Early engine lid question

[StephenAcworth]

I have a 1966 deck lid (not original to my car) that is in Irish green and does not have any black on it at all... I removed some paint to see the number stamping and believe the paint to be factory original...

[nickb4]

i guess it was me

Hah, yes it was you. Well, now you know at least one person is listening to you (and even writing down what you say)

[LongRanger]

. . . have written down in my '67 notes that before 307950 you will see black under engine lid grill and after 307950 you will see body color. Source: Info was posted somewhere here a while back and I jotted it down for my own information . . .

VIN = 307950S
Eng# = ?
Trans# = ?


Another thread . . .

'. . . Les Klimt and his wife, Pat, aren’t sure if it was spring or fall when they journeyed to Stuttgart, Germany, with another couple in 1967, but this they do know: The red 1967 Porsche 911S that they bought from a German dealer has been with them until last week . . .

. . . Klimt, of Independence, was a TWA pilot at the time. He tried to buy a 911S from Art Bunker’s Kansas City dealership but he was told they were in short supply and he couldn’t get one. Not to be deterred, Klimt visited the Hahn dealership when he was in Stuttgart and got one immediately. Klimt couldn’t speak German, and the salesman couldn’t speak English, but they salesman’s assistant translated and they worked out a deal. Pat said she wrote a personal check on their bank in Independence, and they drove away . . .

. . . Since the Klimts were with another couple, and the Porsche only had room for two, the other couple bought a new Volkswagen and they toured Europe together. Klimt remembers strapping the car to a flatbed train car for a ride through the 12-mile Simplon tunnel between Switzerland and Italy. Pat sat knitting in the car by the dome light while Klimt worried that the battery might go dead . . .

. . . When the Klimts finished touring, TWA shipped the car back from Milan, Italy, to hn F. Kennedy International Airport for six cents a pound. Klimt flew his sons, Bob and Eric, age 11 and 5 respectively, to New York and the three of them drove the car back to Independence with the youngest boy riding in the tiny back seat . . .

. . . Klimt, 78, was in the Air Force from 1950 to 1954. He used the GI Bill to become an aircraft engine mechanic and that led to him being a flight engineer for the Lockheed Constellation. He went to pilot training and became a TWA captain who flew a Boeing 727. One of his last assignments before retiring in 1982 was flying from Brussels to Berlin . . .

. . . The Porsche, with a little over 30,000 miles, has been sitting since 1990. Klimt was always very particular about maintaining his car, but it is time for it to have a new owner . . .

“If I were 20 years younger,” he said, “I would never consider selling it, but I’m running out of time.” . . .'

- See more at: http://tomstrongman.com/one-owner-19....Klm7vw0d.dpuf

[Scheebs]

. The Porsche, with a little over 30,000 miles, has been sitting since 1990. Klimt was always very particular about maintaining his car, but it is time for it to have a new owner . . .

Of course it only has 30,000 miles. It never left home without being strapped to it's flatbed truck!

[wjishi]

Another question about lids, where do you find the stamped number ?!

[mrar]

Another question about lids, where do you find the stamped number ?!

Posted this pic up once before.
This lid was stamped up on the top right of the center bar.
(no black present on this lid)

[wjishi]

I just bought this lid that has black but not sure how original or whatnot!

[Merv]

This (admittedly) 68 car is generally acclaimed to be pretty original in detail (see last pic) http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ongues-wagging

As is this one: http://cprclassic.com/images/carspre...pe/900W/37.JPG

And this: http://www.exoticclassics.com/1968-p...?make=PORSCHE&

Two seemingly with black under the grille and one without ...

[Schiefer]

This (admittedly) 68 car is generally acclaimed to be pretty original in detail (see last pic) http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ongues-wagging

The deck lid on the "tongues wagging-car" is a bit confusing. According to what the new owner wrote in the Esses-article, this 68S was originally delivered with a 3-bar grill.

[Jens]

'68................