Old School Porsche eccentricities
Discussion
Afternoon.
Just having a browse of the web today and ended up at Adrian Crawfords Porsche site and clicked on cars for sale. It brought back memories of when I bought my last car from him a few years back, a 968CS.
Whilst there picking the car up and having a chat he showed me a 3.2 Carrera (it was either a targa or cab) that had two chassis numbers. One was stamped above the other. The one was stamped over with a cross through each number, this was exceptionally neatly done and obviously at the factory. I asked Adrian why this was, and he really didn't have an idea other than maybe incorrectly given the wrong VIN, stamped and then altered. He had come across many unusual irregularities from Porsche over the years.
It was the reason he bought the car for himself, and when I asked him why, he stated it was just one of many eccentricities he had seen on 911s, when back in the day they were more of a less computerised, more hand built kind of company.
When I bought my 993 last year, it came with a service book for a 964. It's a very early 993 and its been firstly owned and since serviced every year at the same OPC, so they have known the car all its life. When looking at purchasing the car, I queried the OPC why the service book was for the previous model. They confirmed that the service book was indeed that supplied with the car when new, but were not surprised it came with the previous models service book, and the simple answer was properly that Porsche had excess service books left over and one was used when it was registered. This I would have found an absolutely bizarre way of going about things, if I hadn't a couple of years earlier had that chat with Adrian.
So I thought I'd ask the question. Has anybody else out there came across something strange when they purchased their cars? I just wondered if anyone had a Porsche with its own eccentricities, like wrong books, strange chassis numbers, mix of model change over parts, unusual or non existent paint codes, etc etc.
Just having a browse of the web today and ended up at Adrian Crawfords Porsche site and clicked on cars for sale. It brought back memories of when I bought my last car from him a few years back, a 968CS.
Whilst there picking the car up and having a chat he showed me a 3.2 Carrera (it was either a targa or cab) that had two chassis numbers. One was stamped above the other. The one was stamped over with a cross through each number, this was exceptionally neatly done and obviously at the factory. I asked Adrian why this was, and he really didn't have an idea other than maybe incorrectly given the wrong VIN, stamped and then altered. He had come across many unusual irregularities from Porsche over the years.
It was the reason he bought the car for himself, and when I asked him why, he stated it was just one of many eccentricities he had seen on 911s, when back in the day they were more of a less computerised, more hand built kind of company.
When I bought my 993 last year, it came with a service book for a 964. It's a very early 993 and its been firstly owned and since serviced every year at the same OPC, so they have known the car all its life. When looking at purchasing the car, I queried the OPC why the service book was for the previous model. They confirmed that the service book was indeed that supplied with the car when new, but were not surprised it came with the previous models service book, and the simple answer was properly that Porsche had excess service books left over and one was used when it was registered. This I would have found an absolutely bizarre way of going about things, if I hadn't a couple of years earlier had that chat with Adrian.
So I thought I'd ask the question. Has anybody else out there came across something strange when they purchased their cars? I just wondered if anyone had a Porsche with its own eccentricities, like wrong books, strange chassis numbers, mix of model change over parts, unusual or non existent paint codes, etc etc.
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