matching numbers, porsche 914 vehicles for sale claiming matching numbers Options

[goobstine]

Thank you for helping me work through it. I think i got it. Starting with Wikipedia, the Title VIN and number plate under the front windshield. If your stamped in vin numbers on the right front top fender well and your rear trunk floor just behind your right rear tail light housing are matching your driver door sticker VIN your golden. Now you just need to make sure your engine numbers match the year specified on samba's engine code list. Then your transmission numbers need to match to the year specified by the list provided by Blue sky motorsports chart for the year of the vehicles vin. All of this can be fabricated into any car by a good HACK ! This would qualify as ( Matching Numbers ) I think so ? Thoughts please.

[bbrock]

A COA will note if the VIN matches the engine number number it left the factory with. It will not tell you what the matching engine number was if it doesn't match. I think I saw one person who had a transmission match noted on their COA (could be wrong about that), but normally is noted as "Not Confirmed" at least for 914/4s. When I inquired about that on mine, I was told that PCNA doesn't have records for transmission numbers. My COA does not list the chassis number although both VIN and chassis number are stamped into the chassis of the car.

The information the COA gives about optional equipment is notoriously bad. Mine simply states USA base equipment even though it has the sport package with Fuchs, center console, and factory sway bars. They at least got the interior color correct.

[Racer]

A COA will note if the VIN matches the engine number number it left the factory with. It will not tell you what the matching engine number was if it doesn't match. I think I saw one person who had a transmission match noted on their COA (could be wrong about that), but normally is noted as "Not Confirmed" at least for 914/4s. When I inquired about that on mine, I was told that PCNA doesn't have records for transmission numbers. My COA does not list the chassis number although both VIN and chassis number are stamped into the chassis of the car.

The information the COA gives about optional equipment is notoriously bad. Mine simply states USA base equipment even though it has the sport package with Fuchs, center console, and factory sway bars. They at least got the interior color correct.

The older COA actually provided the factory numbers... Later COA's would ask you for your numbers and confirm if yours was correct or not. It was an odd process change by Porsche.

Now you can have two different types.. with fancy new names... one is just the COA with a new name.. The other has you take you car to a dealer to be "authenticated" and costs like $600.

I have 2 COA's for my 914/6. One from 1990 or so an another from 2016?. There are slight differences between the two but both have the same engine/chassis/vin info.

[ClayPerrine]

A COA will note if the VIN matches the engine number number it left the factory with. It will not tell you what the matching engine number was if it doesn't match. I think I saw one person who had a transmission match noted on their COA (could be wrong about that), but normally is noted as "Not Confirmed" at least for 914/4s. When I inquired about that on mine, I was told that PCNA doesn't have records for transmission numbers. My COA does not list the chassis number although both VIN and chassis number are stamped into the chassis of the car.

The information the COA gives about optional equipment is notoriously bad. Mine simply states USA base equipment even though it has the sport package with Fuchs, center console, and factory sway bars. They at least got the interior color correct.

The older COA actually provided the factory numbers... Later COA's would ask you for your numbers and confirm if yours was correct or not. It was an odd process change by Porsche.

Now you can have two different types.. with fancy new names... one is just the COA with a new name.. The other has you take you car to a dealer to be "authenticated" and costs like $600.

I have 2 COA's for my 914/6. One from 1990 or so an another from 2016?. There are slight differences between the two but both have the same engine/chassis/vin info.

Rusty somehow ended up with 3 COAs for Elwood that he passed along to us. All of them had different listings for the optional equipment, so I always take the info from a COA with a large grain of salt.

Clay