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Its hard to believe that the earliest impact bumper cars are now 50 years old. My US Spec Porsche 911 Carrera was manufactured in Novemeber 1973. Lets hope its still around in another 50....

IMG_4438 Large by robin titterington, on Flickr

IMG_3172 2 Large by robin titterington, on Flickr

A really early one and looks superb

88k miles from new.... it's lovely. Will post some more pics up if we ever get a day that it stops raining.....

Congratulations on your new tax avoidance benefits.

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Road tax exemption applies to cars when they reach 40 yrs old ...

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Oh yeah. Happy 10th anniversary of your tax avoidance status.

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redrobin911 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:09 pm
88k miles from new.... it's lovely. Will post some more pics up if we ever get a day that it stops raining.....

Month younger than mine same colour!

Mine was then registered in May 74, 6 days before I was born so we are having a joint 50th party.

redrobin911 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:35 pm Its hard to believe that the earliest impact bumper cars are now 50 years old. My US Spec Porsche 911 Carrera was manufactured in Novemeber 1973. Lets hope its still around in another 50....

+1
I was just about to post about my own ...now 50 year old 911, also built in November 1973 and imported from the US


this photo was taken before the lockplate was replaced during the restoration


it's still a very happy car in one of the kids birthday party colors

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the build number on my base model car is 1042594. "@redrobin911 - whats the build number on your Carrera?

Great to see you back here Robin - I'm up in Belfast next Wednesday through Friday!!

gtBen wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:19 pm

redrobin911 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:35 pm Its hard to believe that the earliest impact bumper cars are now 50 years old. My US Spec Porsche 911 Carrera was manufactured in Novemeber 1973. Lets hope its still around in another 50....

+1
I was just about to post about my own ...now 50 year old 911, also built in November 1973 and imported from the US


the build number on my base model car is 1042594. "@redrobin911 - whats the build number on your Carrera?

My build number is 1043417 so 800 or so later. Mine is a Belgian MFI invoiced in Dec 74.

Anta wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:42 pmMy build number is 1043417 so 800 or so later. Mine is a Belgian MFI invoiced in Dec 74.

Thanks Anta
The vin- and build- numbers interests me

I couldn't resist some googling, so I can understand the pace of building the cars a bit better


For model year 1974 my unscientific compilation based on vin numbers above from Stuttcars.com shows there were built:

11.745 cars in total, roughly 1150 cars/months during the 10-11 build months
build or body number 104xxxx 7058 coupe's, roughly 700 coupe/month during the 10-11 build months
build or body number 114xxxx 4687 targa's, roughly 450 targa/month during the 10-11 build months

or roughly/ vin number serie
911410xxxx 400 base coupe/month
911411xxxx 300 base targa/month
911430xxxx 135 S-coupe/month
911431xxxx 90 S-targa/month
911440xxxx 50 us-carrera coupe/month
911441xxxx...25 us-carrera targa/month
911460xxxx 100 carrera coupe/month
9114609xxx...12 carrera 3.0RS and RSR/month
911461xxxx 40 carrera targa/month