in an effort to fill up our ever growing database of 914s, i hereby ask you to please surrender any information about cars you have, had, drolled over, cut apart, burned to the ground, drove off a cliff or otherwise came in contact with (ewh ) ...

we need:

VIN # (windshield or pass-side fender-top)
Paint Codes (on plate @ front door-jamb)
Chassis Numbers (on plate @ headlight bucket)
Production Numbers (on sticker @ rear door-jamb)
Number stamped into the rear-trunk floor


please post here or email/pm me directly!

thank you very much,
Andy

4762902424
4742916915
4752908227
4742904533
4732921741
4732922617
4722916507
4762903612
4732900867
4752905668
4752904595
4712905426
4712901129
4752908422
4742913369

a few of the above are from me, that rest from this thread I posted earlier in the year:

\"lost forever\" VIN thread

sorry, only VIN numbers, not other data

Can I post my current street car that I am so frustrated with that I might take a sledge hammer to it tonight?

lol
brant

no. we do not promote domestic abuse here ...

you should give her a instead.
Andy

aghhhhhh........


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4732907875 - black - build 11/72 - door jam 463960 & L041 - 2.0L

4732902474 - unknown - build 9/72 - 2.0L

4742902381 - Zambezi Green - build 11/73? - 2.0L (Didn't open trunk or door- I wrecked this one).

"May they rest in pieces"

Very Fitting....I can add 2, have to get the info together. http://www.usmemorialday.org/taps.html

Ok, here's what I've got:

73 1.7 salvage title (for sale!)
Car is yellow and looks to have always been

VIN from door jamb sticker and windshield: 4732921049
VIN from front trunk fenderwell: 4732919299
Chassis # (Plate at headlight bucket): Plate missing!
Prod# (date?): 5/73
Numbers from karmann plate: Karosserie # 1849580 Kunstharzlack L 13 K
Rear trunk number was same as Karoserie #


73 2.0 roller I just bought
VIN from everywhere (yay) 4732922867
Chassis # (plate from headlight bucket): Same as VIN
Prod# (date?): 5/73
Numbers from karmann plate: Karosserie # 2159590 Kunstharzlack L 64 K
Rear trunk number was same as Karoserie #

Anyone know what all these numbers mean?

ive only got the vin from my parts car..ill find out the rest and post it all soon

Most of the numbers are pretty obvious, but the chassis number is a date code.
The VIN is the production line serial number and is the primary number by which the car is known.
The 914/4 chassis number is a body date code and is of the form: WWD9xYY
Here WW is the week of the year and D the day of assembly.
xYY is the sequence number during the day and x may be 0, 1, 5, 6
up to sometime late in calendar year 1974, September perhaps, a base code of 9500 was used to which was added the sequence number. If the sequence number was over 100, then you could have 96yy.
This style was followed by a base code of 9000, so you could have 91yy. It is very unlikely there were any 9100's since production was not very high after 1973. This change of code probably coincided with the dropping of the code from the Karmann badge and having a separate tag riveted in the front trunk. The data plate was moved from the right headlight support to the fuel tank bulkhead.

1849580 decodes as week 18, Thursday, 80th body built that day

463960 SLITS is missing the last digit from his chassis number, but 96 indicates a good production day

The fact that the chassis numbers and VIN's only roughly track each other indicates that bodies were assembled, painted and warehoused. Later, they were taken from the warehouse and put into final assembly where the VIN was assigned. Some bodies languished for months before final assembly. It is very interesting to analyse the data. So, keep the data coming.

"463960 SLITS is missing the last digit from his chassis number, but 96 indicates a good production day"


Hey, I'm old, blind and deaf - I'm lucky I could even see that

Keep it to yourself Howard

Hi Andy, I went thru the cars at the wrecking yard where I store my parts cars and got the numbers off of them. Here is what I have:

My Cars:
Dad’s Car (my 70):

Windshield vin #: 4702910141
Chassis number is the same
Fender vin number is the same
No production sticker
Paint Code: L97D
Trunk number: 2549553

My 1970 parts tub:

Fender vin number: 4702905705
No Windshield vin plate
No Chassis Number plate
No production sticker
No Paint Code plate
Trunk number: 0919554

My Yellow Flared Car:

Windshield vin #: 427917817
Chassis number is the same
Fender vin number is the same
No production sticker
No Paint Code plate
No Trunk number

I haven't gotten the latest one (a 71) out there yet, but I'll post the numbers when I do.


Junked cars:

Windshield vin #: 4742907215
Chassis number is the same
Fender vin number is the same
No production sticker
Paint Code plate unreadable
No Trunk number visible

Windshield vin #: 4752903247
Chassis number is the same
Fender vin number is the same
Production sticker Number 10/74
Paint Code: L95K
No Trunk number visible

Windshield vin #: 4752906517
Chassis number is the same
Fender vin number is the same
Production sticker Number 12/74
Paint Code: L97B
No Trunk number visible

so sad... the 1970 car with no front trunk floor is soon to be ah no more...
here are the digits:

and

and
da da de dum da da da de dum!

ah, dino, you make me sad...

so, do i get to help take it apart? can we build you a riding lawn mower out of it?