Had time for a little exploration today... #4 retains its original motor and gearbox, and its original (and unique) rear exhaust, still hanging a bit low just like at the press launch.
It had a trip through Brussels sometime in the 70s as well.

 

Hi, this means the car has been registered in Belgium during its life. All 928 that were imported have this plate. D'Ieteren still is the importer for Porsche in Belgium.

 

Thanks for that! What do those bottom stamps mean?

 

Curious about the E1 and E2 stickers as well that are covered by the Belgium plate.

 

Junk in the trunk part 1:

The rear "tool tray" is typical press car construction: some sort of molded fiberglass-like material without tool provisions. Notice weird plastic/ bakelite style top pieces... symmetrical but full of a bunch of odd features that serve no purpose, also trimmed off on the outside ends. These were some "stock part" from another type of vehicle and were trimmed adapted to "finish" this area for these press cars. I'll be damned If i can figure out what they are from. Also notice odd off the shelf screw head cam locks to anchor this cobbled together piece.

 

Junk in the trunk part 2:
The incredibly heavy and robust fiberglass / resin / type spare cover... these are very tough and would take some real effort to break or damage... eventually to be replaced by particle board in production

...covering the original spare dated 11/76.

 

Junk in the trunk Part 3:

I believe this to be the remnants of the original Press car tool kit:



This is car 11 or 12 at the press launch:

 

Junk in the trunk Part 4:

The original numbered Jack 004... these same lables were found on the jacks of #1 (001) and #2 (002) but this is the first time I've seen a labeled lug wrench:

 

Junk in the trunk part 5:

#4 attended the press launch without a rear wiper, and without holes in the hatch for one:



The factory added a wiper at some point, I can tell because they had to change the interior trim on the hatch and they used a pre-production only material unit (very hard resin potato-chip material) You can see the unique construction of this panel where it is broken near the wiper: (this is not the cardboard/pressboard crap they used in production.. water has no effect on this material)

to accomplish the wiper install, they had to cut the "tool panel" and hack one of the odd plastic/ bakelite top pieces off for clearance.






Jim's car #6 shows the non wiper version pretty well:

 

Thanks for sharing your archaeological dig as found! Love this stuff!

 

re the id plate on post 31

PMA (poids maximal admis)/ HTG (hoogst toegelaten gewicht): the total weight allowed
PMA-TRAIN (poids maximal en trainé)/HTG-SLEEP (hoogst toegelaten gewicht in sleep) which means the total towing weight

-from a thread about a 911 on another website (https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...rogress/page16)

 

Impressive find. I'm really impressed and glad that this car will join #1 and #2 in good hands.
Incredible anyhow.

Congratulations for your work

 

to complete the info on the id plate:
PVA is a number for homologation purposes. Normally it is a PVG number in Belgium, apparently PVA is used for prototypes.

 

these are discussed here:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...pec-car-2.html

 

Found another vintage press launch pic of #4 showing the non-rear wiper arrangement...