Do we keep track of VIN#'s on junked cars?

[conedodger]

I was looking today for parts for my 914 and came across HLS3017369 in a local junk yard. It had a some niggling little interior screws and such that I needed, but I also grabbed the aftermarket front and rear swaybars and blue (Suspension Techniques?) springs all the way around. Just for giggles, I grabbed the SU's and manifold as well as the aftermarket headers. I didn't take it, but the exhaust from the header back was new... I don't need any of this stuff but it seemed too good to risk it going to the crusher with the car. Oh! It has a Series I rear hatch with the vertical defroster stripes and vents. I wasn't aware that these went this deep into the VIN#'s?

On 914World we have a VIN registry to record our own, and 'dead' VIN#'s.

Edited June 30, 2012 by conedodger

[Arne]

Rob, there is an online spreadsheet for VINs at http://www.editgrid.com/user/mlwilliams/Z_Car_Registry and there are numerous "retired" cars listed there.

FWIW, the vented hatches (and all the rest of the Series 1 stuff) ran through VIN ~20000 or so. Some of the cars right around that point had a mixture of Series 1 & 2 parts.

The vertical defroster grid ran part-way through the '72 model year.

[Mikes Z car]

Rob,

I did the same thing you did when I found a 240Z in the local junkyard, I grabbed some things I don't need just to preserve them.

Mike

[conedodger]

Rob,

I did the same thing you did when I found a 240Z in the local junkyard, I grabbed some things I don't need just to preserve them.

Mike

You kind of feel responsible to preserve whatever should be preserved...