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I have just looked at my 1973 911T Maintenance book. The car was supplied by AFN and registered on the 15/09/73.
The details are exactly the same as Andy's pictures below except the No is 208309
Mike
Lightweight_911 wrote:.
It's interesting that although Porsche KG became Porsche AG some time during 1972 that the Maintenance Record for the '73 911T with a print run date of VII/73 still shows the company name as Porsche KG.
Here's another UK-supplied RHD car (not via AFN though) which, although it has an earlier print run date (III/73), shows the company name as Porsche AG:
- a slightly different format for the number on the reverse side:
So from this it seems your 73 RHD T that was registered a week after the similar 73T in book 2 (above) got the maintenance book version III /73 print date six months prior ....rather than the VIII /73 version without a number. Sequence of reg not same as production date or shipping date or maybe earlier inventory of books still in the system. The car shown in book 2 also 73 T was registered in a Sussex dealer not London so maybe that has a bearing?
Seen nothing yet posted showing example of the earliest ROW English language 73 model year TES Carrera 2.7 maintenance record book I know was used before the 9/72 TESCarrera 2.7 example posted -- not a strong response to just get handful of examples from across the whole forum in response to Ian's request. Alternatively those ones not posted might be very rare !
Update: Similar question but wider scope than AFN or British ROW over on early s registry. Started a thread inspired by this question.
HughH from down under and has a Rhd early 911 (some might know him) has a hypothesis that the kundendienst heft number somehow implies in its six digit code the country or country market grouping when linking to aftermarket warranty. Probaly important as warranties were not consistent across different markets afaik. KD HfT Nr was normally used in Kardex until that paper card system was superseded around 68/9. Insufficient maintenance record examples posted here and on that other forum so far to tell if Hugh is onto something but there does seem to be some pattern emerging. On the basis of small sample size of posted examples so far it seems the kundendienst heft number for UK or ROW markets English has 20xxxx. Probaly just a coincidence this matches the .20 suffix on ROW markets English print reference as explained above. Other countries and languages might be encoded in first two digits but don't seem to follow the same suffix .
More examples from British market or other English ROW would help Hugh look into this idea if folks are comfortable sharing the kundendienst heft number stamped inside the front page -- usually six digits preceded by No. Or in some years number has a single *.
911MRP wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:05 pm
PS Ian Anthony Sales Ltd was the Manchester area dealer in Bury. I'm not from area but happen to know this because my car was bought new from them in 72.
Steve,
Do you have anymore info about them? Is the man himself, Ian Anthony, still around?
It wasn’t Ian Anthony was Ian and Anthony. Both joint principals passed away. Coincidentally Nick Faure did the artwork for their window stickers in 1972 so I gave him a sticker with his artwork I’d had reproduced when I hosted him for lunch on his birthday back in the spring.
Ian’s original post thread starter yielded a small flurry of photos of the maintenance books including the small print inside the cover but then it fizzled. I expect there are many more variations than the examples recorded.
Perhaps with this thread being reinvigorated it will yield more photo examples of the maintenance books and their differences as these would have been important documents and the version put in cars were updated periodically. Updated to issue new batches of the same edition of stock were low ( the print quantity is often one datapoint embedded as part of the print reference inside the cover page) but also updates done to reflect the changes to the model year lineup in preparation for new model year. Some of mine were posted above. I remain interested in Ian’s original request to see what folks can share as I’d expect we can learn from this literature. Redact names and address or chassis number if deemed sensitive as sure there still things to learn from the evolution of the books even without personal data being visible.
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