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[914043]

owned 50 years preserved for 40 and now a 4 year refresh.

[Root_Werks]

Some very cool history behind that six! I like seeing the snow catcher rear valence. Those are rare.

[914043]

Some very cool history behind that six! I like seeing the snow catcher rear valence. Those are rare.

just to clarify the yellow 6 in the initial post is a 1970.I purchased it as is in 1972

[wonkipop]

Some very cool history behind that six! I like seeing the snow catcher rear valence. Those are rare.

just to clarify the yellow 6 in the initial post is a 1970.I purchased it as is in 1972

to assist with this question over bumpers.

mr. @Cairo94507 is definitely correct.
71s had the curved recess. but not all of them necessarily.

mr. armando's website for the 914/6 GT is very helpful.
he has kept a sales record in the past and has listed many cars.

all the 71s he lists that have photos have the curved recess later style bumper.

also if you go to his M471 section. all of them with visible bumper shots show they have curved recess bumpers. for the most part these seem to be strictly 71 models.

https://pbase.com/9146gt/sales_history_9146_916

did a quick cross check against the vin register here.
the earliest one with a clear image of rear bumper on his site is 0146.
that seems to mean it was made between 0120 which is an 11/70 and 0163 which is 02/71. a good guess would place 0146 as maybe an early new year 71 build.

did a quick scout on 71 914/4s.
harder to find those easily on BAT or anything else to place an early bumper with a vin date.
but if dr.914's restored motor trend car of the year is to be trusted, it had an earlier style bumper and i assume it was the original. dr914 is unlikely to be the sort of person to get that wrong. its construction is 11/70.
i found other 71s with the later style bumper but could not place a date against them.

i'll stab a guess and say the changeover must be sometime around the end of 70 and start of 71. maybe the new calendar year. approximately.

if anyone really wanted to sort this one out thats where to concentrate around.

i did find one aberrant 71 914/6 on BAT. which was 0271. much later in the MY with straight recess bumper. however when i looked closely at documentation it said it was sold with bumper guards new. the car looked to be in original condition but the bumpers showed no trace of the guards. so i suspect it had been restored with the replacement bumpers that were not "correct". a case of a restorer getting it wrong? maybe?

@914043 - it would appear your car originally probably had a straight recessed bumper.
if it was replaced for any reason after new year 71 the replacement would have been the newer type as a spare part.

as to the idea that all 914/6s had the straight recess. not true.
myth.

but an awful lot of 914/6s were 70 models.
i think that is where the idea comes from that its the 6 bumper.
its also on all the 4s of the matching time period.
its an early 914 bumper that is used for approx 18 months.

to me thats another reason to go get a 71 or a 72.
the rarest of the rare.
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