1975 Door DOT/VIN Sticker - Was CA different? Options

[DaveB]

The DOT sticker I have on my door doesn't look like what I see on other 1975 914's. The PPS said my car was Equipped for California. This is what the current sticker looks like:



Was this done just for California?

Thanks,

DaveB

[wonkipop]

my mate rang back with more info.
admittedly we are just australians with whatever we get.
but he has mercs from 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
a 600 series.
some stuttgart taxis.
a harmless 4 cylinder 80s middle class station wagon.
and a fried early 90s v8 sedan.

all the plates are remarkably consistent.
made in germany.
mb could not be swerved.

as to VW.
its owned to varying extents by the german govt.
state of saxony.
i forget how it works but it may as well be nationalised.
20-30% shareholding, however you do the numbers and when you do the numbers.
but always 51% of the board.

for want of a better word its subject to being "politically correct".
in line with govt.

as to porsche.
very coy. village cottage industry identity.
the boys from stuttgart.
where is that again?
and aren't the family austrian.

i don't know about bmw.

but that sticker is fascinating that snuck through.

and if porsche had anything to do with it, like VW they would have turned sideways and said, i dunno, whatever. but i doubt they had anything to do with it. the sticker came out of vw inventory for a vw produced car.

porsche were making 9000 cars a year.
reprint a vin sticker if its wrong.
VW were making 9000 cars a day.
thats a big decision placing the sticker order.

i dunno how big the order was for supply of vin stickers.
a month. a week. a quarter.
but i reckon that sticker that the feds ordered the recall on (and they must have) got someone sacked in VW or sent to the cleaning department. there would have been a scapegoat for management indecision/what do we do etc"
because they just would not put a name on it? despite the us feds coming at them.
and its so obvious it is designed to allow the name of the country to be included.

but VW was not a private company or didn't have fully private shareholders like all the other. auto companies
it had the govt. breathing over its shoulders with a hefty 51% distorted interest in it, to stop foreign takeovers. despite the govt. owning only about a quarter to a third of it.

must have been very funny when the feds ordered the recall on the stickers.

and why not recall the 5 years of cars before that while they were at it?