Happy Birthday

[gled49]

Our 73S turns 50 this month, 12/72. #538

[stout]

Congrats, Gordon—car looks great!

Your post reminds me I was distracted from our 1973 914's 50th. It's been in our family for 37~ of the years since 9/72 and most of its 260,000~ miles. How many miles are on your 911S?

[72targa]

Beautiful car, G!

[steve shea]

Yup mine too. 9113300310. 10/72 through Delcar SaS in Varese, Italy. Still in business. I've had it since '88, aubergine/cinnamon.

[911MRP]

Great stuff gentlemen!

Regarding 50 year old cars dob this month … The factory tech specs document gives us this information to conjure with regarding the last vin for model year 73 made by end December calendar 1972. Vehicles were not built strictly in vin sequence and the first 10 SC-F , aka RS ( the other series models too?) were not part of the actual run so the tally starts from 0011, rather than 0001 as this table on booklet suggests.


I have somewhere (but not to hand) the numbers of 911 built per day or maybe per week around that time.

I know my car will turn 50 too specifically a few days before Christmas according to an exact completion date stamp at top right of its fahzeug-auftrag which makes it among the last few of its particular model to be built at the end of Calendar 1972. A British market car the dealer was later absorbed by the official network (although the original premises are still a car dealer and other than branding the building looks similar today to photo I have if it in 1972). I’m in touch with the salesman (later wen on to be overall manager of dealership) who sold the car new new on early part of October 72 when model was launched and who collected it from the sole importer along with the first customer on trade plates. This was in January 73 - just as Great Britain entered what was then called the “common market”. The car’s first owner still lives at the address written in the cars documents including its first British registration document (colloquially called the “green logbook” because they were a folded green card with various official stamps and handwriting writing recording the taxation amount, status etc as used by the county council vehicle licensing departments before vehicle licensing was progressively centralised and computerised across U.K. from around mid 70s ). Most green logbooks were cancelled with a big stamp mark and many surrendered once records got adopted by the DVLA big computers in Swansea wales so it’s quite unusual but neat to have the information. Complete continuous owner records to me allowed me to be in touch with the four previous owners — nice to ba able to go back no gaps ans even back to build sheet exactly fifty years ago this month. Sadly with GDPR legislation that content would never be given out legally these days as it shows personal private details!

Coincidentally I had leisurely lunch with Porsche racer Nick Faure last week, he sold the car to me around three decades ago (not as long as some here have had theirs!). Nick has told me how he’d had regular use of the car back when it belonged to his friend — a well known motor racing engineer and former F1 / Le Mans team manager— quaintly Nick still refers to car by the personalised cherished numberplate it wore when he used to borrow it. At our next lunch, planned for the new year, Nick said he will invite that PO.



Steve

[Chuck Miller]

Look'n GREAT Gordon !!! ...

Have to wait a few months for mine...

[RSTarga]

Mine was "born" in May 73 although I picked it up from the dealer in August 73

[Biancaneve]

Our 73S turns 50 this month, 12/72. #538

Happy b-day from Biancaneve! Still some months to go for her ...

[Rick Cabell]

White is such a great color for these cars. Now put some miles on it!

[NorthernThrux]

My identical looking ivory white '73S (0854) turns 50 in February of 2023. Your car looks great Gordon.

Ravi