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[robkammer]

Hello all: I'm new to the 914 world and am hoping to add a 2.0 to our garage soon. I have seen references to a VIN page in the forums but can't find it on the site.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks

[wonkipop]

i've also worked out some details of my car and its original purchase from the discussions in this thread and confirmation by @JeffBowlsby re spec of the base 74 and 75 1.8

in all the documentation that came with my car 35 years ago, a window sticker was missing. so can never confirm the factory order spec.
but it might be time for me to talk to @davep (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

however there were two 73 brochures. one is a big brochure and the other is the fabric and paint phamplet. the brown interior is ticked. my car has a brown interior.
and on the ext colors page is handwriting that says "which paint color?" same handwriting as in some pages of glove box manual. #1 is summer yellow.
#2 is signal orange. my car is phoenix red.

i conclude the original owners were looking at a car in 1973 and made the decision to place an order and buy in 74.

they were probably looking at a 73 1,7 appearance group in the showroom?
and now i know a base 1,8 in 74 was pretty close in most ways to an appearance group 1,7 in 73. all that was missing was the parcel bin! - pretty much.
probably explains the parcel bin in mine? deliberate request and must have been a stronger preference to them than guages and console of the 74 1.8 A.G.
its unsual. i have only stumbled across one or two other 74 1.8s with the package bin.
nearly all are either nothing or the A.G console/guage set up.

they also special ordered in the sway bars.

looks to me like nothing else.
just a base 18 with the bin and the sway bars.
like you did not have to do much to a base 1.8 in 74 to have a car virtually identical to a full spec 1.7 from 73.

pretty clear that one thing the original owners agreed on as husband and wife was it had to have a brown interior. very 1974 fashion/taste.
the husband i bought the car off said it was his late wife's car.
she had kept it and would not part with it.
i reckon she might have been the one who was specific about the parcel bin?

its an early L jet from the first 3 months of production.
so its on the cusp of the end of 73s being in the showroom and the first arrival of the batch of new models coming in.