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> Hey, post your serial number, lowest and highest win a can of WD40
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post Aug 18 2003, 11:38 AM
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QUOTE(vsg914 @ Aug 18 2003, 05:40 AM)
Sir Andy, If I read you right, the 3rd and fourth # is the production year? That would mean my car was the 52nd year? That would make my car a 2021 model?
I found this years ago,
4=4 cylinder or type 4(can't remember)
75= year model
29= factory code
05503= yearly production number.

i just copied it right out of "the great VW-Porsche book" ...

> for 914/4:
> (example) 47 02 912181
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> 47 = type number = Model 914
> 02 = year code = 1970
> 9+ = # Count = 12181


52 means 1975 according to their explanation ...

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post Aug 18 2003, 08:55 PM
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Bleyseng's car is 12 units from the end of the 914 production run in 1976 (or so he told me)!

I think he wins the highest vin number award!
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post Aug 18 2003, 11:42 PM
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post Aug 18 2003, 11:52 PM
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Anyone know the VIN# of the infamous florida drawbridge jumper?

I dont know why.. i just thought it might be neat to know if your car was one of its assembly-line buddies.


...it might also be helpful to know when you see a car on e-bay that says it has a "salvaged title". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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post Aug 19 2003, 12:23 AM
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I think the drawbridge jumper was a nine-86..

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(for sale: 914, clean longs, sags.. $2000.00 obo... yellow cars fly farther.)



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post Aug 19 2003, 03:59 AM
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QUOTE(kellzey @ Aug 18 2003, 06:55 PM)
Bleyseng's car is 12 units from the end of the 914 production run in 1975 (or so he told me)!

I think he wins the highest vin number award!

The book says that the final chassis number is 476 29 04075.


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post Aug 19 2003, 08:13 AM
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I have seen a posting from the guy who has 4760294072 on Rennlist. That is the newest 914 I know of.

Some newer books are rounding off the production numbers to 4100 for 76.

Does anyone know why they stopped at such a weird number (4075)?

(I do)

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post Aug 19 2003, 08:17 AM
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that's probably when they ran out of chasis.
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post Aug 19 2003, 08:36 AM
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Yep! They actually made a bunch of the parts in 75 before shutting down the stamping machines and re-tooling for the water cooled VW's. They put cars together until there weren't anymore useable tubs. Porsche had a ton of leftover engines so that why they build the 912E's, they had the engines and needed to "offer" a low priced Porsche.


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post Aug 19 2003, 10:34 AM
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9140432344
70' 194-6

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post Aug 19 2003, 10:39 AM
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My book shows the earliest chassis number as a

1969/1970 914/4 1.7 4702900001

I wonder where that one is!

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post Aug 19 2003, 11:52 AM
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Oops... I meant to type in '76 regarding Bleyseng's serial number. Was tired last night.
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post Aug 19 2003, 03:21 PM
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the last digits are 0347


OOPS thats my 928.

I got to look at the teener, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/flag.gif) I am sure I am not in the running.
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post Aug 19 2003, 05:54 PM
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I'll add mine for posterity. Certainly not the youngest or oldest: 9140432238

I thought I'd read that the 0 was the year, the 43 a factory location and the last four #'s the build sequence.
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post Aug 19 2003, 05:58 PM
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Doesn't Brad have 9140430003?

He's not saying anything cuz he doesn't want any WD40 I'll bet.

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post Aug 19 2003, 06:18 PM
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Didn't they build more than 9999 a year?
So how could the last four be the sequance?

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post Aug 19 2003, 06:25 PM
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Didn't they build more than 9999 a year?
So how could the last four be the sequance?

Paul

they never built more than about 3500 /6's total !
4 digits for sequence number was just fine...

/4's got 5-digit sequence numbers ...
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Sorry,
I thought we were talking about -4's

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now is anyone actually collecting all this info and putting it in a nice spreadsheet that we then can use to build our very own 914club registry (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon14.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon14.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon14.gif)

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