Porsche building cars without a VIN? (911), 914s also, maybe? |
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Porsche building cars without a VIN? (911), 914s also, maybe? |
74ravenna |
Jul 11 2017, 04:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 471 Joined: 19-October 14 From: nh Member No.: 18,032 Region Association: North East States |
Hi all,
Last week a coworker sent me a photo of a 911 without a VIN. Its a factory built race car that the owner bought new around 1970 (i think) and put the car away, never really drove it i guess. To look at the photo you'd think it was a nut and bolt restoration, but its all original! So, did Porsche actually build cars without a VIN in situations like this? I can't help but think that they had to put some sort of numbers/ID on it. Did they build any 914s in this same manner? Steve |
Tom_T |
Jul 13 2017, 09:52 AM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
Thanx Glen!
That's good "documentation" for those who have never heard of a "legal body swap". There's a body shop here in Orange CA who had a 914-6 in for a resto maybe 10-15+ years ago, who didn't check the longs 1st, & jacked up the rear end & it literally snapped in half, so they had to get a BIW or another shell for the guy to rebuild it & transfer the VIN & Chassis Nos., but I got that from the shop owner when we were talking about it sitting in his shop on "display" until the owner paid the balance & picked it up (gone a week later). Unfortunately they've switched to doing only accident repair on late madels, cuz it was a nice resto/swap on the -6. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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