customer wants to know the month of his build, 4732920724 Options

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

body shop lost his tags and the rear trunk floor has been replaced. Thought that there was somewhere on the site with numbers and build dates but could not find it

[914_7T3]

I thought the 29 is the Karmann Factory designation.

My Vin is 4732921258 and was manufactured May 19, 1973 per COA.

Not sure how many cars were produced per day.

[wonkipop]

I thought the 29 is the Karmann Factory designation.

My Vin is 4732921258 and was manufactured May 19, 1973 per COA.

Not sure how many cars were produced per day.

not in the case of the vin number.

the 2 is a number assigned to all VW model lines beginning model year 1970.
ie mid calendar year 1969.

the beetle was about to click over 2 million cars produced since VW had introduced a new vin numbering sequence that had begun in either 1966 or 1968. can't recall off the top of my head which year it was right now. but where there was a 2 in the Vin like the 914 has and all other VWs beginning MY 1970 the beetle and other VWs prior to that MY had either no number there or a 1 if more than a million had been produced since 1966 (or 8 whichever that year was).

because they never got to a million 914s the number just stayed as a 2 on 914s.
it also stayed as a 2 for 411s/412s. never got to a million.
don't know about type 3s whether they managed to click over from a 2 to a 3 between 1970 and 1973 when they ceased production. could have. never have looked them up.
was also possible that buses clicked over from the 2 to a 3 or even more during the period the 914 was produced.
the beetle certainly did. it started with a 2 in 1970 got to a 3 within about a year and kept going to a 4 and 5.

as to the 9. i used to think that was signifying karmann factory just like it does on the VW production # (or aka karmann plate number) but its not.
if it was then the karmann ghias and beetle convertibles that came out of karmann factory would have had a 9 in the same place. they don't, most ghias i have noted vin numbers for have a 5 where the the 914 has the 9. and its a fixed 5 far as i can tell.
but its not like i am any kind of ghia expert, just something i noticed doing L jet research.

here is what they did.
on VW models that VW expected to get to 1 million cars in one production year the last 6 numbers were available for a run up to 999,999.
the 411s and 412s had that convention. there was a 0 there where the 914 had 9.
same with the beetles. there was a 0. VW expected these cars to hit 999,999.
when they did the 2 before that 0 would click to 3. beetles achieved those sorts of numbers.

i believe what VW did was assign a 9 to 914 vin numbers as a constant fixed number with 5 numbers available for the expected run of cars in any single year. ie 99,999 max.
they never got close.

same goes for karmann ghia. the 5 is a fixed number leaving the next 5 as the count for any one model year of production.

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