chassis number decoder, is this right? Options

[914 RZ-1]

So I'm looking for something that will tell me what the numbers mean on the chassis number. I find the "chassis number decoder" info shown. However, it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something? My chassis number-found on the inside front fender on a plate (is this supposed to be the same as the VIN number?)-is 472 2910951, door sticker says car was built in Feb '72.

So using the decoder it seems my car was built in the 29th week of the year (29) on Monday (1) at the Karmann factory (9) and it was the 51st car built that day.

By the way, the chassis plate states the car was "Made in Germany", but there was a West and East Germany back then, so what gives?

[ClayPerrine]

Just a related side note...

I took a picture of the body tag on the Sounato GT at Rennsport.

It doesn't have a number on it, just the paint code.



"Curiouser and curiouser!" - Alice

[SirAndy]

Just a related side note...
I took a picture of the body tag on the Sounato GT at Rennsport.
It doesn't have a number on it, just the paint code.
"Curiouser and curiouser!" - Alice

@ClayPerrine
It's a /6 is it not? Them do not have a chassis number on the Karmann tag.
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[ClayPerrine]

Just a related side note...
I took a picture of the body tag on the Sounato GT at Rennsport.
It doesn't have a number on it, just the paint code.
"Curiouser and curiouser!" - Alice

@ClayPerrine
It's a /6 is it not? Them do not have a chassis number on the Karmann tag.
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I just looked at our six... and you are right. I never noticed that before.

I learned something new today.

[wonkipop]

Just a related side note...
I took a picture of the body tag on the Sounato GT at Rennsport.
It doesn't have a number on it, just the paint code.
"Curiouser and curiouser!" - Alice

@ClayPerrine
It's a /6 is it not? Them do not have a chassis number on the Karmann tag.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif)

I just looked at our six... and you are right. I never noticed that before.

I learned something new today.

so a 6 is pretty much as per a 911 in some way.
the chassis (or production number) would be there somewhere on the body - because its the build sheet number for the order.

those karmann tags on the 4 and the 6 would not have gone on until the car was virtually finished. they are like fancy little nameplate items. as they were building the cars they would have been going off the number where it is stamped in the metal in the trunk.
does the 6 have the number stamped there.

i forget where it was on 911s. i think it was in some obscure location on the floor pan or somewhere like that. the reutter plate or the karmann plate would have gone on pretty late in the piece of assembling the body before it got sent either across the road to the porsche assembly line or transported from karmann to the porsche assembly line.
(which for all intents and purposes during that era was a kind of hand assembly "garage".
it wasn't very big. i think porsche bought into reutter sometime in the early 60s but they did not have capacity to make all the porsche bodies. so karmann was always involved to some degree in porsche manufacture right through the 60s.

kind of puts paid to all the NARPOs who liked to look down their noses at 6s as if they were VWs when they might have been driving one of those VW built 911s themselves. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)