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Posted by: URY914 Aug 17 2003, 04:34 PM

My car's serial number is

4732915715

BTW, the plate at the driver's side windshield that has the number on it, is aluminum. Won't rust- the entire car may rust away, but you'll alway know what number you had.

Paul

Posted by: redshift Aug 17 2003, 04:40 PM

472-something... can't find the papers.. 4742915654.. I can find those..

Why did you leave that heavy assed tag on there?




M

Posted by: cgnj Aug 17 2003, 05:00 PM

How about a quart of Por-15

4762903939. Automatic loser to any 916/6

Carlos

Posted by: TimT Aug 17 2003, 05:03 PM

5752901079

its a rare factory 3.2L 914/6 LOL

Posted by: tryan Aug 17 2003, 05:03 PM

4742905427.

Posted by: TimT Aug 17 2003, 05:09 PM

Yikes this isnt an FBI sting is it??

Posted by: David_S Aug 17 2003, 05:33 PM

one is 4732904427 & the other is 4762900402

Posted by: BIGKAT_83 Aug 17 2003, 05:44 PM

4742918212 and 4762000117 more to follow

Posted by: VegasRacer Aug 17 2003, 05:50 PM

4742904411


Attached image(s)

Posted by: tryan Aug 17 2003, 05:50 PM

hey, this isn't fair. all the good ones where mid production. the guy that owns air cooled classics in knoxville has sisters. two consecutive 74 cars

Posted by: URY914 Aug 17 2003, 06:00 PM

I thought I had the secret serial number de-coder but I can't find it.
So who knows what all 'em there numbers mean?

I know the second and third from the left is the year, "73" . What about the rest?

Posted by: nomore4 Aug 17 2003, 06:15 PM

the 2 I ruined: M4702911788 4732923382

the next: 47329199691

Posted by: ejm Aug 17 2003, 06:18 PM

4742920531 and 4762903522 are mine. 4722919703 was mine, now my brothers. 4732919555 is rusting in peace out back. 4732906405, 4742908857 and 4752904098 are parted but not forgotten.
Do I win? I need the WD40 for the 911.

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Aug 17 2003, 06:28 PM

47429001465 Light Ivory 2.0L has 73 car features

47429015176 The Bumblebee

Redshift...what is the paint code for your car? Your VIN is in the 914 LE VIN range...

Posted by: Mike Pearson Aug 17 2003, 06:50 PM

What's with all these "474" and "473" numbers?

Mine's 4702907915 - originally orange, now red.

"It's not a driver, it's a *project*."

Posted by: URY914 Aug 17 2003, 06:51 PM

Bowlsby,
What do the numbers mean?

Paul

Posted by: tryan Aug 17 2003, 07:02 PM

4 is the car, 3rd the year. i.e 473 ....73 model. next two digits, i don't know. but 29. last 5 are sequence #....00001 and up.



stupid close guess.

Posted by: boxsterfan Aug 17 2003, 07:28 PM

Mine is 4702902769. Adriatic Blue. I've got a good shot 'cause only 2768 4-cyl's and some (not sure how many) 6-cyl's out there.

Isn't there someone on this board with a really early /6 (like 0006)?

boxsterfan

Posted by: mskala Aug 17 2003, 07:45 PM

9140430242. But I know somebody on the list who usually doesn't
post who has an earlier one.

Posted by: morgan Aug 17 2003, 07:57 PM

9140431069

Posted by: Andyrew Aug 17 2003, 07:59 PM

4732905246

Interesting thing about my car is that in the doors, a normal 73 has the beems in the doors for side impact, heavyer doors, but mine has no beams .. unlike from my other 73 (which I chopped up).

early 73? Hmm...

Posted by: URY914 Aug 17 2003, 08:05 PM

Yes, early '73 didn't have the side beams.


Paul

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover Aug 17 2003, 08:27 PM

The "29" is the number for the Karmann factory.

Posted by: GWN7 Aug 17 2003, 08:46 PM

Earliest would be my son's 4702910911......the others are much younger

I think the guy in Novato would win with the 04 car

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 17 2003, 09:08 PM

my car: 47 02 912181


from the "Das Grosse VW-Porsche Buch" ...

for 914/4:
(example) 47 02 912181

47 = type number = Model 914
02 = year code = 1970
9+ = # Count = 12181


for 914/6:
(example) 914 0 4 3 1234

914 = type number = Model 914
0 = year code = 1970
4 = engine code = 2L - 6 Cyl - 110 HP
3 = body type = Roadster
1234 = # Count


Andy

Posted by: si2t3m Aug 17 2003, 09:10 PM

Another adriatic blue 914: 4702909002

Marc-André

Posted by: PatW Aug 17 2003, 09:11 PM

4702909478

Posted by: Lawrence914-6 Aug 17 2003, 09:20 PM

9140430001

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover Aug 17 2003, 09:22 PM

4762903604

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Aug 17 2003, 09:59 PM

Andy,

I always thought that the '9' in both the VIN and chassis number (rear trunk and front drivers door) was the factory # code for Osnabruk...where all 914s were bornded...

Right/wrong?

Posted by: redshift Aug 17 2003, 10:36 PM

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 18 2003, 12:00 AM

Posted by: Bleyseng Aug 18 2003, 12:09 AM

4762904063


Geoff

Posted by: Pnambic Aug 18 2003, 12:09 AM

Man, the WD-40 stuff is dangerous....keep it out of reach of yer kids. Might ruin yer paint job or something.

