What information can be pulled form a VIN number?

Is it possible to tell what displacement engine the car originally had?
4702902691

I know the second 2 numbers tell it was a 1970 MY

Not much. Since your's is a '70 914-4, it came from the factory with a 1.7L D-Jet engine and 5 speed manual transmission. There are other tags about build date and paint code but they are not on the VIN tag.

thanks
didnt know if thye made 2.0 in 1970 or not

4 cylinder 2.0 first installed in '73.

47 == 914-4
0 == 1970 model year
29 == Karmann plant
02691 == Series number within the 1970 model year.

That's all the information that's in there.

You can pay PCNA (Porsche Cars North America) a C-note or it might be more now for a "Certificate of Authenticity". It will probably tell you the original engine number, but I'm not sure if all of them do. And the certificates are transcribed from hand-written notes and often enough have errors, particularly in the option codes associated with a particular VIN.


...Then again, as a 1970 914-4, we know that this would originally have come with a W-code 1.7 liter engine with D-jetronic fuel injection.

--DD

http://www.914world.com/specs/productionnumbers.php

http://www.914world.com/specs/engnumbs.php

!!!!! Your VIN is not in the world database! Go up to "914 Info" in the top right then go to "Members VIN numbers" and add the details of your car or follow the following link

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=membervins