and 74 esoteric stuff.
got hold of some further photos of Dr. Horst Marchart 74 1.8 from porsche museum.
Click to view attachment dashboard detail.
Click to view attachment at first i thought i was looking at an EGR light.
but........whats an EGR light doing on a 74 euro spec 1.8 with twin carbs and zero emissions gear?
Click to view attachment and why does it look different to the real deal EGR / CAT lights that were in 75 cali 1.8s?
Click to view attachment then i realised the EGR "light" in Dr. Marchart's car isn't a light its a mockup.
an orange printed label stuck to the dashboard face with a piece of circular transparent tape.
the designers/engineers at porsche must have been using Dr. Marchart's car to test out the positioning of the lights during 1974.
pretty amazing the artefact is still there stuck on the dashboard 50 years later.
probably had a CAT light mockup "light" as well but it peeled off somewhere down the years?
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anyway i can date this car i reckon even without a VIN number.
thanks to all the minutiae we stumbled over with the L jet research.
front trunk.
Click to view attachment black headlight side covers + all cardboard tubes to heater/fresh air box.
= pre jan 01 1974.
after jan 01 74 headlight covers are grey until april 74.
when black again post april the heater box tubes have been changed to black plastic.
rear trunk.
Click to view attachment no small formed dent to carry the engine bay charcoal cannister.
even though euro spec cars did not have vapor emissions equipment fitted they used the same body shells as the USA spec cars. the dent was there after 18/19 Nov 1973.
here is a euro spec 75 german delivered.
Click to view attachment USA spec 74 1.8 with dent.
Click to view attachment USA spec 75 1.8 with dent.
dent still there even though cannister position changed to beside the battery in 75.
Click to view attachmentthis places the marchart 74 euro spec as very likely built before round about 18/19 november 73.
but there is more.
the european models have owners manuals following exactly the same pattern as USA spec cars that we tracked a couple of years ago.
ie there is a first owners manual dating from August 1973 print which has only 2.0 on the cover. there is a second owners manual dating from October 1973 print which includes 1.8 and there is a third print dating November 1973 print also inclusive of 1.8 on the cover.
I conclude (probably reasonably) that 1.8 euro spec production even though it was not an L jet engine did not commence until the same time as the L jets - end of October/Start of November 1973.
that would place the porsche museum car in a Vin Band covering the first three weeks of Nov 1973. approx 07500 - 09500.
have to get someone to go to the museum and open the trunk and get the Vin number one day to see if my prediction is correct.
i think is mileage is probably correct. less than 20,000 km car (12,500 miles).
or at the least its once around the clock but given its kilometers = 120,000km = 70,000 miles. either number is plausible. and still low mileage.
i thought it might have been repainted and restored.
but i am inclined to think its a very low mileage original car.
given the EGR mockup artefact? not meddled with much at all since the 70s.
likely why Dr, Marchart donated it to the collection?
whcih also means its black back pad in the engine bay is probably genuine?
@JeffBowlsby ?
another thing i spotted with the 1.8s.
some seem to have black back pads rather than grey.
i think somewhere in there was an alternative supplier for those pads - a bit like the windscreens. being either sigla or kinonglas depending on date. there were batches of cars supplied with either one brand or the other.
Click to view attachmentother examples from L jet files of black engine bay back pad similar to porsche museum car. black pads have a kind of ripple surface finish almost like orange peel paint.
11/73 Vin 08482
Click to view attachment 11/73 Vin 08442
Click to view attachmentVin 09271
Click to view attachment05/74 Vin 17931
Click to view attachmentthey seem to pop up at start of 1.8 production in nov 73 and appear again towards end later 74.
my 01/74 has the more usual smoother grey engine bay pad as do most examples on file.
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