1972 Paint Code Plate - Help Please

[fryardds]

Stu, the coachbuilder is Reutter.

Yes, 9 is Reutter, and 8 is the Porsche Factory. All the '73 Carreras I have looked at have 8 in the middle of their paint code sequence.

[davep]

So mine would be 131-9-2 Right?!

Most likely.

[Jens]

Brian, I wonder who made the bodies for the factory designation #8 or did Porsche build the RS bodyshell in-house? Brian Long's Definitive History 1971 to 1977 lists Reutter as the coachbuilder, but that's as far as I've looked right now.

[Porsche-RSR]

Yes, 9 is Reutter, and 8 is the Porsche Factory. All the '73 Carreras I have looked at have 8 in the middle of their paint code sequence.

Does anyone know if this is correct for all '73 carrera's ?

[Jens]

Konradsheim p.123-
"Each 911 received a "paint tag" on which a code number contained information about the paint's color, source and manufacturer."

Does he mean the paint's source? Hmmm.

Of course, the coachbuilder would paint the bodyshell and as such be the source for the paint, whatever the make of paint. ???

[davep]

Personally, I thought that Porsche & Reutter were one and the same at the time. I've never heard of Reutter used as a coachbuilder except during the days of 356 manufacture. Porsche bought the coachbuilding assets of Reutter, and the remainder of Reutter became Recaro AFAIK. In any event, this is what the factory literature says:

[Jens]

Thanks dave.

[davep]

I have not found factory documentation for other 'places of application' or for other 'paint manufacturer'.

[fryardds]

Konradsheim p.123-
"Each 911 received a "paint tag" on which a code number contained information about the paint's color, source and manufacturer."

Does he mean the paint's source? Hmmm.

Of course, the coachbuilder would paint the bodyshell and as such be the source for the paint, whatever the make of paint. ???

Jens,

I have wondered about this too. Looks like based on Dave's document the middle # is not the coachbuilder. So if 9 is Porsche I wonder what 8 signifies for the Carreras?

[davep]

Looks like based on Dave's document the middle # is not the coachbuilder. So if 9 is Porsche I wonder what 8 signifies for the Carreras?

I believe the 'place of application' is the 'coachbuilder'. The bodies are welded up, and painted shortly thereafter. The only coachbuilders I know are Porsche and Karmann.

The body # / production # / AKA hidden # are all 103xxxx for the RS/RSR; the 0 should designate a Porsche built coupe. So the second digit should correlate with the middle code of the full paint code. I need more data with VIN & body # & full paint code combinations to work this out. This SHOULD be well known information, but as far as I can determine no one has actually documented it. I hope to be able to do just that.