After hearing people go on and on about 914.043.0001 being the first production 914/6 I decided to contact Marc at Porsche who has access to the Kardexs
and here is what he wrote:

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So that Make PCNA and now Porsche in Germany who have said #11 was the first.

Hey, Glenn! Have you seen any of the old articles about #17? One of the vendors at the Partsheaven swap evidently used to own it, and mentioned that it was covered in a Panorama issue many years ago...

--DD

#11 shows up at the G and R. Tony is a great guy and has a 914-GT also.

here's the artice and a little additional text, that I saved in my files

"I got one of the 1st 914/6s in the USA. 9140430017. This was the car, that the Panorama featured in their 1st road test.
The car was Yellow, and soon after the road test, the car was painted Black, and a 2.4 Motor W/airport gears was installed."

I should have known that someone here would have the article.

--DD

Until somebody finds 914.043.0001 sitting in a storage unit somewhere in SoCal ...

Where's the rest of the article? It was just getting good.

Is #11 the same as #4?

Not even close ...

#4 was a prototype. #11 is (apparently) the first production 914-6. Two very different things.

--DD

Why did I know you were going to say that

I found it in a field. The guy wasn't doing anything with it so I had it towed to my shop.

Stay tuned.

Hey.....that was mine!!!

I think he had #70

March 1972
914.043.0070 - 2.5 liter, 250 HP engine. Transmission w/close ratio gears & LSD, Ginther suspension, 9 mags w/ 3 sets of tires. Special body & paint. Concour winner at Sun Valley. Looks, performance & handling are unmatched $9K complete w/ all spares Peter Sandholdt

Now that's funny.

Convert it to a Grasshopper. That will make it really rare!

From the paint on the wheels it looks like it already was a grasshopper. I FOUND IT!!

Stop making stuff up, Eric.

actually, I owned

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Well, Porsche also told us that all 914 prototype cars were crushed when production began.

And we all know how that story ended ...

All of us don't! How many known prototypes are out there?

At least four that we know of still existing. Was it five?

The Porsche (silver) and Piech 914-8 cars were built from prototypes.

The Sportomatic prototype is sitting in Germany right now and is either awaiting or currently under restoration.

And there's the infamous "Number Four" that was sold in the US and driven as a road car before being left to rot. And be the subject of Way Too Much Drama ™.

--DD

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

Excellent thanks. Does the documentation in this thread mean that VIN #11 will be removed from the prototype list?

#11 is known as the first production 914-6

So like Joe said..... Tony's car.

I took a pic of the story board for that car. I try and post it later.


Thanks Gustl

914.043.0011 is not on the prototype list ...

Thanks, apparently I don't read anymore!

Here is the story board shot.....sorry there are no shade trees at the G and R

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Ha.......pretty sure that was Jim Hoyland shadow there and my lovely wife on the left

Yes, that is one of Tony's cars.

Please post this document, I have never seen it before. It would be ridiculous seeing how they have 2 high profile prototypes in their museum collection.

I'm pretty sure they weren't planning on crushing those two but all other prototype cars were supposed to be recycled.


I'll have to dig through my stuff ...

As luck would have it, 914.043.0017 is one of the VIN numbers i recovered last week and apparently it's current owner is a member here:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showuser=13683

He signed up two years ago but has never posted ...

I vaguely remember that the VIN was #70 and not #17, something to check on
also i played a april fools joke about #13, should be revised in the database

I know #13 was a joke which is why i linked your thread in the description.


Either way, someone out here in CA claims to have #17 which is a pretty early car and of some interest as such ...

I would be very interested in seeing if it has all the pre-production stuff like 11&12 do.
can you contact them?

PM sent ...

I have the tag somewhere ,,I got it off a 914-6 in the junkyard years ago...
0001 when I find it (moving sucks) I will post a pic...914 was slid into a pole ..I doubt if the driver survived.. I have the wiring..and column parts off it..

You gonna part it out?

Glenn, I got the info, that car #0017 was converted to a race car (don't know when), so I doubt that there remained much of the pre-production stuff

Stoddard will sell a new blank VIN plate to anyone http://www.stoddard.com/00070110118.html

- we may yet discover several "0001"s are out there - maybe on eBay

but the blank VIN plate from Stoddard is the later style, so it will be easy to spot the fake