914 LE cars in Japan Options

[JeffBowlsby]

There are 3 known LE cars that are or were in Japan, all are now included on the 914 LE Registry.

I recently found out about Bumblebee VIN 14438, formerly of the Matsuda collection. I think its now owned by a P-car collector in the USA, on the East Coast.

Note that it appears to be a Euro-equipment car, with Japan sidemarker lenses and US side stripes. And of course, painted 4-bolt Fuchs.

[Gustl]

QUOTE (bowlsby @ May 7 2005, 01:25 PM)

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well, I thought a lot and several times about these sheets of information

Due to the fact that these sheets are out from a german "Porsche Internal Book", I'd say the printed date "1.3.74" means 1st of March, 1974. As you can see at the first sheet you posted, it says "Available: as of April 74 production". So I'd say it's pretty clear about the date.
This won't mean that there is no such info sheet with nearly the same info and an earlier date on it - we might just don't have it ...

The second sheet just says, that the euro equipment isn't available with the US cars and vice versa.
Therefore you need the 3rd sheet. This one explaines which model numbers are from wich car - without the "Gran-Tourisme-Equipment".
Sheet 2 says, that the "Gran-Tourisme-Equipment" is available with the standard 914 and the "914-Comf." (which means the appearance group).

So I guess, that means:
if you ordered a 473.544 (914 with appearance group for the USA/Canada market) with the opiton M470, your model code automatically turned into 473.644

if you ordered a 473.214 (914 standard for "worldwide") with the option M471, your model code automatically turned into 473.644 too

I'm sure that it depends on your basic car if you have targa vinyl and chrome trim or not.
According to this infos it's no longer curious to me that there are GT and LE cars with AND without targa vinyl and chrome trim on 'em. But it seems to be a fact, that all US/Canada LE cars came with mahles but all "rest of world" cars with fuchs - even if we know the photos of the GTs with mahles. This would match with the DGVWPB as well.

O.k., that's just my opinion after reading and thinking on those infos ...

But it takes me wonder that the DGVWPB says, the GT/LE cars were only available with the 2.0 L engine, but these sheets show 1.8 L engines, too (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)