An interesting bit of history. Do you know why these two 914-6 GT race cars incorporated the extra reinforcement from the roll bar hoop to the rear shock towers? Apparently, the story goes (from Paul Ernst Strahle), when the Strahle and the Seiller 914-6 GT cars raced at Monza in 1971, both were so quick during qualifying, they pissed off the Italians, so the race officials insisted on the two 914's to be fitted with a 3-point roll cage, just like the other race cars at the event, they would not accept the typical roll bar hoop as the only protection. Both 914-6 GT cars were then sent to a local welder in town and that's how both of these 914-6 GT race cars ended up with the very same 3-point roll-bar reinforcement configuration! https://pbase.com/9146gt/image/133584005

Paul Ernst updated his Strahle 914-6 GT sometime in the 1990’s from a fixed welded attachment to a removable-type bar https://pbase.com/9146gt/image/133583914 in order to change the 914-6 GT to different configurations. During a recent restoration of the Ernst Seiller 914-6 GT, Simon Bowrey (current owner) also decided to change his GT to the newer design of the Strahle car copying the removable feature of this reinforcement modification. Very nice job Simon! https://pbase.com/9146gt/image/133584004

I too will be following their lead and incorporating this 3-point roll bar modification in my 914-6 GT project. Here are the photo details of our fabrication work https://pbase.com/9146gt/the9146gt_3point_rollbar_71monza_fabrication_rollbar

Incidently, if you'll like to see some period videos of an actual Monza 1000 Kms race, and the one in 1971 where these two 914-6 GT factory race cars competed, please follow these links; 1970 Monza 1000 Kms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngxD5wxJwCA <><><> 1971 Monza 1000 Kms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJaW_tOcjSY

Here is an earlier 1968 Monza 1000 Kms race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxkVy01wk3Q&NR=1&feature=fvwp <><><>