I have a strange issue here in that the plate in the door jam and the stamp in the front dont match in terms of chassis number, but only by one digit
The plate is 421 0014
The stamp is 421-9014
Is this common? or is something strange going on here?
For the life of me I can't find the one in the trunk.
Ya the paint color matches, but no matter how hard I try to see otherwise that is a 0 on one and a 9 on the other, and believe me I am trying!
Okay - here's how the coding was supposed to work on these Chassis Nos. (Courtesy of davep from Canuck-land on here):
Meaning your 421- is 42nd week - 1st day (Mon.) in 1975 - so get yourself a 1975 calendar & count weeks to get month - any number of days in a week counts as a week apparently (not full 7 required to count as a week from Jan 1).
014 means 14th built on that day/date - a morning car!
The 0 vs. 9 could just be ole Hans & Claus had one too many!
I had to get the paint off the rear trunk stamping on my 73 to read it, but it matched the Karmann Badge.
Hope this helps!
I also have a '76. I don't believe '76s have a number in the rear trunk. Here is what is in my front trunk-
And here is the Karmann plate-
my tag and vin but can't find the doorpost pic. There is no trunk stamp on 76 cars!
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Wow so Jim's is the same with a 0 on the plate and a 9 in the trunk. Since his was built the next day, I guess ol Hans and Klaus must have been suffering from a hangover on his.
Be curious to see how many (maybe all) are like this. Also now I can stop searching the rear trunk. Thanks all.
I cant get a decent shot of my Karmann Tag but the #s match up no 0s or 9s
I'd love to see a lot more photos, but I think it was an error omitting the 9.
The new tag replaced the rear trunk stamp during 1974 production. In 1975 the base 9500 was replaced by base 9000. Anomalies like this keep me from making blanket statements now, so your car may vary from the norm. If it does, please contact me so I can grow another gray hair.
It's going okay, eh. But I do have a lot more than 2 grey hairs; thankfully it is mostly in my beard. This is Bleyseng's Karmann badge:
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My 76 2.0L doesn't match up either. I had pictures somewhere. I will have to find them.
Don't have my camera handy but mine both match; 395 9008
maybe the guys punching the door jamb plates lost the thread for a while.
and finally, 35 years later, someone noticed.
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