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914/4: 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 914/6: 70 71 72
vin # location 914-6, vin # location 914-6 |
orclean1 |
Sep 12 2017, 07:51 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 26-August 17 From: NY Member No.: 21,378 Region Association: North East States |
1970 914-6 did they have 4 vin# locations
1.silver tag near right headlight motor 2.number on passenger side wheel well inside front trunk and did the number have a star in the beginning and end of number 3.a pillar driver side 4.driver side door jam any pics would be helpful |
bretth |
Sep 12 2017, 09:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 899 Joined: 23-June 15 From: Central TX Member No.: 18,882 Region Association: Southwest Region |
You are correct about all locations
EDIT: Sorry I was confusing the door jam and the chassis plate area and also forgetting about the Vin behind the windshield. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welcome.png) |
toolguy |
Sep 13 2017, 09:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,267 Joined: 2-April 11 From: San Diego / El Cajon Member No.: 12,889 Region Association: Southern California |
A post pillar has the vin only
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cedric9146 |
Sep 14 2017, 04:16 AM
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I have a nr in my rear truk stamped . Whats that ?
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toolguy |
Sep 14 2017, 07:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,267 Joined: 2-April 11 From: San Diego / El Cajon Member No.: 12,889 Region Association: Southern California |
The trunk stamp, located directly in the center under the latch on factory 6 cars, is the Karman body number. On a real 6, it is 6 digits and starts with '13'
On four's it is in the lower right corner. |
cedric9146 |
Sep 14 2017, 07:49 AM
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gcrotvik |
Sep 15 2017, 07:29 AM
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Jeff Bowlsby, Jan 7 2006, 04:17 PM
Chassis Plate data: Chassis Production Number and Paint Code: The chassis production number is found in two places, on the chassis plate attached to the front drivers door jamb and also stamped into the right rear trunk floor. The chassis production number is actually a code telling us the consecutive number of the particular chassis, and the date production was initiated on that particular chassis. The chassis production number decodement is: WW-D-9-5XX Where: WW = the week of a given calendar year D = the day of the week of the calendar year (Monday =1) 9 = the code for the Karmann Factory at Osnabrueck where all 914 chassis were fabricated. 5XX = the consecutive chassis number, beginning with number 500 each day for 1974 Porsche 914 cars, begins with 000 for 1975-76 cars. |
gms |
Nov 7 2017, 10:10 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,694 Joined: 12-March 04 From: Chicagoland Member No.: 1,785 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
And what does that karman nr say about your car? Karmann number: 1970 starts with 130 ####, 1971 starts with 131#### and 1972 starts with 132####. They are serial number indicating the order of produced not a combination code like the 4 cylinder cars. The VIN number is order of completion. They are stamped in the center of the rear trunk on the 1970 914/6 and on the passenger side of the rear of the trunk for 1971 and 1972. 914/6s do not have the Karmann number stamped in the badge, just the paint code. US cars were required to have VIN plate on the driver's side window frame and a DOT sticker in the driver's door jam. |
dr914@autoatlanta.com |
Nov 7 2017, 03:44 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 7,820 Joined: 3-January 07 From: atlanta georgia Member No.: 7,418 Region Association: None |
early early cars also had the vin stamped in front of the right rear shock tower
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Jonathan Livesay |
Nov 7 2017, 04:30 PM
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My car, vin# 9140430275 has 130410 stamped in the center of the trunk, but the paint code tag is L21E which I thought was the paint code for 4 cyl. cars, and it's got a Karmann # on the tag: 1319589. Is it likely that that tag was added at some point, or could it have started out with both Karmann numbers somehow?
