1973 914 2.0 with only 5894 miles "shown" Options

[perrysan]

Dubious if the car has 5894 original miles...

https://www.diamondmotorworks.com/1973-pors...arga-c-4254.htm

Short video of the outside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cAVkUUa1Xs

Has the VIN listed as "473291972" but assuming they mean 4732901972 which isn't in the VIN database.

Has the front euro turn signal lenses and the kit to relocate the parking light to the bottom, so some previous owner was detail oriented lol..

[jrmdir]

Yes, that's not a '73 speedo - should be 150MPH. Also, FWIW, '73s had silver PORSCHE lettering on the engine grille.

I was hesitant to think someone went to all the trouble to forge documents, but there's just too much wrong - including the way "Dick Barbour" was always inserted with a different font - even in the welcome letter. So George Duncan had so many new members to welcome (in 1973) that he pre-typed a supply of welcome letters and had them on hand to add names & dates? Using a different typewriter. Also, suspicious amount of extra info re: the Chrome Plated card holder and where you might put it.

But what finally convinced me is the proportional spacing.



Ron

[nathanxnathan]

ou might put it.

But what finally convinced me is the proportional spacing.

Ron

Spacing of modern fonts, they call it "hinting" where the font knows how close to put certain letters together.

There's an even more telling hint in your example, when an "f" and an "i' are typed next to each other the font will replace the 2 glyphs with a "smart ligature" which is a single character so the tip of the "f" sort of meshes with the dot of the "i". A typewriter would not do this.

Another tell is the double spaces between sentences. With a typewriter you would indeed have to put 2 spaces after a period to make it look right. A modern font, using hinting, automatically puts a larger space after a period. A lot of people put the 2 spaces in still — so many people that even young people that never used a typewriter think it's correct to do so. It ends up looking like there are 3 spaces (as a typewriter would make them) between sentences.

I'm a graphic designer by trade, and it strikes me as glaringly obvious that it's not legit. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)