Special 914 model, made on a monday!!! Options

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

very rare!!!! (we have seen these factory mistakes before):

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

funny how the factory made a mistake on the plate, yet the other numbers are all ok. (excuse the poor photography). This was a wrecked customer 914 that we are doing a GT conversion. Had to replace the complete left rear quarter panel rear panel and rear trunk floor. Had been "fixed" in the past but the quarter spliced and welded while still bent (and some insurance company years ago paid good money for this butchery!!!!)

[wonkipop]

funny how the factory made a mistake on the plate, yet the other numbers are all ok. (excuse the poor photography). This was a wrecked customer 914 that we are doing a GT conversion. Had to replace the complete left rear quarter panel rear panel and rear trunk floor. Had been "fixed" in the past but the quarter spliced and welded while still bent (and some insurance company years ago paid good money for this butchery!!!!)

that makes sense doc.

don 't forget windscreen Vin tags and door jamb vin stickers are US market only special provisions. but all the cars (german/euro market/us market) got the manufacturers plate in the front trunk.

so they probably fitted the windscreen tag and the vin sticker for the us cars at some separate station at the end of the production line.

- i should add that given all the 76 cars were US market only - and the manufacturer plate didn't really count for US regulatory requirements - those 76 cars never had the front trunk plate. only had the vin sticker and the windscreen tag.

here is a photo of the production line at karmann in the first half of 1974.
suspect its actually right at the start of the first sciroccos coming down the line as small volume test examples ironing out hitches.
its got to be sometime between early feb 74 and july 74.
there are still karmann ghias in the mix and production stopped in july.
and you can see right at the front is a red 914. you can recognize the top.
so all the cars are scrambled in there.
though i am not entirely sure the 5 is explained by the scirocco vin on a windscreen tag as those sciroccos at that stage are domestic market german cars. they don't start making us market cars until the next model year. euro cars dont have windscreen vin tags. so. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) maybe they were testing fitting the tags on the production line?
but its pretty scrambled at the karmann factory compared to the other larger VW plants and production lines. in a way karmann was a kind of anachronistic semi hand built car production facility at that time.






ps doc.
that green car with the 574 tag.
was it originally a 1.8?
according to info i have compiled it seemed like just about all they built between very late oct 73 and early feb 74 were 1.8 models.