My Own Personal Barn Find: My 1968 911L

[Xavier PJB]

Thank you, my L is an US version. And tanks to the pictures you posted as example, as I believed the US emission plaque would be fired with rivets, it looks like to be glued.
Having an emission plaque for the US version makes sense of course.

I am waiting a bit for some expert to shime in, but I guess I will shortly add one plaque more to my car :-)

Xavier

Hey Xavier - Great question. I know that my uncle never resprayed that part of the car so those plaques have been there since at least 1972, so I am almost certain that these 2 plaques are correct for a US-delivered 911 in 1968.

In looking into this more, I think this is a difference between US-delivered 1968’s and ROW cars. Remember that the 911S was not allowed into the US in 1968 due to emissions rules, so there was no ‘68 S in the US. Instead, Porsche took the the 911S and dropped a standard engine into it to make the 1-year only 911L in the US with the full S-spec minus the engine, complete with a smog pump (which I and pretty much everyone else have removed). I have a suspicion that the emissions compliance plaque was required for US 911’s in 1968 but not likely for ROW cars. In doing a quick online search on a bunch of different 1968’s, I see that the US cars have the 2 plaques while the European cars have just the paint code and chassis number plaque.

Here are a few of the pics I found to support my theory, but I’d love to have the experts here weight in to clarify
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[911L Guy]

Thank you, my L is an US version. And tanks to the pictures you posted as example, as I believed the US emission plaque would be fired with rivets, it looks like to be glued.
Having an emission plaque for the US version makes sense of course.

I am waiting a bit for some expert to shime in, but I guess I will shortly add one plaque more for my car :-)

Xavier

Yeah, we both need an expert to weigh in on this one to confirm my Google-sourced theory!

In the meantime, since you’ve got a US L as well, can you help me with my other question below from post #49 on the location of your coil? Is yours mounted on the relay panel as Richy has suggested? In looking into this, I am seeing photos that seem to confirm his suggestion that the correct location of the coil should on the relay panel, but as the ‘68 had so many one-year-only attributes I am wondering if the coil may have been mounted differently for that year (possibly due to the installation of the smog pump in 1968?). I really need to get this right, so if you could you shoot me a pic of your engine bay showing the location of the coil that would be awesome.

[Xavier PJB]

Cannot help with mine, as I have replaced the original by a MSD set.
However I can confirm that originally, my L had the ignition coil mounted on the relay panel.
Here are pics I collected for 1968 and Ls
Attachment 557682Attachment 557683

Yeah, we both need an expert to weigh in on this one to confirm my Google-sourced theory!

In the meantime, since you’ve got a US L as well, can you help me with my other question below from post #49 on the location of your coil? Is yours mounted on the relay panel as Richy has suggested? In looking into this, I am seeing photos that seem to confirm his suggestion that the correct location of the coil should on the relay panel, but as the ‘68 had so many one-year-only attributes I am wondering if the coil may have been mounted differently for that year (possibly due to the installation of the smog pump in 1968?). I really need to get this right, so if you could you shoot me a pic of your engine bay showing the location of the coil that would be awesome.

[911L Guy]

Cannot help with mine, as I have replaced the original by a MSD set.
However I can confirm that originally, my L had the ignition coil mou ted on the relay panel.
Here are pics I collected for 1968 and Ls
Attachment 557682Attachment 557683

Super, thanks, I just shot you a PM

[Xavier PJB]

Trying again

[Xavier PJB]

second one

[JimmyT]

WET '65-'68 911 Fig. 9/1: