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WTB QLD: type1 swing axles, tubes & drums & low back beetle seats
peanut2425 - February 15th, 2011 at 04:36 PM

Hi guys, Im chasing a pair of swing axles, tubes and drums for a type 1 and a pair of low back seats in any condition for a type 1 also.

Has to be around south-east queensland, I am on the Sunshine Coast so will travel a couple hours to pick up. Lets hear what u got folks :)

And an aus vw fuel cap would also be desirable too.

OZ Towdster - February 15th, 2011 at 05:27 PM

Long or short axle and wide 5 or 4 stud , and what year seats , as the runners are different from early 60's to late 60's and different again in some seventy's

ancientbugger - February 16th, 2011 at 09:20 AM

Peanut we have a couple of early seats if you want to come and take a look. We're in Tinbeerwah (between Tewantin and Cooroy).

peanut2425 - February 16th, 2011 at 09:25 PM

Sorry guys, you'll have to excuse my lack of knowledge of vw's, this world is fairly foreign to me at this point and I only have a vague knowledge but I am trying to learn.

These parts will be for my country buggy so it is around '68, I am trying to eliminate the type 3 reduction hubs from the back as I won't be doing any off roading and will be sticking to the highway.
As for the seats ill get measurements between the rails to see exactly what I need.

peanut2425 - February 17th, 2011 at 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by OZ Towdster
Long or short axle and wide 5 or 4 stud , and what year seats , as the runners are different from early 60's to late 60's and different again in some seventy's


I need 5 stud and as for the long or short, i dont exactly know, can u tell me the difference in years they came out in?

I measured the seat runners at 395mm wide.

ancientbugger - February 18th, 2011 at 01:02 PM

These seats are 395mm across

peanut2425 - February 18th, 2011 at 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by ancientbugger
These seats are 395mm across


Awesome do u have a pic u can send me at all?

OZ Towdster - February 18th, 2011 at 07:01 PM

Peanut ,

The more i think about this , i think you'dd be better of trying to find some genuine CB seats as beetle ones will look rather weird and the springy base of the Beetle seats won't be very suited to the CB's suspension .

peanut2425 - February 19th, 2011 at 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by OZ Towdster
Peanut ,

The more i think about this , i think you'dd be better of trying to find some genuine CB seats as beetle ones will look rather weird and the springy base of the Beetle seats won't be very suited to the CB's suspension .


I think CB seats will be a bit hard to find so I was going to mod beetle seats to make them look more like CB seats and I will be changing the suspension on the CB anyways.