I would really like to find some factory assembly line photos of the 914... I searched the club and google, and only came up with a few. Anybody have new ones?? the most interesting ones to me were the two with the 914 being assembled on the cellet bench. here are the pics I found. Please add yours if you have any.

Most interesting is the brown car....that´s a 916....

yup, found that while surfing google. A guy took a tour of the factory, and saw it and didn't think it was anything special until after he returned back to the states.

Please post larger pics of the ones above if you have them barry...

sorry, the first three were the largest I could get them. The first pic of the GT on the assembly line couldn't find the link when I clicked the pic, so the mini pic on google was the largest I could get..the two of the 916 were just that big...on a website... I'll see if I can email the guy and get larger photos.

I have a couple more on my website under 'Vintage 914 Photos'

here is the link to the 916 photos, I couldn't find anyone to email...maybe someone else can... 916

cool, thanks for the linky Jeff. New assembly line photos. Anyone have any showing the actually body panels going together??

Porsche Factory - Day 1, '72 MY Production

Photographed in August, 1971

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Andy and I were talking this weekend about the underbody "doughnuts" that are commonly thought to be jacking points. Andy's floor was dimpled up which he though was more accident/bent tube damage. I shared my experience that jacking the car by the front points causes this "damage"/issue. The reason is that the front doughnut is absolutely and completely not connected to the long in any fashion. It's actually about 3/4" away from the long, so using that jack point is essentially just jacking the car by the floor pan (bad idea). Andy postulated that the doughnuts were used for maneuvering the chassis during assembly. And the point.... looking at these pictures convinces me even more that those points are not suitable for jacking up the car and were only meant to be a secure way to hold the chassis and maneuver it during assembly. Nice thinking Andy!

El Bumpo

In that big wide angle shot, you can see a guy installing the rust in the longs....

lol, I wonder why they installed more on some cars than others??? maybe that was a secret dealer option...