VW-Porsche 914/4 Pickup - Fast loader
Summary
A good 50 years ago, this Porsche 914/4 became famous in California as a pickup, built by a sheet metal artist and drawn by an expert in his field. This report looks back and shows the unusual conversion in many pictures.
This article contains the following chapters
- Basis: serious rear damage
 - A coachbuilder with history
 - One becomes two
 - Mid-engine sports car becomes a small truck
 - More advertising than payload
 - After several changes of ownership ...
 - Valuable
 
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
A VW Beetle as a panel van, the three-axle Mercedes T-model, the Cadillac with a towing crane: such crude conversions have a long tradition as original advertising vehicles from car recyclers. But probably none has a history as remarkable as the Porsche 914 pickup with open loading area. "Especially as it is the product of some famous to legendary contemporaries - and was not a one-off," says Myron Vernis. The classic car collector from Akron, Ohio, should know. Because the quirky mid-engine truck is one of his favorites. The story begins in 1972 - with a simple classified ad in the Los Angeles Times. It offered an extremely rare Porsche 914/6 Sportomatic with severe rear-end damage. The telephone number with the area code 714 is well known to those familiar with the scene: It belongs to Dave and Dennis Aase (pronounced "Aasi"), who run the legendary company Aase Brothers in Anaheim - which is located in Orange County south of the Californian metropolis. "Aase Bros." is not just the store from whose ceiling hangs the Porsche 908 longtail that finished second in the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans. Above all, Aase Bros. is the largest Porsche scrapyard in the world.
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