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Suncoast was the vendor for another source. PM me and I'll send you what I got from them and you can go direct to the company that provided the report.l
Suncoast was the vendor for another source. PM me and I'll send you what I got from them and you can go direct to the company that provided the report.l
According to Derek Tam-Scott on a Carmudgeon show (possibly Hagerty, I'll find it) Porsche stopped providing engine and trans numbers because people were sending in VINs, and then remarking their hardware. Replacement engines and transmissions could then appear to be numbers matching, turning cheaper cars into very expensive cars overnight.
This is an interesting suggestion, one that I'd not heard before. I posed this suggestion today to two folks who have been deep in the early 911 biz for 40 years in one case and 50 years in the other. Nobody could really see this as being likely. The equipment, tooling, and expertise needed to convincingly alter engine case and tranny case numbers are expensive, such that only very large shops could realistically afford it. Given that, there is really only a percentage in altering VINS and other numbers on potentially valuable cars, not run-of-the-mill 911 Tees, Esses, etc. Accordingly, none of us could imagine that would be a frequent enough problem to be the reason that PCNA changed its policies regarding COAs. Far more likely, PCNA decided the current arrangement would provide a more lucrative revenue stream.
This is an interesting suggestion, one that I'd not heard before. I posed this suggestion today to two folks who have been deep in the early 911 biz for 40 years in one case and 50 years in the other. Nobody could really see this as being likely. The equipment, tooling, and expertise needed to convincingly alter engine case and tranny case numbers are expensive, such that only very large shops could realistically afford it. Given that, there is really only a percentage in altering VINS and other numbers on potentially valuable cars, not run-of-the-mill 911 Tees, Esses, etc. Accordingly, none of us could imagine that would be a frequent enough problem to be the reason that PCNA changed its policies regarding COAs. Far more likely, PCNA decided the current arrangement would provide a more lucrative revenue stream.
