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Originally Posted by shaunmbenson View Post
My 85 has the ZZZ in the bonnet but not elsewhere -- Porsche sometimes wasn't sure if a body was going ROW or US/Canada so they'd stamp body in bonnet area with ZZZ and then elsewhere with the North american specific numbers once the car was built -- I bet this seller's looking at the wrong VIN and has a US car
The first number is the chassis number. Only once they determined the market did they assign a vin. A subtle distinction but they are not both vins.
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