Porsche 914/6 Murène
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| couleur | | . | | conduite | | conduite à gauche | | carrosserie | | Coupé | | année | | 1969 | | Estimation : | | 50.000 - 100.000 EUR | | TVA | | Non | | ville | | F - 75008 Paris | | pays | |  |
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Sold with purchase invoice and customs clearance certificate. One of the first 914-6. Example of the rare prototypes on Porsche base. Styled by the designer of the TGVEx salon de Paris 19701969 Porsche 914-6 Murène Since its beginnings, engineer Ferdinand Porsche’s company has principally lived off the success of one model. The 911 succeeded the 356 in 1964, but was attractive to a different financial sector. Once its success was recognised, the younger client base could no longer afford to buy the 911, so Porsche looked at producing a more economical model aimed at the younger generation. To keep build and design costs down, Porsche teamed up with its cousin Volkswagen to create the VW-Porsche 914, available in the Volkswagen range with four cylinders and six cylinders in Porsche.Meanwhile, the coachbuilder Brissonneau & Lotz, already working closely with the coachbuilder Chausson, was installed at Creil dans l Oise, building small series of bodies for major European marques, as well as railway carriages and locomotive bodywork. The research department took in talented designers, such as Paul Bracq and Jacques Cooper, who styled the first TGV. It was the latter who, in 1969, drew a design for a pretty coupé on the base of the new Porsche 914. The management at Brissonneau & Lotz liked the elegant design and acquired a Porsche 914-6 to build the car. However, financial difficulties of the parent company, Chausson, brought the project to an end. Jacques Cooper then turned to Henri Heuliez, who saw this as an opportunity to bring his own company into the limelight. While remaining as a designer for Brissonneau, Jacques Cooper collaborated with the Heuliez research department, and the project that started in l’Oise was taken up again and built in Vendée.The Porsche 914-6 built by Heuliez was called the Murène, and was shown at the Paris Motor Show in October 1970. At that time, the top half o
Sold on the 12.07.2012 |
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