911661

Did the us spec 1974-1977 911's come with a factory wide body as an option or were they all narrow body as they left the factory?

nathan1

There was never a factory wide body option for mid-year 911's either ROW or US spec. The same holds true for the 911SC. The first factory wide body was the M491 option package first made available in 1984 on the 3.2 Carrera which was available until 1989. There was also the slight variation (rare) M470 which is wide body, spoiler delete.

Of course so nobody thinks I forgot, every Turbo from 1975-1989 was a "factory" wide body, but that of course wasn't your question.

If you see a wide body NA mid-year, its a conversion 100% of the time.

GTgears

Closest thing to a wide body on an NA middie would be a Carrera model.

911661

Great stuff thanks, so there wasn't even a wider rear flare option like the sc's had?

Steve Weiner-Rennsport Systems

Nossir, just the '76-'77 Turbo Carrera.

911661

okay, that confirms to me that the car I was looking at was definitely altered.

nathan1

The 1974-1975 US Carrera had rear flares just like an SC, not wide body but certainly wider the a regular mid-year.

race911

Let's not forget the "SC" flared ROW Carrera 3.0 of '76-7. But anyone who has one of those knows what he's got.

And while I can't say 100% sure that nothing in the 2.7L era got send over to Werks 1 for a flare job, I know of one SC in Phoenix (wasn't a customer car) that did get a factory turbo body during the no-US sale 930 years.

rusnak

Yes that is correct.

GTgears

There's been a few documented instances, like Penske's '74 Targa with RS flares. But those are the oddball exceptions.