Jadz928

Data not complete. Could've been early Oct. The more datapoints I have, the more accurate the info will be.

How long? Not sure from start to finish (of one car), but by the end of '78 they were sending 15 out the door every day. As production moved ahead into '79 and beyond, they had capacity for more.

Jadz928

78 RoW owner's, please look for a sticker under your glove box.
I've found it on two RoW's now, and it appears to be record of a production number.

If you find this, could you let me know what number it reads and your 928's VIN?

Thanks!

Igordiver

Here's mine

Harvey Yancey

According to the Porsche Cars Great Britain COA #579 was October 1977.

Jadz928

Thank you very much, Igor.
This certainly changed my data, which is great! The more of these we have, the more accurate the info will be.

Thanks Harvey. The Prod# 644 sticker above is from your #579.

VanD

Jim - a guy in Long Island sent me this one....

Jadz928

Thanks Alex! Another good datapoint that moved the numbers slightly toward more accurate.

Still have a ways to go.
With enough info, I may be able to tell on what day your '78 was built. That may be a bit lofty, but certainly within a few days (with margin of error).

Igordiver

I'll post it on the Belgian Porscheforum and maybe the Dutch forum. Not a lot of them here but each one is a step closer I guess

Vilhuer

I quess you have much larger collection of build dates, engine and gearbox numbers etc than what has been discussed in here over the years? Can you make some kind of list what you have so far? I can try to get more info from local '78's, both ROW and US models.

What data to collect. I think at least these.

VIN, engine number, gearbox number, engine block pairing number, glove box sticker, seat timestamp, feature info (tacho, door inside button shape, door lock style, fuel filler style, hatch lock cylinder shape, no rear hatch guide rubber etc)

Jadz928

Erkka,
My collection is not that elaborate. For this exercise, I'm using VIN and production# to plot and triangulate production rates per month.



This info will never be 100% accurate because I don't know when the factory took Holiday or worked overtime, and getting info on when Japan cars were produced would be next to impossible.
Also, unless I find 'bookend' VINs for every month (lowest and highest VIN per build-month), we can only get so close.

But the data is still interesting to me and I've learned alot from it already.

FWIW, the best triangulation data so far has be the production# glove box sticker. And so far, those numbers are working out.

Ad0911

My '78 has a sticker with "1942". The VIN number ends woth "1100"

Jadz928

^^^^
Thank you, Ad. My '78 #2384 has a sticker with red marker just like that.

That's a tough one to fit into the spreadsheet. Would mean that approx 842 US were produced before approx 1100 RoW.

TonySpektr

Hi Jim

VIN end 573

Sticker... Well it just has a number on it

08951

Or

15680

(depending on which way up you look )


Edit: looking at above the 1 is not a European written 1 (that looks like a droopy 7) so I suspect its 0895

Tony
(Rhd manual, minerva blue, pascha)

LT Texan

Here's mine.....

Build date 04/78
#0774

tailpipe

Weather is still to yucky here, had snow again today. Remind me in a few weeks, I have 4 78s here.