Tough crowd? Nobody's asked for the date stamps off the wheels yet. :roll eyes:
Looks like a fine car. Drive the wheels off it…and I mean that in the best possible way.
Cheers,
Mark
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Is there a factory reference for the US rubber buffers not beginning until January or February of 1973?
The illustration page of my factory parts catalogue is dated 9/72, and shows the large rubber buffers.
In any case, a delivery to California "in Spring, 1973" would imply a delivery sometime between late March and late June.
Jon B.
Vista, CA
The DOT bumper regulations came into force for January 1973, not 1972. The earlier cars got rubber overriders on steel bumperettes. The big buffers were a temporary measure that Porsche came up with to comply until the 74 models came. Your car has a double bolt fan strap which was changed to single bolt around January. So it is doubtful you had the buffers.
I'm sure there will be other opinions, maybe if one of the magazines might have pictures of an early road test.
David,
The factory workshop manual clearly states that they were installed on US market cars effective September 1, 1972 production.
Even if US regulations did not take effect until January 1973, the cars were built to those regulations beginning in September.
Porsche did not build cars for the US market in September, October etc which could not be sold after December.
Jon B.
Vista, CA
Well I find that my 911S looks very good without these rubber buffers!
I've just searched for these rubber bumperettes on US Spec 911s and have only seen them fixed to Ts and Es. Is it possible that the S did not have them?
Still installed? . . .
. . . then here's another thread . . .
http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...-radio-in-dash
Post some pics, won't you?
Not-at-all a common/OE bit, so . . .