Production numbers for 1998 993 c2 cab ?
05-01-2012, 11:31 AM
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^^^ and a caveat to all of it is .. if there were ANY special 'long lead' items or exclusive options that required hand work to be done to any of these cars .. or any reason at all that they could not be completed in the normal 'flow' .. chances are they would not be sequentially numbered vin's because the "Production Date" on the stickers are generated when the car is finished and rolled out to the delivery pens.
05-02-2012, 07:58 AM
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Well ... I've heard various scenarios but the most likely is that they were built on an isolated assembly line somewhere away from 996 production .. and your car's vin is only 49 numbers from the end so ... it was definitely one of the very last days that Porsche built 993's :-) might have been built right along with Jerry Sienfeld's Turquoise Blue 'S' .. the car purportedly to be the last 993 built.
05-02-2012, 08:47 AM
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05-02-2012, 11:58 AM
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Yeah .. you should feel that anywayz in your 993 Cab. A quick scan around you at any given time will completely reinforce ANY illusions of grandeur you care to entertain
So .. you are right at the break between model year 1997 and 1998 being a July baby .. which model year is on your title?
So .. you are right at the break between model year 1997 and 1998 being a July baby .. which model year is on your title?
05-02-2012, 07:19 PM
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Yeah .. you should feel that anywayz in your 993 Cab. A quick scan around you at any given time will completely reinforce ANY illusions of grandeur you care to entertain
So .. you are right at the break between model year 1997 and 1998 being a July baby .. which model year is on your title?
So .. you are right at the break between model year 1997 and 1998 being a July baby .. which model year is on your title?
You are right about that my friend-something mystical about these cars I do believe
05-03-2012, 10:59 PM
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My chassis number is 1348 not 348. It is the highest chassis number I have seen here on the post your vin list. When I ordered it 1997 I specifically told my salesman at Champion Motors in FL I wanted the last 993. I think it is the last or one very close to the last 993 produced.
05-03-2012, 11:06 PM
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You're confusing Cabriolet vin numbers with Coupes. Each model, Cab, Coupe, Targa and Turbo for North America, Mexico and Brazil had their own unique set of vins. All of the last coupes were Turbo body cars (widebody's) and of course, Cabriolets and Targa's were not. Normally Aspirated Coupes total model year 1998 production for North America as I have it was 1292 cars .. vin number's allocated were WP0AA299'X' (where X is variable) WS320001 through 1353 and again, they didn't use them all ....
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05-04-2012, 12:46 AM
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05-04-2012, 01:12 AM
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Well, I wouldn't quote me here .. it's speculation given that the redbook gives 1292 as the last used number but they are certainly not the last word for authority. According to the Porsche factory press release, the last 993 produced was for Jerry Seinfeld and rolled out March 31, 1998 .. don't know the chassis number .. but here's the archive photo:
05-04-2012, 11:20 AM
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Yes, thats jerry's WP0AA2998WS321327 but his vin is lower?? Search his vin in rennlist for more information and a picture of Jerry driving this car
But this type of out of sequence stuff happens on production lines when any anomaly causes a previously numbered and stamped product to be sidelined for repairs from damage incurred during assembly, special options, vendor installed items, delayed vendor parts ... you name it. The products are just pulled off to the side until what they need gets done and then put back into the continuously moving production in a later slot ...
Also ... as a sidenote, that production date for 993's was input at rollout and their inventory computer generated the door jam sticker we all have on our North American import vehicles but that sticker wasn't applied until the cars reached the dealerships from what I understand .. and that might account for all of the crooked stickers I've seen in every position and angle that sticker could be applied .. doh!
05-04-2012, 01:15 PM
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Ok .. then your car was finished after the mid July cutoff for model year .. usually coincided with the factory taking their summer vacation for a month and returning to the next model year's production .. I've been told in that 4 week break, the engineers and management in charge of the production lines would make all the switchovers and changes to inventories, computer programs, machinery .. etc., that the new model year demanded and be ready to roll when the lines resumed in August. I am such a geek ... no?
07-24-2012, 12:46 PM
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07-24-2012, 01:41 PM
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Confusing,
Mine is a Widebody C2S, Chassis no 0827 & Mf date 10/97
title says '98 car, sold in dec '97,
First owner created spec sheet in 7th July '97, wrote check one week later.
Delivery before Christmas '97.
Mine is a Widebody C2S, Chassis no 0827 & Mf date 10/97
title says '98 car, sold in dec '97,
First owner created spec sheet in 7th July '97, wrote check one week later.
Delivery before Christmas '97.
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