Reminder: Update your VIN info! Options

[SirAndy]

just a friendly reminder to update your VIN info.

go here:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=membervins

you can add as many cars as you like. please only add cars you currently own or that you parted out (mark those as "dead") ...

also, try to get as much info as possible, including:

- VIN
- paintcode (badge on drivers side front door jamb)
- build-date (sticker on drivers side rear door jamb)
- chassis number (badge on drivers side front door jamb and stamped into rear trunk floor)
- engine number


and lastly, if you have records of cars that you have come across in junkyards, backyards or even on ebay, please send that info to *me* in a PM.
i'll add those to the database manually so they don't have any owner assigned to them.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Andy

[davep]

Steve, the body/chassis 3 for the 914/6 is completely different than the 914/4. The 914/6 always has a 13 prefix, followed by a 1 for 1971 and 2 for 1972, then 4 digits for the sequence #. No 0 was used for the 1970 MY for some reason, but the dash which has a similar code number did have the 0 for the 1970 MY. The last 4 digits (the sequence #) should be somewhat close to the last 4 digits of your VIN.

The 914/4 OTOH, has the form xxy9zzz where xx is the week of the year ( 1 or 01 to 52, y is the day of the week (1 to 5) and zzz is the daily sequence # (starts at 501 from beginning in 1969 to about week 40 in 1974, then changes to 001).

Andy (correction required for your first post)

At the time that the chassis number changed from base 9500 to base 9000 the number was no longer stamped into the rear trunk floor, but was instead stamped into a tag that was riveted to the support under the right headlight bucket.

When entering data, please copy the info exactly as you find it on the car. There are known errors in the data plates such as the wrong VIN punched into the safety compliance decal, the wrong Karmann badge attached to the body, the wrong paint code or errors in the body number, even the VIN stamped into the right front fender can be totally different, particularly if it is a replacement body from the factory. If the numbers do not match then either someone has fudged the cars history, the factory goofed, or you may have something that needs some investigation.