Factory Rear Emblems 1974, Black Metal or Plastic Options

[914Sixer]

Sourcing emblems for Creamsicle. I always thought they were plastic for 1974. LE is an original car with metal emblems, so which is correct?

[scallyk9]

My LE (-14854), built in February 1974 came to me with its original rear emblems in plastic. My white 1974 MY 914, built in November of 1973, had plastic rear emblems although it had been restored.

[wonkipop]

My LE (-14854), built in February 1974 came to me with its original rear emblems in plastic. My white 1974 MY 914, built in November of 1973, had plastic rear emblems although it had been restored.

i'd say your white 74 (nov 73) likely had the plastic badges. thats after/co-incident with the introduction of the 1.8 which did go over to plastic for sure and they start coming out the door at beginning of november 73. there is a few 2.0L mixed in with the predominantly 1.8s produced from nov 73 to end of jan 74. it could also be right at the end of the first batch of 2.0 L cars and the build was started right at the end of october 73 and it received its vin and label in november.

whats its karmann plate number?

it would be interesting data even though its restored and the status of the badges might be uncertain.

basically you got to backtrack with cars you believe to be reasonably original using the k numbers.

we got pretty close with quite a few of the changes in terms of dates when it came to the 1.8s. JeffBowlsby also has lots of data from the 2.0 L cars he has tracked for his LE research which covers the months from feb 74 on during the period the LEs came off the line.

but less is known on those early 74 MY 2.0 L cars.