someone wrote on the dash, signature under the vinyl? Options

[worn]

I was replacing the foam and dash vinyl when I realized that the squiggles on the metal were letters in cursive writing. This is just to the left of the instrument area.

It looks to me like someone in the factory signed the car. Was that at all common? When I put the new foam on, I tried to glue around the letters.

[914_teener]

My car was built as a 73 was Ivory White but the dash was Ravenna Green.

In those days they most likely "batched" parts on what they thought what orders would be in the paint booth.

The idea was that it wouldn't be seen so it didn't matter what paint was on the dash. They would paint all parts in for the chassis including any excess dash panels and paint them one color to same painting them separately since the dash was installed later to accommodate wiring and the dash components after painting.

Now days, a modern manufacturing line they can paint different colors on order. Porsche's factory in Zuffenhausen is quite the modern factory and I was lucky enough to see in back in 2018.

In a 914 it is quite common to have a different color dash.