Author Topic: Pieter's puzzle 26 - Pietro Frua's VW-Porsche 914/6 "Hispano-Alemán" (1971)  (Read 1054 times)

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Know what it is? Please tell.
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Re: Pieter's puzzle 26
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2008, 12:02:00 PM »
It's Pietro Frua's VW-Porsche 914/6 "Hispano-Alemán" (1971)
 :) Awesome car!
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Re: Pieter's puzzle 26
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2008, 03:10:56 AM »
Yes, indeed. Well done.
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Re: Pieter's puzzle 26 - solved - Porsche 914/6 by Frua
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2012, 09:11:28 AM »
Another picture of this very nice car:

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Re: Pieter's puzzle 26 - solved - Porsche 914/6 by Frua
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2013, 10:14:26 AM »
Should this also be labeled as "Hispano-Alemán Vizcaya"?

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Re: Pieter's puzzle 26 - solved - Porsche 914/6 by Frua
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2013, 09:12:14 AM »
Should this also be labeled as "Hispano-Alemán Vizcaya"?

This car has been around since 1971 and has always been of special interest to me.
I was entertained by Ben Heyderich, who commissioned it from Frua with Ferry Porsche's blessing, and have sat in the car (unfortunately it was a non-runner).  I tried to persuade Ben to sell me it, but it was his 'baby' and he wasn't interested.

However, at no time in the last 41 years nor when I was in conversation with Ben has the name Vizcaya ever cropped up!  Yet, suddenly, it has appeared with that name on some sites.  I have no idea where it came from; maybe the idea was knocked around or maybe if the car had entered production (as was the intention, but a drawn-out lawsuit with Frua about who actually owned the design meant that never happened because the Porsche 914/6 was out of production by the time Ben won his case..) it would have been called that.  But I never heard the name mentioned.

As a footnote Ben was tragically killed in his aerobatic aircraft in Latvia (or Lithuania, I can't remember now) 3 or 4 years ago.   I don't know what has happened to this car now.
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Thank you for your personal insight on this car

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The car in colour:

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Thanks dzima.
I have a feeling I took that photograph!
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