Regarding North American delivered 2004-05 GT3. First VIN believed to be ending in the 206X range. If you have a Made in Germany 964 case please share your VIN. Would be interesting to get an idea of the earliest and latest. Sounds like these could be the modern equivalent of a first series 73 Carrera RS, though surely rarer.

I have one ending in 2120 Made in Germany

 

Mine is 2088 and has a 964 case. 5/03 manufacture.

 

Do you mean vehicle VIN?

Mine is 2686 and an April 2004 build.

I thought they were all made in Germany. Where else was the engine built?

 

Majority were made in Spain except for a handful of early cars. Take a look underneath at your engine case passenger side

 

Got it. Last four digits are 5695. The full engine # is M96/7963425695

If those numbers are sequential, that's a lot of 996 Mezger engines built by April of 2004.

 

Some engine casings were built in Spain. Engine assembly has always been carried out in Germany.

 

I think the "Made in Spain" ones are the ones from the end of 2004 and all the ones from 2005.


It may be so.
GT3.1
2000: 1360 cars *GERMANY*
2001: 508 cars *GERMANY*
Total: 1868 cars


GT3.2
2003: 781 cars *GERMANY and some from Spain*
2004: 1532 cars *Germany and Spain.
2005: 276 cars *SPAIN*

 

Yup. Now that I know where to look, mine is "Spain".

I just need to buy a Spanish Ruff for my helmet.

 

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The Spanish cases are the "newer" 996 case design. The ones that went into the 997GT3 cars were all made in Austria. The Spanish and Austrian cases were used on the street cars. The newer 996 case design ones that were used in all the Motorsport Cup/R/RSR applications were made in Germany.

 

Mine made in Spain .. faultless 😬. Great times on the track never let me down only just me in the beginning 😬.

 

I believe the 964 engine cases were used until 2003 or so.

 

Mine was made in Spain in the rain by a girl named Jane.