914S Badge, Not OEM But Interesting Options

[914Sixer]

HPH has this badge for sale on Ebay for the LOW Price of $199.99. It states that they do not know who manufactured it. SO, if your have a little money you want to burn.

[Larmo63]

I still have the original window sticker that came with my car. It is a 473664 model, and the base price was $5,299.00

Black paint was $187.00 extra + 84.00 for tinted windows.

My '73 is the 1012th car built and has the vinyl "A" pillar trim still intact as I've mentioned before.

The 914S badge would be very cool on my car and a real head scratcher.

By the way, an authentic 914 - 6 badge has an implied "dash" in the casting between the "4" and the "6". The badge we are talking about here doesn't. Pretty big difference.

[Tom_T]

I still have the original window sticker that came with my car. It is a 473664 model, and the base price was $5,299.00

Black paint was $187.00 extra + 84.00 for tinted windows.

My '73 is the 1012th car built and has the vinyl "A" pillar trim still intact as I've mentioned before.

The 914S badge would be very cool on my car and a real head scratcher.

By the way, an authentic 914 - 6 badge has an implied "dash" in the casting between the "4" and the "6". The badge we are talking about here doesn't. Pretty big difference.

Lawrence,

FYI - there are a couple of topics on here about early 73 MY 914s with the windshield frame vinyl "experiment" - but I don't have those links handy anymore. A google search may turn them up if you're interested, but the OP has sold his 914 & moved on, so it doesn't get updated on his VIN list of cars with it anymore.

If you haven't sent Jeff Bowlsby a copy of your window sticker yet to post on his website's WS page as a reference, then please do so, so others can benefit.

Our respective early73 2Ls are only 942 apart at ...1012 & ...1954.

Out of curiosity - what does your chassis no. translate to for build date, & what Month/Year is your IN sticker?

Also, do you know the first sold date of yours? (should be on your early CA-DMV Reg cards)

Mine is 8/31/72 chassis no. build date, 8/72 VIN sticker, & was 1st sold here in OC on11/9/72 - then I bought it from the OO in Dec 75.

Mine was also originally with the windshield frame vinyl, because we found some in the nooks & crannies under trim etc., but that had been removed by the original dealer in Garden Grove/Westminster to do what turned out to be TWO prior repaints from the OE L80E Light Ivory - Sahara Beige which I hadn't been aware of until I started taking her apart for this resto/repair (or if I did, I forgot! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ), & then Gold Metallic when I bought it, & what the OO had.

AFAIK, when I first looked at mine, the OO said that the dealer had repainted to try to sell it better, & it had no evidence of any accident damage nor Bondo, cuz I took a magnet in a cloth all over that body to check it out! The L80E was still intact under the floor mats & in other interior covered areas (& still is).

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