VIN Page Options

[robkammer]

Hello all: I'm new to the 914 world and am hoping to add a 2.0 to our garage soon. I have seen references to a VIN page in the forums but can't find it on the site.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks

[wonkipop]

snooped around in my files which are mostly re 74 Ljet.
but i collected examples either side - 73 1.7 s and 75 1.8 s.

here are two 1,7 examples with the parcel box as porsche called it.

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its much more common in 73 1.7s than later 1.8s from 74 on.
a couple of good reasons for that i think.
you could not order the console and gauges that went into the 73 2.0 for the 73 1.7.
as far as i can work out no 73 1.7 ever got the top spec gauge console.
instead the parcel box was what you got when you went full spec on a 1.7.
the american sales sheets refer to it as a console in these 1.7 cars.
one sales sheet lists it as a No Cost option and implies it is part of appearance group 1.7.
the other lists it as an $18.00 charge option. (sort of implies not part of appearance group standard package for that particular car but ordered as a distinct option by the customer? )
but no M-Code for it.

I suspect that a full M code list for the 914 will be hard to find.
it would have been a document held by the VW-Porsche GMBH organisation rather than porsche itself? i know some of the M-Codes on the 914/4 are shared with the VW 411/412. so they are VW M-Codes not Porsche ones.

in 74 (and 75) it was a different story for the 1.8s.
they could be real strippers or they could go full appearance group.
that included the guages and console that went in the 2.0L as well.
@StarBear has one. from factory that way.
thats where the 1.8s are different from the 1.7s.
i think most people after the non stripper type car would have ticked the 1.8 appearance group box and got the full gauge and black vinyl console.
ticking the box for the parcel box would have become far less common. it would have been something you built up from a base model car.
same went for 75.

but according to PET you could still get the parcel bin.

i'll dig around further in my files for the 74 and 75 info.
but its a much rarer thing in those years.

i have one in my car but its unusual in other ways too.
its not appearance group spec like @StarBear s.
but it does have sway bars (factory fitted) and the bin.
but still has star steelies and not alloys.
it was ordered a very particular way.