i have seen door plaques with different inscriptions, mine has the color code, but the plaque has two lines,
can you share your examples ?
thank you
can you share your examples ?
thank you
what to put in the door plaque ?
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mine also has only one line, the paint code for Fjord.
Blank, paint code only 1970 CS.
thank you for all responses,
perfect information
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perfect information
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day66
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The body number is under the plate
Here's a pick of the body number under the plate (plate removed in this photo).
No relation to the VIN - I think it is just an internal Karmann working number.
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These body numbers appear to start over when 3.0CS production began as well.
Henny
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Yours is a very early 2800, must have the 55L tank too. Looks like they stamped early plates and then went to under the plate.
yes, that makes sense, body number, internal karmann, thanks
on an e9 remains bmw vin, on the Porsche mentioned probably karmann number rule
remembers me of a story about imported bmw cars into Spain during the import limitation times
people converted e9s to cabrios to get a vin number from the bodyshop, this way they were not importing a bmw, thus avoid number limitations
Maybe that explains the pictures of the convertible E9 in Spain from awhile back.
I am curious about the import limitations. Were there any other cars being made in Spain besides Seats?
I am curious about the import limitations. Were there any other cars being made in Spain besides Seats?
yes of course, those are the weird and rare Spanish convertibles, they are not registered as BMWs, I shared this story a while ago for a blue e9 cabrio that made the officers puzzle as to what kind of car it was, lots of bmw logos, but no bmw vin
spain was during 40+ years under a dictatorship with strong restrictions to imports a very protective economy trying to push internal production as you can imagine,
the national company for cars was SEAT, but there were other car brands that produce cars in Spain under license of their mains, as renault, ford and citroen,
SEAT products were very much connected to FIAT, i.e. the SEAT 600 based in the FIAT 500
another brand that was present but in much less proportion was GOGGOMOVIL (embryonic to GLASS, the well know company to bmw enthusiasts) with a very small factory in Mungia, close to Bilbao, this was under license of the German company and they produced only a few cars
all this is from top of my head, so very little precision in it, sorry