[jeff968]

Our good friend and fellow 968er Paul Anthony visited the Porsche museum in Germany and brought back these pictures of the 968 cab that is on display there. Now, looking at these two pictures, what doesn't make since from a production perspective? Now, I know the car and will explain why it does make since after you've had some time to figure out what the problem is. Have fun.

Photo 1 is the exterior of the car:



Photo 2 is the interior of the car: (like that fish eye lens?)

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[Darryl]

I'll take a stab at this...

No front bumperettes indicating a ROW car, but GM third brakelight on trunk indicating a US car.

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[banditsc]

No side markers and it's got a box in the back instead of seats.

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[jeff968]

Good observations. It is indeed a North American spec 968 cab. It has the rear bumperettes and no light on the fenders, the HMBSL, and the rear glove boxes. Interesting the the front bumperettes have been removed, a common upgrade here, but that is not what I'm after.

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[94SilverCab]

Later model seats?

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[flash]

you mean like why there is one sport seat and one regular?

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[jeff968]

Seats, you are getting warm. Bob, I think that is just the way that photo came out, the are both standard seats but Jay, you are getting warm. Leave it to you guys to spot more stuff [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] Anyway, look at the exterior paint and the interior.

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[flash]

the pics are odd angles, so a lot of things look weird, like the rear seat backs sitting funny, and what seems to be 2 tone seats

one thing i think i see though is a blue defroster grid beyond the grey dash cap

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[Pauli]

Not a factory color combo? Gray int w/ is it Maritime blue?

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[DayDreamer]

It has a number plate..... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

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[Tom030]

I can't put my finger on it but the the interior looks like a black and white photo and the exterior looks like it's been "digitally enhanced"
~tom

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[Fox944]

Was that exterior color (riviera blue) available in 1992? It has a recessed hood badge (early 1992 car)

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[biotechee]

Flip down rear seat back things?

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[Johannvb]

I saw this car this past weekend. I did not notice anything funny other than the things mentioned already. Flash, the blue you are seeing is a reflection, I don't remember the dash having two colours.

What I did notice though was that this car has only 12 miles one it!

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[flash]

i can see the individual vent holes in blue - i don't think they are a reflection

i can see that the boot cover is improperly installed (and the seat backs aren't closed)

obviously there is the contradiction of the euro plate and euro lenses but no side markers and it has the rear storage units

i'm not seeing much else though that looks out of place

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[Johannvb]

You're right, after zooming in some more I can see the vent holes too. Hmmm

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[jeff968]

Dino wins the prize!!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

The paint color of Riviera blue is a 94.5-95 color. However, a photo of the interior clearly shows the early "944-style" seat which were used on 92-early-94 cars. So how could a late model color be paired with the early seats? Well, it just so happens that Paul took a photo of the VIN for me and I have this car in the cab registry. It is a North American car and it happens to be the last 1993 cab, PS840414. It also happens to be the ONLY color to sample solid (paint code 98) North American cab. I'm thinking, and I'm speculating here, that they were trying out Riviera blue as a potential color for the 968 and shot this car with it. I'm not sure if Riviera blue was an old Porsche color or what.

Well, for those of us into production details I thought it was interesting. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

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[Monstrous4Banger]

My coupe is PS820415. Also a 93. Im not familiar with the vin nomenclature. Mine has a 2 where the cab has a 4, is that a code for coupe/cab? Was mine next in line, or does the 2 mean something different? Last of the coupes maybe? I noticed I was one digit off, on what I think is the production number, the last digits, right?

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[jeff968]

"My coupe is PS820415. Also a 93. Im not familiar with the vin nomenclature. Mine has a 2 where the cab has a 4, is that a code for coupe/cab? Was mine next in line, or does the 2 mean something different? Last of the coupes maybe? I noticed I was one digit off, on what I think is the production number, the last digits, right?"


They have separate VIN series (the coupes and cabs, North american, ROW (rest of world)). PS840414 was the last 93 cab. PS820668 was the last North American coupe. Your coupe is #1004 of the full run of 2,234 and #355 of the 1993 coupes. A cab VIN looks like WP0CA296##S840### where a coupe reads WP0AA296##S820###. I have the individual digit translation somewhere but you can see there are 2 characters that separate a cab from a coupe.

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[firefish]

Doesn't the headlights look funny?

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