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Fitting VW Beetle Tow Bar

https://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/threads/113854/fitting-vw-beetle-tow-bar

m4co ·

Hello,

Does this tow bar require the guard to be cut when installing on VW Beetle?
Does anyone have pictures of it installed?

[img]https://i.ibb.co/RPkkFPF/20200927-173627-HDR-resized.jpg[/img]

Thank you

grumble ·

m4co wrote:Hello,

Does this tow bar require the guard to be cut when installing on VW Beetle?
Does anyone have pictures of it installed?

[img]https://i.ibb.co/RPkkFPF/20200927-173627-HDR-resized.jpg[/img]

Thank you
I thought that I had seen nearly all of the towbars on the early beetles but I have never seen one of those. I do not know of any that required body panels to be cut as this would weaken them, there was a similar one that was popular but apart from the bumper mountings the mounting arm went forwards and another hole was drilled to support the bar.

bushed ·

looks extra heavy and weird as Grumble said...unseen b4! I would cut off the top above the bar and dd another bolt inside add strong larger washers when bolting the 3rd hole.

HappyDaze ·

That tow-bar would not be any good for serious towing. There would surely be some damage done due to 'stretching'.

There was a tow-bar available once, that connected to the torsion-bar tubes, the 2 'big' engine bolts, and the bumper bracket mounts. The towing loads were distributed over a wide range of strong points. I successfully towed my Formula Vee behind the '68 1500 Beetle, using this tow-bar.

grumble ·

HappyDaze wrote:That tow-bar would not be any good for serious towing. There would surely be some damage done due to 'stretching'.

There was a tow-bar available once, that connected to the torsion-bar tubes, the 2 'big' engine bolts, and the bumper bracket mounts. The towing loads were distributed over a wide range of strong points. I successfully towed my Formula Vee behind the '68 1500 Beetle, using this tow-bar.
They were a good bar and we must have fitted hundreds during the 1960's 1970's but there were a lot of other bars that were just that and stretched the bum of the beetle.