QUOTE(morsmanlaw @ Dec 18 2016, 01:18 PM)
Correct - it is an original California car. I had the smog stuff taken off at Rennsport in Tulsa and have it all in a box. Not decided whether to sell it off or keep it for a future owner. The car went to Vancouver, BC, and then to Calgary, AB, where I bought it from Porsche Centre Calgary.
The areas around the fuel tank and brake master cylinder have clearly never been painted, and are obviously Scarlet Red. There's not a speck of Nepal Orange on the car. The chassis number on the Karmann tag matches the number on the tag next to the passenger-side headlight motor.
At this point, I think I am leaning toward Hans or Franz having a bad day in 1974, though the idea of contacting Porsche directly is interesting. Do you have the number for that department, or should I just contact the local Porsche dealer?
IMHO, always keep the original parts & equipment, including the smog crap & if you swapped out transaxles etc. on any other work. With these 914s being rediscovered as the other older aircooled P-cars reach unobtanium values for mere mortals, the 914s will continue to raise in value, & all original & matching numbers parts/cars are key to this value.
The Karmann Plate on the front driver's door jamb cannot match the one in the frunk, since the latter is the VIN & the Karmann has only Chassis No. & Paint Code. Karmann Plate should match the Chassis no. stamped in the rear floor area of your rear trunk.
As for the Frans/Hans bad day - that really is more unlikely than an obvious incorrect COA - which you clearly have with an incorrect for model year paint code & name.
Again, if your car's respray was a total car stripped to bare metal, you will have no way to know nor find any original paint, & the current red will "look" as if original. If so, then it is IMPOSSIBLE to tell if it was repainted - other than by the official records.
A good high quality total strip to bare metal full body color change can be that good. In fact, the factory paint jobs left unpainted areas in the fuel tank compartment, under the dash, etc. where the spray booth just didn't hit - so if it's perfectly painted all red with no overspray-ish fade-out behind & down inside your car's fuel compartment area, then that in itself is evidence of a full repaint - whether or not a color change.
You asked us the question on it, so you'll have to do the research with PCNA to ferret out what the original Kardex really has on it for paint code, since the COA is clearly in error their "Scarlet (Mars) Red/H3." designation. This is no different with what you'd do on a legal case research, by which example I'm assuming that you're a lawyer with your morsman
law screen name - & if not, then it's still what you'd expect your own lawyer to do - & not assume nor guess -
IF you really want the answer.
Verifying that the original paint code was indeed L20C won't change the car's history, & it won't force you to change it back to Nepal Orange if you prefer the current Red. It's just a matter of getting your facts straight on your documentation, for a query you made of us on here.
The PCNA 800# is at the first link, while their COA forms are at the 2nd link as an fyi -
but don't put that in & pay another $120 for a new COA, when they have the duty to correct your current COA since it is obviously incorrect, since IF the Scarlet Red were in fact the original color despite the Karmann Plate, then it should read "
L31M Scarlet Red".
http://www.porsche.com/usa/dialogue/contactandinformation/ ... pick the appropriate auto-answer menu numbers for Customer Care, etc. to COAs
http://www.porsche.com/usa/accessoriesands...tion/documents/Lastly, if you still don't believe me that PCNA makes mistakes on COAs & car records - with my 914, aside from their insistence that the #31 was a Black rather than its true Beige interior, they also tried to claim that: per their records my early `73 914-2.0 "914S" built 8/31/72, was not sold new until September of 1974!!
When in fact I'm the 2nd owner since 12/75 & have the original CA-DMV Title & all Registration Cards since then showing that it was in fact sold in CA on 11/6/72, here in Orange County CA. Again, they refused to remove the inaccurate sales record from my car until I contacted the supervisor to insist & sent a photo of my first 1975 Reg Card with the date on it!
I'm trying to very clearly give you the unequivocal message that the most probable culprit in this paint color dilemma of yours is PCNA's COA -
which is unequivocally in error with at least their "Scarlet (Mars) Red/H3." reference, which in any case should be corrected to "Scarlet Red/L31M" - even if the Kardex says it is that color & not the Karmann Plate's "Nepal Orange/ L20C"!!
Tom
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