[Dave at Pelican Parts]

Wow, John, your eyes are much better than mine!!!

One problem identifying 914s in detail is that so many of the obvious different parts can be swapped between years. For instance, this car has a 70-72 front bumper because it is chrome (not large rubber) and has no rubber "bumper tits" on it, but it is trivial to swap an early bumper onto a 73 or 74 car, and not very difficult to swap onto a 75-76 car either.

With that said, and assuming that nothing was updated or backdated on the car, then this car is a 1972 model year. The bumper says 70-72, and there looks to be a moveable passenger seat present, which says 72-76. 1972 is the only overlap in those two ranges.

It is pretty certainly a four-cylinder car, as it would be exceedingly unusual to fit four-lug steel wheels onto a Six.

So, again assuming that nothing has been swapped around on it, it should be a 1972 914-4 with a 1.7 liter engine and a tail-shift transmission.

But that is making quite a few assumptions....

--DD