Fake VIN number, 1970 needs one last number |
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Fake VIN number, 1970 needs one last number |
pgollender |
Jan 17 2015, 08:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-July 11 From: Sacramento Member No.: 13,281 Region Association: Northern California |
My 1970 with a california re-assigned ID number is ready to go back on the road after nearly 5 years of restoration. When I bought the car it had a California re-assigned ID number because of a falsified VIN. About 10 years ago there was an investigation by a Fresno police officer that used a Fry's method of recovering the real VIN. His investigation was almost successful, he identified and recovered NINE out of TEN digits. So the car is one of 10 possible.
If the group can help by supplying any of the missing known numbers that would greatly enhance the chance of restoring the true ID number of my vechicle by process of elimination> This is the partial number: 4702905_48. Anybody that has that third digit could respond. If I get lucky, REALLY lucky, I'll have 9 responses. Any help is appreciated. |
pgollender |
Jan 20 2015, 04:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-July 11 From: Sacramento Member No.: 13,281 Region Association: Northern California |
I didn't think there was a 1 to 1 relationship to chassis numbers to VIN's either. I don't know how far the Karmann supply plant was from the VW-Porsche assembly plant, but I would imagine that the unibodys had to be transported and unloaded, moved around on the dock then the assembly plant, then marked at VW for certain assembly 'packages', thereby creating some discordance between chassis date and consecutive VIN numbers.
The reason I asked about the 3rd digit in the chassis number is that I found 1 member VIN # 4702905764 with chassis date listed as 1279585, making it a Sunday production chassis. Maybe an error on his part, but I've asked for clarification on that members part too, since I'm the nube here. My other 914, a 1974 has a chassis number that is actually sited with 6 digits, 219532, which I'm assuming is actually 0219532. I'm just trying to get a better feel about that relationship before I call PCNA, and ask for some research on the missing digit. "7" has a good of chance as any of them... But maybe so does 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 and 9. Anyway the Germans had it right about the beer, but like 914 owners, at least the American ones, we really perfected it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
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