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Sonauto 1990 'ffioA *t , *. *1G, -- -= i".:r|',,.i1{ llllilffiillillluillill llllll re FRENCH FL By Peter Mills Roostertails of spray follow the white But not its notorietY hooked on Porsches, with a definite Porsche 914-6 GT as it flies down the buring the 1970 24ilours of Le Mans, weakness for 914-6 GTs. careful right-hand edge of the Mulsanne Straight Solar Productions was filming the race Because of his avid interest, at 150 miles per hour. lt is 1970 at Le for the Steve McQueen movie, "Le research and ability to sift the wheat Mans. June monsoons have made Mans." ln addition to placing camera from chaff when others offer advice, he purchases, his course conditions for the 24-hour endur- crews around the circuit, a Porsche 908 has parlayed trades and ance test dreadful. Many leading race race car, with three cameras on board, own reconstruction work on various cars have slipped off the asphalt and was entered to obtain on-track footage. Porsches into a collection anyone would Porsches: have shortened or narrowed themselves Sonauto's 914-6 GT survived the cut- envy. He currently has five against guardrails lining the circuit. ting room floor and appears in the movie -the Sonauto 914-6 GT; Of 24 Porsches that started, only '12 five times. -one of the BF Goodrich 924 GTR finished. But what a finish it was! Boththewhite Son- Porsches won virtually every class and auto and yellow/ category the white-with-black{rim green BP versions of . .914-6 Gf rs flying again. Sonauto/British- Petroleum 914-6 GT, the car have been averaging 99 miles per hour, tookthe GT the subjects of 1/ Only, t trs time its wheels are production-based class and sixth over- 43rd-scale Pitmodels. jet all. The winning Porsche 917 averaged When the jumbo not turning: lts chassis ts 119 miles per hourforthe day-long race. with the Porsche Almost two decades later, the same packed aboard landed secured to a metal Pallet 914-6 GT is flying again. Only, this time in LosAngeles,South- its wheels are not turning; its chassis is ern Californian Mike inside a 747 cargo iet bound secured to a metal pallet inside a 747 Hagen, who had been Los Angeles lnternational cargo jet bound for Los Angeles lnter- tracking the 9'14 foryears tor national from Europe. before being able to lrom Europe. Its races are over. ln fact, the 9'14-6 gain ownership of it, competed in only one major event fol- could hardly wait to lowing Le Mans:the 1970 Tour de France, take possession of in which it also finished sixth overall. lt his prize. wore the yellow and green colors of its However, a problem develoPed at turbos driven by Schurti, Miller and major sponsor, BP, for that series of that point. Let Hagen tell it: "Customs Bedard at Le Mans in'82; races held at various French tracks. held it for eight days. lt looked too much -an SCCA-prepared C-Production Apparently, Sonauto (France's d istrib- like a stock (production) car. They were 914-6; that he converted to GT utor of Porsche automobiles) planned afraid of getting burned (by someone -a1970 914-6 to enter the 914 at Le Mans in '71, and driving it on a public road). We finally specs for time{rialing; and father, Jack had the car repainted to its originalfac- convinced them with our documenta- -a 9'115 that he and his tory white-mit-swartz scheme. Plans tion that we weren't going to drive it, Hagen, co-own. changed - that year 91'ts were becom- except on a race track." Mike Hagen did not deplete a fortune ing more popular due to their larger When I first spoke with Hagen on the to obtain these cars - he didn't have engine displacement and Sonauto's telephone, I wasn't sure whatto make of one to start with. He is an average work- - job BP 914-6 GT was left at the bench when him: Was he an investor? Or a collec- ing stiff with a long-hour involving the transporter was loaded. lts major tor? Nothing in our initial conversation hazardous materials. He handles envir- league racing career was over. prepared me for the fact that he is onmentally dangerous wastes, trains Excellence Magazine DECEMBER 75 others to do the same or simply to rec- ordered from Peter Gregg's Brumos Mason put the rollcage in." This car has years, ognize what is dangerous before it's too Porsche in the same citY. been worked on over the ensuing late. lt is a multi-faceted, interesting, Hagen relates: "l went to Brumos and but is not yet finished. As you will see dangerous occupation. With his