I am trying to figure out just how late my 1975 914 may be. The question is is there any idea out there on how many 914's rolled off the assembly line each day? My 914 is 274 to the last 1975 vin.

What is the chassis number?

How many beers did the guys in Osnabruck have at lunch? Just kidding. If I remember right they were in a hurry to finish up the 914 line because Karman had a contract to start producing something else. This would have entailed the retooling of the entire line.

Don't know but 120000cars / 7 years / 40 weeks / 5 days = 85 cars a day.

40 weeks because here GM most times shut down production for july and august.

At 48 weeks/year:
120000/7/48/5 = 71 cars per day

Of course this is just a rough guess, production numbers were different from year to year.

If you translate the Chassis No. Dave mentions above, then you can get the actual date (-ish) when yours was built, by using a 1975 calendar to count weeks, using the chart below.

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Note that the 95 was the Karmann plant denoter, & the 5 would change to 6 or 7 for 100 or 200 + XX number of cars pr day, & contrary to the info on the chart, the 6/7 were used in 74 MYs too, when they were building 20-30K 914s a year.

At 274 from the end, you're probably a week or so from the end of the 75 MY cars, I'd guess. Total production numbers by calendar year are at the link below, but that would mix 2 MYs into each calendar year's numbers.

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

My early 73 has the dubious notoriety of being the fastest 1-day build 914 on 8/31/72 - but they weren't really accurate as to the day nor time of build.


Tom
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Mark, the 75 MY & 75 calendar year production was a bit more complicated, due to the end of the run producing 914s & switching to 924s for Jan 76 that you mentioned.

They only built 7925 in `75, & all of the 76 MY were 2.0s & built in the last half of `75. So the 4100 2.0 76's deduct from the 5469 of them built in `75 which were 2.0s - netting about 1369 + 2455 1.8's = 3824 / 7 (July end of 75 MY) = 546/mo / 5 days/week = 109-110+/- per day - & more if you don't count any production for July on Hans' & Fritz's month off!

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

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


Tom
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Yep did that on on the fly I didn't look at production numbers /year etc
I also knew that number could be low.

When my dad worked at the GM truck plant a new truck rolled off the line every 90 seconds, that's 360 trucks per shift!
Times 3 shifts that's around 1000 trucks per day. And they couldn't keep up with the orders.