just pouring through the vintage veedub/west coast metric catalog and came across the section for dashboards and accessories and i noticed that the dash in my 68 is the same as the ones they have listed as 1958-1967. do i have an earlier beetle than i thought i did? or is this simply a difference between US spec and what we have over here?
[Edited on 8-7-2003 by cray]
Bizarre ·
We never got the mythical 67 model the states did.
Our 68 was a later model (oh der!) than the state's 67. So what is listed as a States 67 is sort of equivelent of our 68
Make sense?
cray ·
yep, that's what i thought
thanks 🙂
The_Bronze. ·
How come my Baja is plated a 71 but has Ball joint suspension, Swing rear, a flat dash like a standard but the superbug half moon vent behind the rear windows?
This has had a few people scratching their heads - somehow it all dosen't add up.
Is it an import?
PS Wheel well is upright and has a filler lid.
1303Steve ·
Hi Bronze
Your Beetle is a poverty pack in a way, should have had 1300 twin port motor with drums on the front. The y sold your betle along with the Superbug, yours was the cheaper one to try to hold off the Jap onslaught.
1302Steve
helbus ·
Our Beetle is the same as the Bronzes, but it doesn't have the half moon vents behind the rear side windows?
The_Bronze. ·
So is it a superbug or not because both my mechanic and I are scratching heads.
What your saying steve sounds right but ordering stuff like cables is a pain. Tried the super first for accelerator cable and had to replace it for the standard and yet 1/2 the people I see call it a super, 1/2 call it a standard and 1 has called it an import.
You are right - it was a 1300 with the twinport with drums. It's had a little revamp since then apparently.