Ive been keeping a
911 SC Cabriolet Registry for the single year 1983 cabriolet for a few years. This is a call to hopefully surface a few more 83 cabs!
If you own, have owned or know of an 83 SC Cab please contact me with as much information as you can provide. Names are not shared as you'll see in the registry listings.
As of this post, here are some interesting 1983 SC Cabriolet stats.
US/Canada Stats:
To date I've tracked down 209 or 11.7% of the 1781 US/CA cars.
5 are no. longer with us and have gone to meet that great 911 in the sky.
- Earliest build date: 11/82 - VIN: WP0EA0911DS170070 a Canadian delivery car
- Latest build date: 7/83 - VIN: WP0EA0915DS171612 (originally owned by ZZ Top drummer) Frank Beard
^Coincidentally, both of the above are slant-nose conversions.
I also have further narrowed the range of when Porsche changed from the SC-style engine case with the round oil sump cover to the "new style" Carrera case by 50 cars.
- last SC engine case: WP0EA0917DS170574
- first Carrera engine case: WP0EA0911DS170618
That's a range of 44 cars, we're getting closer! Both of these cars have a 3/83 build date so we also now know that the changeover happened in March. I do have cars in the registry between these but unfortunately don't know what style engine case they have.
And here is a breakdown of colors where I can verify the actual color code:
- Guards Red (027) 74 cars
- Grand Prix White (908) 40 cars
- Black (700) 35 cars
- Slate Blue Metallic (661) 9 cars
- Ruby Red Metallic (810) 6 cars
- Light Bronze Metallic (966) 4 cars
- Moss Green Metallic (20C) 3 cars
- Quartz Gray Metallic (662) 3 cars
- Chiffon (182) 5 cars
- Pewter Metallic (655) 2 cars
And locations for the ones I know about
:
- Alabama 1 car
- Arizona 8 cars
- California 58 cars
- Colorado 6 cars
- Connecticut 7 cars
- Florida 14 cars
- Georgia 5cars
- Illinois 5 cars
- Indiana 5 cars
- Kansas 2 car
- Kentucky 1 car
- Maryland 2 cars
- Massachusetts 4 cars (including me!)
- Michigan 3 cars
- Missouri 3 cars
- Montana 1 car
- Nevada 4 cars
- New Jersey 5 cars
- New York 6 cars
- North Carolina 2 cars
- Ohio 2 cars
- Oklahoma 1 car
- Oregon 2 cars
- Pennsylvania 5 cars
- Rhode Island 1 car
- South Carolina 2 cars
- Tennessee 6 cars
- Texas 6 cars
- Utah 2 cars
- Virginia 3 cars
- Washington 5
ROW Stats
65 are registered (2.7%) of the 2406 ROW cars.
We don't have any build dates for the ROW cars yet.
- First VIN in registry: WP0ZZZ91ZDS150103
- Last VIN in registry: WP0ZZZ91ZDS152161
38 of these are documented in the US.
9 cars are RHD