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

[davep]

Regarding the Karmann body #'s, I was one of the first to decode the sequence using about 50 data sets. This was back in the late 1970's after purchasing my first 914 in 1975. The first thing that popped out was the 9 in the middle was constant, and the range of values for digit 3 was just 1 to 5. Then it became apparent that digits 1 & 2 did not exceed 52. So the week and day portion was solved. The last 3 digits are complicated, but in general are the daily sequence #. The base value is 500 from the inception of production to at least week 35 in calendar year 1974 and it appears that week 36 has a base of zero (000). From week 36 through week 42 the daily sequence number bounces up to about 400; but I have an outlier of 880. This is apparently due to the inclusion of VW models in the range. From week 43 the range drops to about 85 per day. I do not have enough data to know if the daily range is all 914 production or not.

Wes, I'd like to assist with your decoder since I have also found a few problems with it. I probably have the largest data set of Karmann body #'s to work with.

Also thanks for the offer of the spoiler brackets and bolts, my Bumblebees need a little dressing up in that department. I'll send a PM with info.
Dave