Aluminum Deck Lid Trivia?

[Cornpanzer]

Jeff,
I will scan my pages so that you can compare with yours.
It appears to be a 71 book though..
Dave

[schmidt]

Dave look at the date on the bottom of the page.

[schmidt]

Dave look at the date on the bottom of the page. TKO.....your car is insane cool, the flat 15 really spin the folks up. Imagine if you sold them for deep ones only to find out you were wrong.........that would suck. May I ask what # is your machine, my quess is around 1200-1300. I began seeing the square mirror for sure in the 1350 range and I thought in the May build range.

[schmidt]

Dah.....TKO I just saw the number on your signature tag. Ok that makes sense, so about the last 125 for sure and up to 200 S cars got the square mirror. The same case applies with the May and June E and T cars. Mine is the early 71 version car so mine is really a 70 model without the updates of a real 71 car from January of 1971, those cars are a little improved over the early version 1971 cars for the first half year.

[fryardds]

Read it again Dave. The book specifies the T and E as steel, the book shows a 1 for both. The S shows a 1 in the column for the alloy. Look at the center panel, the book is again consistent with what I have always said, the 71 E has the alloy center panel like the S, with no alloy lid for 1971. I will have to look at my notes on the 69-70 E.

Jeff and Dave,

My '71 parts book confirms this. Alloy license panel for E and S and rear lid only for S. The date at the bottom of the page is 4/72.

[37yrold911]

Aluminum deck lid equipped 911s even had a different part numbered rear lid shock that was less "strong" in it's resistance!

- you don't happen to know what the p/n is, do you?

[andyjboy]

Part number for the strut for aluminium engine lids was:

911.512.331.00

- the version for steel lids ended in .20

[a911s]

Thanks, Andy - saved me looking it up!

[schmidt]

The alloy strut was identified by the Yellow painted dot on it. Just for trivia.

[37yrold911]

Thx - looks like DC auto has them -- for $40 instead of $15 for the regular ones...

might try one on my FG engine lid.