Pictures of my unrestored 1975 914. Just got it Options

[22truckie]

This car has 45,000 miles on it. Untouched except for the carpet ( nos carpet has been purchased). Mayan Green is the color. Bought from original owner

[Tom_T]

Get yourself a set of 4 of these OE NOS injectors for your parts stash for this beauty!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/ptd/5653342871.html

As for the paint color being Mayan Yellow - I don't see anything in the window sticker, dealer invoice, nor other documents which indicate it was a custom 98 or 99 paint code special order color, & that was never a standard choice color name used on any 914.

Also do post a pic of the Karmann tag in the front driver's door jamb as Wolfgang said. It will tell you if it was a 98 or 99 for a custom color, or if the sales guy was just using the wrong name for the color.

98 would be another Porsche color special order, so look up colors at the 911/912 websites (their numbers will be different than the 914 VW numbers BTW), &/or at the VW colors at the PPG color charts online.

99 would paint to customer sample, so it could be anything custom ordered.

Otherwise use the code # in the bottom box of the Karmann tag to get the actual color name, at the 914 info link at the top of the 914world page....

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=colors

.... & p914.com has pix of actual known cars in the colors on it's paint colors section.

NOTE - Apparently the p914.com website is still having host problems, so it's not coming up now. Hopefully the owner will fix it soon, since it's an excellent 914 info site!

You can also find the dealer sales brochures for colors at Jeff Bowlsby's website here:

http://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/PaintFabrics.htm

http://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/

Also - it could've been a dealer repaint to customer request - or just to help sell them the car - with the 911 special order Mayan Yellow which I found near the bottom of the chart at this link....

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedispl...een&rows=50

I know that the dealer &/or OO/buyer of my 73 914-2.0 had been repainted to Sahara Beige then Gold by the time I got it in Dec. 75 as the 2nd owner, plus I've talked about the color changes interior & exterior with a PCNA Field Service Mgr. whom I've known since his days at SoCal dealerships, which he confirmed & said that they could swap interiors between 2 cars in 45 mins. complete - so they did do the color sprays at the dealerships.

That may explain why the delivery date is listed as "...by 12/9/74" - in order to give them time to paint it.

You should get with the OO for the whole story, so you can back it up.

Also a COA from Porsche would be a good idea, with such an unusual color on a very original low mile car!

Excellent 914! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

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Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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