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> 914-6 A-Pillar VIN plate with two different fonts?
SirAndy
post Feb 24 2020, 10:54 PM
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Is this normal or is there something bad going on here?
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post Feb 25 2020, 12:28 AM
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Interesting to see the reverse side to look at the stamp. Of the hundreds of vin plates seen on this site, none look like that.
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post Feb 25 2020, 12:36 AM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Feb 24 2020, 08:54 PM) *

Is this normal or is there something bad going on here?
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Every one of the 6 A-pillar VIN plates I have seen look like this. Mine included. It appears that the factory stamped them with the 914 and then later on stamped the rest of the numbers. I have seen this on early steering wheels as well, where a 3 was stamped over with a 4 that didn't match the existing 4 stamped on the wheel. I thought it was an anomaly, until I saw another steering wheel with the same stamp. Jim
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post Feb 25 2020, 02:21 AM
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post Feb 25 2020, 04:11 AM
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Looks like 3 different 4's.

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post Feb 25 2020, 06:13 AM
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QUOTE(banananose914 @ Feb 25 2020, 01:36 AM) *

QUOTE(SirAndy @ Feb 24 2020, 08:54 PM) *

Is this normal or is there something bad going on here?
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Every one of the 6 A-pillar VIN plates I have seen look like this. Mine included. It appears that the factory stamped them with the 914 and later on stamped the rest of the numbers. I have seen this on early steering wheels as well, where a 3 was stamped over with a 4. I thought it was an anomaly, until I saw another steering wheel with the same stamp. Jim

They did it a lot with the steering wheels. Makes them look fake if you just see one.
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post Feb 25 2020, 09:05 AM
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Agree with banananose914, all the 914-6 VIN pillar tags I have seen are punched that way. Although I have seen repro tags that are too uniform and really look odd.
I have a euro-spec 914-6 that does not have the pillar tag but I had one made by Car Bone in Poland that’s perfect, just to have one. I won’t ever put it on the car.
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post Feb 25 2020, 11:57 AM
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914-6's were finished by Porsche so they used 911 style not the kind used by Karmman . Looks real to me.
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post Feb 25 2020, 12:30 PM
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Thanks folks, move along, nothing to see here ...
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post Feb 25 2020, 09:12 PM
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Yes, the 914 is different from the rest of it.
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post Feb 25 2020, 09:36 PM
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My guess is this is how they designated the build was a 6. Porsche then finished the tag when it was "born"
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post Feb 26 2020, 01:08 AM
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My guess is this is how they designated the build was a 6. Porsche then finished the tag when it was "born"

I doubt it since the A-Pillar tags were US only and Karman made the bodies for both the ROW /6 and US /6 cars.

All /6 cars were finished at Porsche ...
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post Feb 26 2020, 01:31 AM
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It is interesting, in that the process was broken up. I wonder when in production the tags were actually attached? We may never know.
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post Feb 26 2020, 09:01 AM
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post Feb 26 2020, 10:48 AM
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the 914-6 plate looked always like it was hand made, the four cylinder plate had a sculpted perimeter and looked machine made, but the one pictured, has clearly had the numbers modified.


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Is this normal or is there something bad going on here?
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post Feb 26 2020, 12:36 PM
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... but the one pictured, has clearly had the numbers modified.

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post Feb 26 2020, 01:04 PM
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yes clearly modified and so are these! (especially that LAST one!!!!& #33;)Attached ImageAttached ImageAttached Image[attachmenti
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... but the one pictured, has clearly had the numbers modified.

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post Feb 26 2020, 01:13 PM
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notice that the 71 has three DIFFERENT "ones" on the tag
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post Feb 26 2020, 01:39 PM
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Looks like I've got 2 different font fours, ones and nines. First four numbers are askew and a larger size compared to the next six
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wow just amazing how many of these sixes have had the numbers modified! Wonder if there is even ONE out there where all of the numbers match? Of course none of the 72 models were exported (we have two here) so cannot look at those, and this other 71 we have here is a euro edition so it too does not have a windshield plate
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