this is interesting, these numbers are straight from Karman's Classic Archive.
they are close to what has been published so far, but still a bit off:

914-4	Jahr	Serie
	1969	48 (Nullserie) /1.537
	1970	20.182
	1971	15.998
	1972	24.510
	1973	27.189
	1974	18.211
	1975	7.921
Total		115.596
914-6	Jahr	Serie
	1969	77
	1970	2.714
	1971	310
	1972	248
Total		3349

Andy, PM me your snail mail address...
I've got that early 914 brochure with pics of the stolen car in it

cool! PM sent ...

Andy

Don't send it to him, that thief Brad might steal it!!!


Geoff

brad? brad who?

Andy

What about the 76?

Big black bumpers need love too....

no, these are the numbers from "Karmann" ...

there were no 914's produced in '76, all '76 models were actually build in '75 ...

Andy

mine was built 12/75 but was it completed then?
I have heard that Karmann built all the chassis and then finished the cars later as Porsche needed them. Thats why most of the last cars came with everything, Porsche was sellling them as the Dealers were ordering them, loaded, to max out the profit as they were selling pretty damn good.

Geoff

karmann classic says:

ALL 914-4 were completely build at karmann and then shipped to porsche.
ALL 914-6 were build at Porsche, karmann only assembled the raw chassis ...

Andy

I am just going by what I have read elsewhere that they welded up all the chassis and painted them using all the available body panels that were good. They then finished the cars as needed for the dealers.
Remember Porsche was even looking to build and assemble the 914 elsewhere and decided it was too expensive to move the whole operation.

Geoff

It is interesting that Porsche did buy out all of VW's ownership of tooling to produce the 914 and 914 parts in 1975.

Do you think they were holding out to see if the 924 would sell?

Maybe to bring it back if 924s tanked??

Or just to hold a gun to our heads on spare parts?

No, Porsche was seriously looking at building the car themselves elsewhere I read. Decided it would be too expensive to move and set up a new production line.
The 924 was a VW project that they dropped and the Audi plant begged Porsche to put their name on it (Porsche did the design work) and sell so the Audi plant wouldn't have to close.

Geoff

So 7,921 for 1975...

that is all the '75s and '76s that were made?

no, that's some of the '75s and all of the '76s.
some '75s were made in '74.

Andy

PS: note that our own 914info section doesn't list 1976 either. there are plenty of sources out there that do the same, it's just that those numbers i posted above came directly from karmann's archive and are a bit different from other sources.
these are production numbers, NOT sales numbers.