Cabell · 10-17-2007, 06:37 AM

Yes, there is one more car available from a few years ago. It was for the guy that was doing the marketing of the project. I'm sure he would sell it. Back in the time when I started this, the dollar was .75 to the euro. Now with the euro at 1.43 to the dollar, the price increase makes the deal not interesting. To bad, as I had started bring in street cars again. A 74 Euro Carrera that was 35,000 euros, was $26,500. Now these cars are 60,000 euros, which at todays rate is $87000. Actually the 74/75 Carrera's are more like 65-80,000 euros, for a nice one. Whoops, I guess I've slid off topic a bit.

autohausdolby · 10-17-2007, 11:16 AM

Every time I come up with an idea for a replica someone has already done it better than I can currently afford to

A couple of cool cars on this thread.

nota1 · 06-08-2008, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick Cabell

Yes, there is one more car available from a few years ago. It was for the guy that was doing the marketing of the project. I'm sure he would sell it. Back in the time when I started this, the dollar was .75 to the euro. Now with the euro at 1.43 to the dollar, the price increase makes the deal not interesting. To bad, as I had started bring in street cars again. A 74 Euro Carrera that was 35,000 euros, was $26,500. Now these cars are 60,000 euros, which at todays rate is $87000. Actually the 74/75 Carrera's are more like 65-80,000 euros, for a nice one. Whoops, I guess I've slid off topic a bit.

Rick saw your post of last year, re 910, is this car still avaliable???

e-mail me, please: nota@optusnet.com.au