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Yes and the owner of 30 years, is the one that looked a little closer at his old funkedilic hot rod and realized what he had!!
JUst wow. If you wonder why traditional curated print media is dying while social media is flourishing, look no further than that thread! History happening in real time...
It's a pre-production prototype 901. There are a few new posts, one showing a photo of a factory list of prototypes with engine numbers listed. #005 had its engine swapped a few times. Speculation is that it might be a press car.
My bad, #005 is a production model, #5 built Sept 1964, the 13 prototypes had #13XXX vin numbers. #007 was the first one.
Ive been following this story on the Early 911S registry but something Ive wondered about is how this car was registered for the road. Wouldnt the owners registration reflect a 1965 911 based on the VIN despite the IROC flares and mods? If the registration reflects a 1965 911, wouldnt the owner already know that he had a special car? Don't all states require the year of the vehicle on the registration?
Just seems like the OP must have known he had a 1965 911 based on the title. Even if a GI brought this car into the states in the 1960s, it would still have the year on the the title that would stay with the car to this day.
It never ceases to amaze me, how these "barn find" & "treasure" stories come to be. It all makes for a great pre auction story for prices. Then again, I am giving the OP the benefit of the doubt. Just hard to, given the other thread he started, he really shot himself in the foot for that one.
There are some inconsistencies with this guys story. In a previous post on Early S he referred to this same car as a "recent aquisition" then changed his story to an elaborate one about him "discovering" he had #5 after owning it since 1976. The body VIN stamp in the trunk is on a raised bar like a later car, and there is no aluminum plate above it. I think some parts of the car are 300005, but there's been some major repairs done to it. And I wish the guy would just be straightforward with the backstory.
Indeed, I cant speak for all, but I know everyone would love for the whole story to be true, I mean, its straight out of a movie! How he saw his first one, then buys the "poster", then saves up, then purchases it! But over the years, I've seen this same story play out and "usually" the next chapter is 9 out 10 times, an auction to follow.
I just watched an episode of Wayne Carini Chasing Classic Cars where he buys a 1965 911 (must be an old episode as the car is only bid to $67K). He makes a big deal of verifing it is a 1965 almost impling the seller may not know what he has. Are the 1965 models in the U.S. truly "hidden" with many being mis-identified as a different year by the registration, etc.? What would be on the registration for a 1964 901? Wouldn't the 1964 901's be registered as 1965 model years on the title? I just don't get how owner's of these cars could be unwitting to what they have unless the titles are jacked up with the incorrect model year, salvage title, etc. What am I missing here?
I do not know what is going on and do not understand why the owner just does not take a lot of pictures and give a lot of information, it seems like there is effort to be mysterious. I will point out that 30 years ago a 1965 911 was not a special car, and that fact would be of no particular interest to a owner of a SC wanabe. These were just considered worthless old cars that would be great bases for making modern SC looking 911's. There are many cases of SC's or turbo look cars that really are a 67 911S.