work, it talked to Buddy KennedY there. He shortly, Hagen is to be excused for the is a wonder that he found the time to didn't seem to know anything about my delay in completing the C-Prod 914. just even fiddle with one Porsche. order, but he said that there were some He was getting warmed up in this How he gathered his current collec- parts stored out backthat might be what race car buy/trade business. As it 'out market was beginning to tion - which he keeps scattered in var- I was lookin' for. When he said turned out, the ious shops and garages throughout the back,' he meant it. We walked out in a warm up as well. also L.A. Basin, depending on what stage of field behind the dealership to a small Car broker Kerry Morse, who men- restoration the vehicle is in is a tale of building sort of like a garage and deals in parts for exotic cars, first - - - the its own. Buddy unlocked the door. tioned the possible availability of Hagen's sister-in-law bought a 9.14-6 "There were all sorts of GT conver- Sonauto Porsche 914-6 GT about 1981. "Kerry the new in 1970. By 1974, she and her lrish sion parts just gathering dust. Buddy As Hagen recalls, thought might want a setter were looking for something with a said they just wanted to get rid of them. I owner (of the Sonauto 914) little more room; an Opel Manta as it made an offer and wrote a check for (Porsche) 906, so a trade might be in turned out, However, the Buick dealer everything. lt cost me more to air f reight the offing. I'd heard about a 906 for sale a was only willing to give her $1,300 (l)for the parts out to Cali{ornia than it cost to in Sacramento, so I decided to take the Signal Orange Porsche with primer buy the inventory." look at it. got car spots, so Mike bought it for $2,000. That As insurance, and to provide parts to "The guy in Sacramento the was his first Porsche. others, Hagen made fiberglass molds from Garretson's, who bought it from a Almost as soon as he got the car, he from the bumpers obtained from Bru- Hong Kong resident who raced it there, began competing it in Porsche Owners mos. Hagen reports a strange turn of and previously, in GermanY." "l Club time-trial events. To improve the events: "The 914-6 GT that was recently Hagen continues, checked the car 914-6's handling and performance, resurrected - Peter Gregg's old car out and decided to buy it: parts plus'car' Hagen purchased part of a GT conver- found in Mexico - has reproductions with a 'splashed'908 body on it. lt was sion kit: fiberglass trunk and engine- (bumpers) from my molds made from ugly, with a capital 'U'. lt took me five percent the deck lids, fender flares and oil lines. He Gregg's original 914-6 GT spares!" years to collect about 98 of quit racing the car in 1977 while waiting ln 1980, Hagen purchased a partially parts needed to restore it. The market jump car for parts. Finally, he planned atripto visit constructed C-Production 914-6 that started to about then, and going to be relatives in Jacksonville, Florida, so that had the rare,6-piece chassis reinforce- restoration (for the 906)was he could also see what the holdup was ment kit. "Some of the 914-6 race cars $100,000." was on the parts, some of which had been had the kit, some didn'1," he says. "John The six-figure restoration cost 76 Excellence Magazine DECEMBER wait for probably more than Hagen could afford, ln early 1988, Hagen Placed the ex- I had to not-so-PatientlY re-Plumb some gas lines although he did not say this to me. With Fitzgerald 935 on display at the L.A. Hagen to before dark set in, in orderto shoot pho- his ultimate goal stillthe Sonauto 914, a Auto Show. "l was having trouble stor- Fortunately for both our trade would make much more sense ing it. lt was so wide, I had to move two tos at the track. he performed the work with no to spend money he might not have cars out of a shop to fit it in." The auto sanities, than and I finally got the photo- on a car he reallY did not want. show proved to be an excellent placeto difficulty ln the meantime, the fellow who, in "store" the Porsche. "A guy called up a graphy- completed. When I earliertook pictures of the 914- 1981, might have been interested in trad- month after the show," saYs Hagen, Air France's cargo terminal at LAX, ing the 914 for a 906 had long since "and we started to put together a deal 6 at get- there was very little time to examine the divested himself of the Sonauto Porsche.
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