Lost and Found Sticky for e9coupe.com...any interest?

[Nachtycoupe]

Just throwing this out there for interest. I've been wondering how long it might take to get something like this going. But the Early911Sregistry has been doing this since 2009. I realize there is a bit of debate over whether having a numbers matching motor in your E9 or E3 will really affect value too much, but it does matter to certain people. And it doesn't just have to be the motor, but maybe valuable livery that went with certain race cars or certain Alpina/CSL/Hartge parts/records that go to specific cars etc. This is a good way to reunite parts with their original cars. Sometimes these parts/motors/chassis's are just laying around shops or garages when somebody would really appreciate having them back on the original car. Here is the link to Early911Sregistry to see what I am talking about:

http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums/showthread.php?56383-Lost-and-Found-Thread

I think it's a great idea but again, just throwing it out there to the members of the community and the moderators. Another thing is BMW was smart in that the VIN matches the Motor#, where Porsche you have to pay for a COA to find all that out. Sometimes it is hard to tell even if a vintage Porsche has the original motor, they still have to send away for Certificate to verify even if in same date code range. So, it will be easy for us to know what the number of the proper matching number motor is without having to pay for a certificate. Anyhow.....there are some interesting stories in that thread, worth a read.

 

[Markos]

I was wondering about this with my parts CSI. The block is from another CSI, which isn't in the registry. I'll likely register the block VIN also, but haven't gotten to it.

 

[FGS]

The more a classic car becomes appreciated, the more a matching number engine increase its evaluation. Having had a couple of Porsches (a 356 and an early 911s) I know very well the matter also because the classic Porsche market is nuts.
BMW was smart to match the engine number with the chassis number (as Maserati and Ferrari did before them), but that means that many would try to fake the engine number as it happened for Porsche (indeed now Porsche doesn't give you anymore the engine number: you tell them the number and they'll write on the CoA if the car is matching number or not).

Said so, I think yours is a good idea.