Richard K.

I'm 17 units behind you at 0102. Mine was built in 07/87.

SeanR

It looks like there were 3663 total 928's produced for the MY 1988, this is total world wide, not just the USA. US totals were 1520.

If my math is correct, that is about 306 per month, which gives us about 77 per week. That's pretty damn cool, until you figure that Ford puts out 100,000 plus trucks a year.

Some of ours were on the line at the same time.

djurek

He was thinking "I can't believe I have been doing this for 10 years now! how the time flies"

michaelathome

Based on that I was beginning of month and you and Panzer were 2 weeks later. You two were on the line at the same time being w/in 77 cars of one another. Also it looks like I was about the 15th week of production for the 88my. That means some of the first 88my's were in production late july/early august.

Here is what I put together just from the thread, the registry and ebay. Was just playing around trying to see if I couldn't narrow it down just a bit more.

An 1987 wp0jb0926hs862072 was 04/87 ebay Red/Black/Auto
An 1987 WP0JB0926HS862223 was 05/87 ebay Black/Black/Auto so we know that the 88's started sometime after this.


Jul-87
0061 start
0081 UNK 928registry.com - earliest in registry
0085 UNK Moon928
0102 07/87 Richard Kohler
0112 07/87 intrepidjohnson

Aug-87

0253 08/87 Ebay Black/Grey/Auto
0275 UNK

Sep-87

0532 09/87 Ebay

Oct-87
0680 10/87 Bay Area Black/Tan Auto
0776 10/87 IcemanG17
0819 10/87 Ebay Red/Black/Auto
0828 10/87 Ebay Grey/Tan/Auto
0850 10/87 Ebay Grey/Grey/5spd
0858 10/87 Ebay
0928 Ebay White/Black Auto
0970 10/87
1045 UNK Sendarious
1091 UNK Ebay

Nov-87

1026 11/87 Whitesands
1121 11/87 Michaelathome GR/Black auto
UNK 11/87 Sharkbody
1209 11/87 Panzer Black/Black
1236 11/87 Red S4 auto
1270 11/87 Ebay Black/Tan/Auto (Paula Abduls)
1319 11/87 Sean
1370 UNK Ebay Red/Linen/Auto

Dec-87
1427 UNK Paul Champagne (I wanna know his build date cause it would be close to the 11/12 cut off)

1450 12/87 Flyin Scotsman

Jan-88

Feb-88


Mar-88

1599 03/88 MrMerlin
1669 03/88 Ebay Grey/GreyGreen Auto

Apr-88

1693 04/88 Ebay Rock Green/grey-green AT

May-88

Jun-88

Very cool.

Michael

Panzer9

"Panzer" was also born in Nov 1987. VIN 1209

the flyin' scotsman

Just to be sure:

is the date on the VIN the date of completion of assembly or the start?

ie............1287

SeanR

I noticed that on the later VIN cars, that the stamp in the door sill has the month, day, year on them. I was wondering also if that was the "out the door" date or what it actually stood for.

On ours, hell, it could mean anything. I'd like to know how many 11/87's there are out there, and then we could narrow it down to where they went.......... Like, if ROW and US cars were built at the same time, or if they were seperate.

Nice work there michaelathome

We all know that the "new" model years are sent to the dealer lots in July-Aug for the next years runs. So, yes, production dates would be June/July or so. Our '90 has a May date, damn, it's almost a '91 S4.

This stuff is so neat to think about.

Joe '87 S4

I've always considered my car, an '87, 20 years old this year and it was kind of a milestone. Yet it's stamped 9/86. I feel like I missed the big 2-0 now. Damn! Now I have to wait until at least September, 2011...

SeanR

Ahh Joe, don't sweat it, at least it wasn't your anniversery or the wifes birthday.

JP Rodkey

Hey, Sean.....today would be a great day to go back and oogle those 928 factory pics posted on a thread in here some months ago. Some pure Porsche **** right there..........

michaelathome

A little bump for those of you who are having a birthday this month. Happy B-DAY to your baby Flyin Scotsman!! I have updated my list with a few more cars.

Michael

SeanR

Screw the thread, I got my 928 **** in Hardback now. Project 928.

Mrmerlin

my car has a build date of 3/88 vin 1599

intrepidjohnson

Bought my 88 new in October 1977, vin 112, so it must have been built in September.

Charley B

#1236. Red S4 auto. Lots of 11/87's