Can anyone help with a timeline when snails swapped to banjos in the 1970 model please
Can anyone help with a timeline when snails swapped to banjos in the 1970 model please
Clyde Boyer
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed my first ever 911 (1995)
1997 993 Twin Turbo
Early S Registry Member #294
First Aussie R Gruppe Member #366
TYP 901 Register Inc #6
My 12/69 S has snails
My 4/70 T has snails
(a) 1970 911T Sportomatic coupe
(b) 2016 E350 4MATIC wagon; parts hauler for (a)
ESR #1474
Thanks folks it seems for sure an early 70 car had snails and that was what I was trying to establish.
Looks like I was a year out too and snails may have changed early in the 1971 year model
Clyde Boyer
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed my first ever 911 (1995)
1997 993 Twin Turbo
Early S Registry Member #294
First Aussie R Gruppe Member #366
TYP 901 Register Inc #6
My '70S is 5 numbers from the last S produced , it has the snail horns and no bracket on the battery box for the banjo's .
Clyde, Not as conclusive as linking Bosch sport fanfaren to a vin of unmolested 911 but as a more general datapoint this advert in christaphorus magazine of August 1969 seems to suggest it was new product to market around then. “The new bright red sports fanfare” Advert is generic the publication is Porsche however. Not sure is it is the first time the Bosch fanfare advert appeared in the Porsche in-house magazine.
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The snail horn type was officially used until end of model year 1970, but Swiss car used the snail typ until end of MY 1973.
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...54#post1165454
BR
Claudius
Do snail horns carry a production date like Banjos do?
Clyde Boyer
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed
1973 2.4E Coupe RHD Aussie 5 speed my first ever 911 (1995)
1997 993 Twin Turbo
Early S Registry Member #294
First Aussie R Gruppe Member #366
TYP 901 Register Inc #6
Jim
Too many Porsches and one VW are starting to fill up my desert landscape.
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