914 Info, US vs RoW breakdown ? Options

[ArtechnikA]

used the "914 Info" feature just the other day, after Andy pointed us there in the thread about the '73 that may or may not have been a 1,8. sure enough, the Info page shows more than 3000 '73 1,8's made - but i've never seen one before '74. with almost as many '73 1,8's as 914.6's, you'd think more would have turned up.

so i'm wondering if those 3000+ '73 1,8's were the dual-Weber carbureted Euro cars, and the AFC (L-Jet) 1,8's were imported here only for '74+ -- or those numbers are for '74 models made in '73 ...

do we have any numbers on how many 914's by type were US- (or US/CDN) spec and how many were RoW ?

[ArtechnikA]

I have never seen production numbers USA vs ROW anywhere Rich, as many times and places I have looked. In fact the PCNA and various factory sources specifically say that they dont know either...

i believe you, but that is a very scary thought indeed...

Jeff - you've seen a factory CoA for a 914, yes? (i keep meaning to go get mine documented, just haven't yet ...) if the North America and RoW cars have different Type Codes, is this information shown on the CoA's ? is the destination country build code shown in the CoA?

i understand subtleties like which were and were not CanAm cars (LE's) is not documented, but it seems to me somewhere along the line they'd have had to know what kind of turn signals to use and whether or not to drill the fenders for US-DOT side markers...

if this kind of data -isn't- known to the factory, where are they getting the information that's documented on the CoA ?

a long, long time ago i saw total production vs US import numbers on the early 356's - and if they had that kind of data in the early 50's, when they were mostly too busy building cars to keep good records, i wonder how they could have stopped keeping track in the 20 years it took them to start producing 914's ? i can -maybe- understand they wouldn't know all the numbers on the cars Karmann produced, but it seems they'd know about the /6's produced on the 911 assembly line ...

fascinating...