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I am now quite certain that the factory did install some black door handles. I came to this determination in a roundabout (and expensive) way, starting when my inner hammer mechanic escaped and broke the driver door handle.
As no black ones exist, I picked up a new chrome (Sierra Madre) handle and was surprised to find that my old lock cylinder (after removing the black paint) would not fit the chrome handle. The length was fine, but it fit so tight it could not be turned. At all. Measuring the ID of the handle bores confirmed that the black handle was larger, even with paint on it. The used chrome-handle lock cylinder I bought on line later fit and turned in the new chrome handle just fine. And that used chrome handle cylinder definitely had more clearance when inserted in the old black handle. Measuring the cap ends of the lock cylinder confirmed it – the cylinder from the black handle was larger in diameter. Dissimilar sized handle components are almost certainly no customizer job, and damn sure no hot rod job. The only conclusion I can draw is that Porsche had a supplier make a run of black handles, and for whatever reason some components were made a little different. This fits with what I found when I scraped some black paint from the broken handle: no evidence of chrome ever being applied to the casting. Lastly, there are factory pictures (albeit poor ones) of black A pillar cars that look like they have black handles also. Am I missing another explanation? |
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last emden beetle.
end of german production 1978. base model strip out job. pretty much what i saw. even harsher than i remember. no glove box lid. don't mind the aesthetic. esp. seat fabric. they even dropped their "safety" merc style steering wheel. easy to see direction they were going in with base model product. probably a lot of angst about which bits to de-chrome on their product range from 73 on. rising DM value. the red 914 probably went in front of marketing committees etc - prepped by the styling dept. likely did get its chrome blacked out, would have been a hobby paint job mockup - nothing production line. i like how the door handles stay chrome. reminds me of what an old builder said to me once, you can rip the guts out of a house to make it cheap, but whatever you do, make sure the front door still makes a good impression. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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