vze2jshn

Very nice. Noticed the **** next to A/C vent in the photos. Yours no longer has it correct?

BRB-83-911SC

Wow, this is great stuff! Have you been to Michigan yet to give your baby a hug?

Hilton

Cool.. photographic record of various number plates of the other early press cars too

Jadz928

Mine has the ****, but also has the later style louvers. Need the really early ones.

More than likely after the Holidays. Mid-winter in Michigan. Fun!

rixter

you may be in luck, I might just have one in the old parts bin
I'll check this weekend for ya

Podguy

My 78 is number 535. It does not have the shut off **** on the center vent. It has a blank spot where the **** is which I have seen on some models use the space for an after market alarm keyboard.

The **** must have been deleted early in the production run. Or it was not on the early ones and added after 535. I got some parts off a car in the 1000 or more and it had the **** and some other very funcky things.

I am sure there are hundreds of inconsitences you will run into. I can not tell from the new pictures if the dash and rear quarters were black or dark brown. I do not think there were any red cars with dark brown interiors. The ones I have seen started out life Burgundy or some other colors and were later painted red. But then again there was a lot of variation.

tilac999

Joe Rusz's memories of the launch. How cool it that?!

M. Requin

Jim, that's fantastic stuff. Documentation for your car is going to be incredible. And I love the photo of the lineup warmup. That might have to become wallpaper for a while!

linderpat

Wow, that is some great stuff there, and those pictures are indispensible to a good resto job. You certainly do have a special car there indeed!

Of course, the one thing that really jumps out at me, and for which your car (from the pictures) stands alone - is the perfect alignment of the glove box!
I have never seen one that is exact like that.

Jadz928

You bet, Hilton. I'm taking iventory on the preproduction press cars in Post #4
These photos helped me find 3 white cars I didn't know about - one of which I can't read the number plate.
None-the-less, the count is up to 14 if you include the super early white & petro blue ones and the Geneva show car. Is it possible the white and petro blue ones were late prototypes (say W6 and W7)?

So yea, there were six 928s at the press launch, 4 white ones and 2 red ones.
EDIT: later confirmed all 11 press cars were there.

Just a little tidbit, but I know from reading Motor Sport, May '77, that out of the 11 press cars, only two remained in press fleet duty - the rest went to Weissach for further testing.

Thanks Martin. I really like that one too!

I like this one too because it reminds me of Fraggle...

Dean_Fuller

haven't seen this yet so here ya go...I hope it helps. Its a Panorama April of 1977. I don't see YOUR car but it may have some good info.

fraggle

QUIT IT OR I'LL GO BUY ANOTHER BUS!!! Since my other one went 'project failure'....


I'll have to paint it just like that. It's so cool. Heck I think the one I scrapped was the same vintage, it looks like an early bay window.

Jadz928

Thanks Dean! Love that cover shot. Is that the red S-CX 2136? My mobile can't pick that up...

Fraggle... you know you want it! When I saw that drill press, I thought those Porsche techs are rock stars!

Dean_Fuller

Most of the pics are of the S-CX2136 car. There is one pic that may show the back bumper of your car. I noticed the EURO Fog Light is not included in these bumbers as well as no beading and no Euro side markers.

Jadz928

^^^
Hey Dean... if the text is legible, could you send the RAW photo to my email jadz928 (at) hotmail dotcom ? Thank you much!