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jmargush
post Aug 18 2011, 10:27 AM
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What information can be pulled form a VIN number?

Is it possible to tell what displacement engine the car originally had?
4702902691

I know the second 2 numbers tell it was a 1970 MY

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post Aug 18 2011, 10:42 AM
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QUOTE(jmargush @ Aug 18 2011, 09:27 AM) *

4702902691


47 == 914-4
0 == 1970 model year
29 == Karmann plant
02691 == Series number within the 1970 model year.

That's all the information that's in there.

You can pay PCNA (Porsche Cars North America) a C-note or it might be more now for a "Certificate of Authenticity". It will probably tell you the original engine number, but I'm not sure if all of them do. And the certificates are transcribed from hand-written notes and often enough have errors, particularly in the option codes associated with a particular VIN.


...Then again, as a 1970 914-4, we know that this would originally have come with a W-code 1.7 liter engine with D-jetronic fuel injection.

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