Dating of Fuchs that are original to your car

[Gearby]

Hello,
Okay, here's my situation. I have been buying flat sixes now for a year and quite frankly have way too many. What I've been trying to do is acquire a matched set that would have originally gone on my car. The only problem is, I don't truly know what I'm looking for. Who on here knows the month of manufacture of their cars and the dates of their wheels that are original to their car? My car is a build date of Jan. of 1972. How many months before Jan. would my Fuchs have been dated? I want to find my set and sell off my others. I've acquired so many wheels, my wife is getting fed up with me. She says I'll be the only Porsche owner running dually's all the way around on my car. She thought that was really funny, but me, not so much. What an abberation that would be.

[NorthernThrux]

My 2/73 car has four 6/72 wheels on it. Believed original as no one loved this car enough to do anything date matching or costly for repairs in its 40 years. If a shortcut could be taken, it was.

Ravi

[mike curnow]

Your wife sounds like a really, really smart lady, follow her suggestion. No one really knows what dates of anything came on their car, and why should they care? In manufacturing you use what is in the front of the bin you don't look for dates, no one has time for that nonsense. Worry about the hidden rust that is eating at your car, or clogged engine squirters, or bad tires, not dates.

[NorthernThrux]

P.S. Your wife, although very wise, is being silly. Porsche didn't even use duallys on its tractors, so from an authentic standpoint you'd get a points deduction at any concours

[Gearby]

My 2/73 car has four 6/72 wheels on it. Believed original as no one loved this car enough to do anything date matching or costly for repairs in its 40 years. If a shortcut could be taken, it was.

Ravi

wow, 8 months prior to the manufacturing of your car is a long time. I didn't expect it to be that far ahead. Are there any others who still have their original wheels?

[LongRanger]

. . . wow, 8 months prior to the manufacturing of your car is a long time. I didn't expect it to be that far ahead. Are there any others who still have their original wheels? . . .

I have a car that --- as far as I can tell . . . was built ~Mar-Apr 1970 w/ one wheel dated July '68 --- . . . which has to be as old as any deep-six that I've ever heard about


I have no way of knowing if this wheel is original to the car, or not, but . . .


. . . it sure looks 'beat' enough --- and just like all the others

[mitman70]

My 72 t was built in 1/72 and all the wheels including the spare are 11/71

I hope this helps

[Harvey Weidman]

The road wheels are usually 0-3 months before date of completion and sometimes don't match and the spare is frequently earlier because it is put in last from a different pile.
8 months is allot. The only cars that routinely have dates that far apart are the 7s on 73RSs and special order cars that got hung up somewhere in production.
Still, 8 months is more than I've seen on a verified car.
In a warranty situation, (that is what the dates were for!) a 8 month date probably would have been questioned.
H

[moito]

6/68 car 2/68 fuchs

[NorthernThrux]

I should mention that my spare is a 1/73. So who knows ? Maybe it's the original one ? I do know that no owner that I have tracked down since 1988 did anything to the wheels, and given the penny-pinching attempts to hide even earlier accident damage under lots of bondo, it's unlikely anyone would have gone through the expense of maintaining 4 date matched wheels. Just seems odd, though I agree 8 months is a lot. The car was not a special production car...in fact it's likely it was just a basic stripper car meant to sit on a dealer's lot and get sold to a walk-in customer. It had tinted windows, Koni shocks and black vinyl interior. Nothing else.