VIN Plate

[911AUS]

HI,

Does anybody happen to know when VIN Plates changed from 3 line to 4 lines?

Thanks!

[davep]

Looks to me like about calendar year 1971.

[911AUS]

I had heard it was sometime in 71, interested to know what month and we’re there any model variations etc.

Thanks

[davep]

After hours of sorting images and finding dates for VIN's about all that I can say is that the change probably occurred for all models in September 1970. There was also a change in the VIN stamp with bracketing stars replaced by asterisks but this appears to be later by a month or two; I am very confident that the plate change was complete before the stamping change came about.

[911AUS]

Excellent stuff!

Thank you very much for your time!

PM sent.

[tomster]

Sorry to hi-jack this thread but why open a new one?

My car is missing the VIN plate on the slam panel ever since I bought it. I didn't care too much about it because the VIN stamped to the chassis is the one to prove the car's identity (at least over here in Germany). I thought that this (along with the one riveted to the A-pillar - mine is an US car) would be sufficient. Well, at least until now.
According to German law every car has to be fitted a tag - a so called Fabrikschild (production plate) - stating VIN, max gross weight, max axle load, etc. And that's exactly what my TÜV inspector wants to see. He didn't care too much about a VIN being on that plate rather than it showing the technical data needed.
As I am in need of a new plate now anyway I thought: why not do it correctly?

I could use some help in terms of the following questions:

My car is a MY '70 "S" so the correct layout should be like this https://www.stoddard.com/00070110113.html, right?
Are the numbers punched each separately or embossed as a sequence?
Is there a special "font style"?
What is the size of the digits? 4mm?
What are the correct rivets?

Thank you in advance!
Greetings,
Tom

[davep]

The Stoddard plate is correct for you. Cannot help with the rest.