@Patient914Guy The Karmann Production Plate roughly stacks up with the Vin in the front trunk.
its about 9.5 K into 72 MY production.
lets say they built a 100 a day. which they kind of did approximately.
thats about 19-20 weeks of production after 72 start up.
which is around Aug of 1971. (whether its the start of august or later not sure).
19-20 weeks after aug 71 lands at 2nd or 3rd week of Dec 71 at a minimum.
possibly a little later in reality- more like some time in Jan 72.
The K plate says its week 4 of the calendar year its made in (but never indicates the year itself). week 4 = Jan. its a tuesday car. probably 25th Jan 1972.
If the Vin in the windscreen was correct, that would make it about 2.5K into 74 MY production. or about 5-6 weeks into production (assuming a 100 a day).
that would put it at sept 1973 sometime for a K plate. the K plate would have from 36 to 40 as the first two numbers. The Vin in the windscreen does not even come close to the K plate.
L63 on the K plate checks out for willow green.
no willow green in 74 MY as other posters point out.
my conclusion like others is the windscreen Vin plate is suss.
i'd probably agree with Jack Standz suggestion that its a "faked up" 2.0 from way back in the day. could be passed off as one if you were not observant enough to check the other vin stamps. not necessarily stolen. the 2.0 engine in the car kind of points to the fake up.
i've spotted a couple of 74MY 2.0s on BAT that i don't think could ever have been real 2.0s. they were built during the period Nov 73 to Jan 74 and from all the research we have been doing on L jets, all they built for those three months were 1.8 L jets, no 2.0 L cars.