Posted by: MarkV Aug 18 2003, 12:15 AM

4732906003

Posted by: Bleyseng Aug 18 2003, 12:15 AM

Don't spray it on your tires, on the 911 BBS I heard it eats the rubber.




Geoff

Come on who has a newer car than me... I only know of one.....

Posted by: URY914 Aug 18 2003, 05:39 AM

I know 914'ers can handle a can of WD40 safely.
But the 911 boys need training.

Paul

Posted by: vsg914 Aug 18 2003, 06:40 AM

4752905503

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.


Rusty,0001? Cool!

Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 18 2003, 08:15 AM

Posted by: James Adams Aug 18 2003, 09:02 AM

I thought it was type 47, then the model year.
470 = 1970
471 = 1971
etc.

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 18 2003, 11:38 AM

Posted by: Qarl Aug 18 2003, 08:55 PM

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!

Posted by: Bleyseng Aug 18 2003, 11:42 PM

76, Karl

Posted by: Russ K Aug 18 2003, 11:52 PM

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".

Posted by: redshift Aug 19 2003, 12:23 AM

I think the drawbridge jumper was a nine-86..



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



M

Posted by: VegasRacer Aug 19 2003, 03:59 AM

Posted by: Bleyseng Aug 19 2003, 08:13 AM

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)

Geoff

Posted by: seanery Aug 19 2003, 08:17 AM

that's probably when they ran out of chasis.

Posted by: Bleyseng Aug 19 2003, 08:36 AM

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.


Geoff

Posted by: Jeffs9146 Aug 19 2003, 10:34 AM

9140432344
70' 194-6

Jeff

Posted by: Jeffs9146 Aug 19 2003, 10:39 AM

My book shows the earliest chassis number as a

1969/1970 914/4 1.7 4702900001

I wonder where that one is!

Jeff

Posted by: Qarl Aug 19 2003, 11:52 AM

Oops... I meant to type in '76 regarding Bleyseng's serial number. Was tired last night.

Posted by: Joe Ricard Aug 19 2003, 03:21 PM

the last digits are 0347


OOPS thats my 928.

I got to look at the teener, I am sure I am not in the running.

Posted by: drew365 Aug 19 2003, 05:54 PM

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.

Posted by: Bleyseng Aug 19 2003, 05:58 PM

Doesn't Brad have 9140430003?

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

Geoff

Posted by: URY914 Aug 19 2003, 06:18 PM

Didn't they build more than 9999 a year?
So how could the last four be the sequance?

Paul

Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 19 2003, 06:25 PM

Posted by: URY914 Aug 19 2003, 06:26 PM

Sorry,
I thought we were talking about -4's

Paul

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 19 2003, 06:34 PM

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

don't and

Posted by: Joe Ricard Aug 19 2003, 06:59 PM

My sons Cool Blue Teener 4742918332
Stats: Alaska Blue Metallic, 2L FUCHS, Hopped up 2.0L with 40 IDF's, No carpets, two Corbeau forza seats, fiberglass bumpers, valance and air dam. getting better everyday because he drives it to school.

Posted by: drew365 Aug 19 2003, 07:53 PM

Posted by: Rob Ways Aug 19 2003, 08:49 PM

I just went outside and checked

00001!!!

























HA HA JUST KIDDING

Try

15949
01858

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Aug 19 2003, 10:33 PM

What year cars are these from Rob?

15949
01858

Posted by: Jeffs9146 Aug 20 2003, 08:55 AM

We need the first set of numbers to figure the year!

Jeff

Posted by: Doug Leggins Aug 20 2003, 06:22 PM

4722901825 Driver
4722908135 Parts
4732914582 restoration project
4742904352 nearly gone

Posted by: Carl Aug 20 2003, 06:40 PM

<--- 9140432658

Carl

Posted by: LvSteveH Aug 20 2003, 07:44 PM

9140430206

Posted by: Rob Ways Aug 20 2003, 11:03 PM

Posted by: smrz914 Aug 20 2003, 11:04 PM

4722918953

Posted by: mr914 Aug 21 2003, 10:05 AM

9140430269 - undergoing Rust-or-Ation

Posted by: markb Aug 21 2003, 03:54 PM

Dad's Car... 4702910141

The Blue Car... 4722916162

Don't have the VIN's in front of me for the parts cars.

Posted by: StratPlayer Aug 21 2003, 04:04 PM

4762902998

76 2.0 D-jet

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Aug 21 2003, 08:11 PM

Posted by: jwade Aug 21 2003, 08:17 PM

4762901033

Posted by: Martin Baker Aug 21 2003, 11:35 PM

.............

Posted by: scotty Aug 22 2003, 04:41 PM

Oh all right: 4742916722

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Aug 22 2003, 05:53 PM

Hey scotty...Do you have an LE car? Your VIN is just at the edge of the known LE VINs.

Whats your color code from the door jamb plate?

Posted by: scotty Aug 22 2003, 11:02 PM

Not an LE that I know of (third owner). Given the paint code L51p (Olympic Blue) I kinda doubt it... Karman chassis #1519554, if that helps.

Posted by: rich brennick Aug 23 2003, 06:58 PM

This looks like a solid, low number so far:
4702902329
1970 914 Originally 1.7 Irish Green
now 283 Chevrolet British Racing Green

Posted by: rdauenhauer Aug 23 2003, 08:51 PM

15374 "74"
01730 "73"

Posted by: itsa914 Aug 23 2003, 09:10 PM

4702908790

-Garold

Posted by: dmilzoff Aug 24 2003, 02:33 PM

9140431603
1970 914-6