It would be foolish to say I knew but tend to think peg more 74 on. For example I looked at 20k unmolested car that lived life in a place where few other 911 so circumstances that maybe minimise brownian motion of unattached accessories like Jack and toolkits — April 73 it had folded peg ( not cast) with teardrop. I took note as it was relevant to something I was helping friends with for their April 911.
I was not surprised what was there — rather confirmed my general impression of what I expected to see when opening its bonnet - from looking at vague patterns of what accessories used roughly when.
My theory that follows is about as useful as the famous theory of A. Elk (Miss) …like Anne impressions based on what I think I’ve observed with a bit more weight where cars seemed less messed with: lollipop pressed peg more prevalent earlier 73, then tend to see more teardrop pressed peg later 73 springtime — the cast seem to appear regularly even later so suspect more so 74 MY item.
Who knows I certainly wouldn’t be dogmatic just an impression as there are too many real world factors on once fairly inconsequential loose accessory supplied.
Vw marking or not the one with up/ down letters it is undoubtably the version illustrated in the 73 911 owners manuals. I do know pictures in those drivers / owners books not always representative of final production and images sometimes got reused etc. However the screw jacks were quite new so unlikely to be carryover old pictures of prior years. Who knows if some ( Bilstein?) yellow up/down got used on 73 911 among commonly seen green dot — very hard to say definitively. After all as context back in 1973 Porsche 911 were sold thorough the 50: 50 sales and marketing JV with VW across many parts of world; they were looking for operational synergies etc. Can anyone say the yellow up/down ones that are evidently shown on the books found in glovebox of the car didn’t ever get that type in some 73 911 new. Not common granted.
Not sure how much to read into a VW stamp on some accessory things— did any of the prior style of jacks used have VW marks from time to time ? More generally VW and Porsche were quite intertwined at the time. Some paperwork for my 911 and much literature of day outside NA markets is often VW-Porsche branded due to the VG arrangement. For example the Carrera RS brochure of late calendar 1972 was VW-Porsche branded. Also the dealer who sold my RS new were officially VW-Porsche with the branding prominently displayed in personal photos of the showroom in 73 that the salesman who sold it sent to me kindly sent. Plus sold Ferrari-Fiat, RR Aston Martin as official agents. Important to realise VW-Porsche wasn’t just a 914 product for many markets around that time it was operationally the scale marketing & sales plus after sales/ service network for large parts of the world. That was case in Europe (for the most part) including the U.K. which interestingly given Brexit was just in process of first joining the “Common Market” from 1 jan 73
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