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Originally Posted by Noah930

So instead of 158 (or however many the books state) US targas being built in 1990, there were actually only 98 made?

I was looking over at the Ultimate 964 Targa thread on rennlist, and 1990 VINs range from ...075 up to ...721, so I can't just take the largest VIN and subtract by 60. It appears the VINs weren't exactly sequential.
https://rennlist.com/forums/964-forum/518813-the-ultimate-964-targa-thread.html

I don't really care one way or the other if my car is "one of 158" or "one of 98"--just curious now that you've raised the issue.

Very valid point. You know they say there is an exception to every rule. For some reason 1990 was the year of the exception and the verdict is still out on these.

I recently looked at a 90 C4 coupe and it's vin number was considerably out of range by some 640 or so numbers. I have started a thread on rennlist. Nathan Merz chimed in and agreed that in his database of many cars for some reason 1990 has some oddities that are out of sequence and above what we know to be the final vin number. Still trying to figure out how and why this occurred and what the impact on numbers are. Although he and I and others I know have rarely seen anything other than a few out of sequence and with as many cars as we have on file one would expect the sampling would have produced many more. I will try to figure this out although it would appear that like the later cars had vin's changed from one MY to the next via code 718 prior to this they added a few cars into the mix before this process was established. I must assume these cars were slated for ROW delivery but they fit a few US orders in and through them into the mix using the ROW vin sequence.

If this is the case it could mean there are more or it could just mean that they transferred from the ROW market to the US. I guess it will be awhile before this is figured out.

If only Porsche would release more info about actual production numbers of these cars it would be so helpful. I did do a complete run of all vins for the RSA and US spec 3.6T and 3.3T and they all appeared to be within sequence so far this only seems to apply to 90 MY 964's and it would appear only a few of these oddities exist. So far nobody has posted another 90 coupes out of sequence which I would have expected more if they did exist.