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gms |
Nov 7 2017, 08:28 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,694 Joined: 12-March 04 From: Chicagoland Member No.: 1,785 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
My car, vin# 9140430275 has 130410 stamped in the center of the trunk, but the paint code tag is L21E which I thought was the paint code for 4 cyl. cars, and it's got a Karmann # on the tag: 1319589. Is it likely that that tag was added at some point, or could it have started out with both Karmann numbers somehow? I would be inclined to believe that the Karmann badge is not the original. Your car was probably built in January of 1970, the number on the Karmann badge indicates March 23rd 1970. Porsche was on VIN in the 914.043.1100 range at the end of March and I doubt they made 89 sixes in a day. |
larryM |
Dec 29 2017, 05:18 PM
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emoze Group: Members Posts: 891 Joined: 1-January 03 From: mid- California Member No.: 65 Region Association: Northern California |
iirc some cars had the vin stamped on a metal tab under the dash, directly above the ashtray - i had 2 of those, both rusty junkers (043-2294 - & - 1498) - it's not easy to locate & nearly impossible to photo on a car that has the dash intact
i failed to think it was important enuf to get a picture of it on 1498, for 2294 the remaining pic (dated 2007) i have is too fuzzy to use ((crummy camera, too close to focus, etc, & i discarded a lot of pics of stuff i no longer had after-a-crash-PC upgrade ) i tho't it was common - like 911's "secret" under dash number which i learned about from Jim Breazeale (E.A.S.Y.) when i bought a salvage-title 911 that allegedly came from his yard circa 1977-78; iirc Jim (circa 2008) said 914's also had it & told me where to look a prior long-ago thread on this topic does not confirm that 914's had this; and i never knew to look on any of the dozen -4's i'd owned |
mepstein |
Dec 29 2017, 06:39 PM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,239 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I just looked at 3 metal (914-4) dashes- ‘71, 73 & 75. No vin tag on any of them.
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davep |
Jan 13 2018, 05:53 PM
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On both the 914/4 and the 914/6 the chassis # is hand written with a grease pencil. This is on the underside of the dash in the area over the ashtray, and could cover 10" in length. These are often very faded. Nearly impossible to see with the dash installed.
The 1970 914/6 has a short body chassis # with the year digit missing while the dash # does have the year digit in place. For early 914/6 the dash and body numbers generally will not match, but will be close; later they became synchronized somewhere near 2600. In 1970 model year the chassis # in the rear trunk floor was stamped in the center for both models. From 1971 model year the numbers were in front of the right tail light housing. I do not know if this was strictly a model year change or if there was a transition period. At least one very late 1970 MY 914/6 with Sporto has a 1971 MY body. At present there is a concerted effort to collect data on the 914/6 from COA's. It would be very useful to add chassis number data and dates from the compliance decal. |
larryM |
Jan 14 2018, 01:58 PM
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emoze Group: Members Posts: 891 Joined: 1-January 03 From: mid- California Member No.: 65 Region Association: Northern California |
???? - by whom & obtained from what sources?
At present there is a concerted effort to collect data on the 914/6 from COA's. It would be very useful to add chassis number data and dates from the compliance decal. are we invited to submit our COA's to someone? fwiw - my germany origin car, gray-imported in 1976, has no compliance decal, and i'd be surprised if any other RoW cars have one |
davep |
Jan 22 2018, 08:56 PM
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914 Historian Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,137 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Burford, ON, N0E 1A0 Member No.: 1,244 Region Association: Canada |
???? - by whom & obtained from what sources? are we invited to submit our COA's to someone? fwiw - my germany origin car, gray-imported in 1976, has no compliance decal, and i'd be surprised if any other RoW cars have one You can submit to me since I am entering them into a database. Compliance decal only on North American cars; but this is the best way to date the production completion of a car. The existing COA I have came from owners submissions in the past and from those posted on the web. Transmission #'s that are not listed on the COA, but known should be submitted also. |
dug |
Feb 11 2018, 07:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 182 Joined: 26-December 06 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 7,382 Region Association: Northern California |
Glenn Stazak has been running a 914-6 registry page for a few decades.
http://www.stazak.com/914reg/ A few of us have been compiling the VIN-engine-chassis mapping for quite some time, me included. cheers, dug ???? - by whom & obtained from what sources? are we invited to submit our COA's to someone? fwiw - my germany origin car, gray-imported in 1976, has no compliance decal, and i'd be surprised if any other RoW cars have one You can submit to me since I am entering them into a database. Compliance decal only on North American cars; but this is the best way to date the production completion of a car. The existing COA I have came from owners submissions in the past and from those posted on the web. Transmission #'s that are not listed on the COA, but known should be submitted also. |
gms |
Feb 12 2018, 11:22 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,694 Joined: 12-March 04 From: Chicagoland Member No.: 1,785 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
DaveP, Larry Lee and myself are currently working on a 914-6 Compliance Sticker Project , any information helps us close the gaps and production volumes per month.
We also collect the COA to give us engine numbers, options and original colors which allow us to make engine number graphs and percentage of colors. |
914andy |
Apr 6 2018, 07:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 23-December 11 From: Nashville tn Member No.: 13,929 Region Association: None |
I have a 74 LE ***914552.
The grease pencil # (red) on bottom side of dash is 829556. Don't know what that means... has my dash been changed out in the past or did the workers just grab items out of a bin? andy |
mepstein |
Apr 6 2018, 08:02 PM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,239 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
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