Original Dash Color, - were many yellow? |
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Original Dash Color, - were many yellow? |
MM1 |
Dec 4 2020, 08:46 PM
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914 obsession continues Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 9-May 18 From: Thousand Oaks, CA Member No.: 22,105 Region Association: Southern California |
I pulled the lower dash off (my Ivory white 73 1.7L) to deal with the steering column recently and was surprised to find yellow paint - I believe this is an original unpainted car . . .
Also please note the red (primer?) under the driver fender in the door jamb. . . I just read in another thread (excerpt below), however that an L96 car also had the yellow bottom dash . . . please enlighten me . . . Anyone have a clue about what colors and why they chose those colors on the original dashes? The bottom of the dash of my L96D car is an odd yellow color. |
davep |
Dec 26 2020, 03:00 PM
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914 Historian Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,143 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Burford, ON, N0E 1A0 Member No.: 1,244 Region Association: Canada |
The removable dash section was painted and assembled separately from the body. The color coat was in whatever color happened to be available at the time; perhaps done during body color changes so as not to waste paint while flushing the guns. Then they had the flat black paint sprayed over the front and top faces.
The handwritten # on the underside of the dash is a production #. The production # and the Karmann body # (stamped on the paint badge and either stamped into the rear trunk floor or on a body tag riveted in the front trunk) are independent date codes, but for the 914/4 are almost 95% the same as one another. For some 35 years I thought they might be always the same, then I was able to get source for factory data and found a few that differed. Then I was able to prove the handwritten # was the production #, and the other was a Karmann body #. |
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