68427vette

Just wondering, where is the BODY Chassis (build number) stamped into the body-- in the rear??
and
Is it on all years?

For those that do not know, USA and ROW/ Japan market cars were built on the same line (correct me if I am wrong) so a ROW car could be #100, then 5 USA cars built 101,102,103,104,105, then the next chassis number( NOT VIN) would be 106 for a possible ROW/japan car- then given the next ROW/Japan Vin number. So if you are looking at VIN# and they are a LOW VIN, it may NOT be that LOW. --(someone more knowledgeable please chime in.)

Also, this number is hand written on masking tape, under the glove box.

I think in 1978 (first year) roughly 500 ROW cars were built, before the first USA cars...

1.) Where is this number stamped??, I have two 79's apart, and can not locate the number- see below photo!! -- post larger photos please- with arrows?.
2.) Also do these numbers start over, for 78, 1979 etc? or do they run continuous?


3.) Is there a spread sheet, with the vins and these chassis numbers?
4.) So, basically you could have the the first #1 USA model for 1978- vin #928 8 2 00011 and have chassis 503 +/- stamped in the body, and written on the tape. meaning you have the 493rd, 1978 928 produced globally, as I think the first 10 numbers were not used...
Who has USA #1-1978? what is the chassis/ body build#?
The above numbers are BODY CHASSIS BUILD NUMBER 1739, and is for 1978 USA 928 8 2 00338

Below is an early ROW, 1978 (112 -minus 10= 102built unless a USA/Japan car was ordered) (correct me if I'm wrong)

A lot of moving numbers as these cars( all ROW,USA,JAPAN) were build consecutively down the body build/ chassis line- then stamped a vin??? series with
the numbers starting with: (1978) (the 8 below is for 1978)
#1 ROW: 928 8 1 00011
#2 U.S.: 928 8 2 00011
#3 Japan:928 8 3 00011

68427vette

from ROB Edwards post a few months back

First we have to figure out what "Production Number" actually means, and when a car was assigned its production number and subsequently (I assume) its VIN. I'm pasting here from a recent post of mine:

There isn't a lot of clarity on the workflow of how cars were built and accounted for during the process. At some point early in the process cars were assigned a productionnumber, which (I'm assuming) were where either a customer/dealer/distributor order with a particular set of options hit the factory, or some internal planning group at the factory said, ok, the next 50 or 100 cars will have these colors, these options, and will be shipped to these countries. At some point in the production, bare body shells got stamped with the productionnumber before they got painted, and then the VIN tags got added after paint (again, this is an assumption). So what's the correlation between productionnumber and VIN? Turns out it can vary a lot. If you just go by order of productionnumber, Porsche was switching between ROW production and US production for the first 100 cars, building 93 ROW cars and 7 US cars. Then there was a run of nearly 900 ROW cars with only roughly 50 US cars sprinkled in. So US car 9288200056 has a productionnumber of 987. After the first 1400 cars they seem to have settled down into blocks of 30 to 70 ROW cars and then 30 to 70 US cars, back and forth, always in contiguous blocks. Maybe suppliers were sending US vs. ROW bumper covers, or gauge clusters, or the engine plant was doing runs of US vs. Euro-spec motors in groups of 30-70? Or they finally had enough confirmed dealer orders by region to know how many cars could be grouped into a particular sized run of productionnumber? No idea.

So while the very early Euro cars mostly track their production # and VINs within a couple of dozen, the US market cars not so much.

Crumpler

I found this while stripping the sound proofing.

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...loorboard.html

68427vette

Does this tag# match the rear BODY Stamp number-- on the rear hatch/deck lid?

JC

Crumpler

Yes.
I never knew there was a number on the hatch, but sure enough.