COA and VIN's, Germany may have lost my VIN -- NO AA coments Options

[auerbach]

For the last 3-3 months I have attempted to get a COA from PCNA and was told that they had to go back to Germany for the records.

After several phonecalls and being told that Germany is researching its' archives, I have now been told..... "As to the explantion as to why we may not be able to provide a COA for you vehicle it appears there may have been a loading error when the information was transferred from Hard Copy to electronic database and your VIN is not searchable. I am confirming with PCNA and PAG again whether or not they still have this VIN archived.".

Has anyone had this problem? Any suggestions? And no, I did not get the car from George and I would appreciate it if this thread does not turn into a George bashing. He and his staff have made my car possible and I only have thanks and praise for AA.

[ejm]

Chris advises that both engine and trans appear to have been purchased from a junkyard at the same time and were taken out of a '75 914.

Giving this some thought there may be another answer. The engine and trans were both marked "75 914" with a paint crayon. Agreed that the engine case is a '73, the trans a '74 and the chassis a '76. So how did this happen? I'd speculate this. For whatever reason the original units were removed and the current engine and trans were mated and installed in the car sometime in the far past. More recently ( and before the DOT label was "lost" ) they were pulled again by a larger shop that had several projects going. It's not uncommon for a large shop to label units for storage and time accounting purposes. Someone opened the drivers door and took the date from the DOT label, XX/75.