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| posted on January 30th, 2009 at 01:07 PM |
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Flexi-glass fasty popouts??
What the deal with these? Were they ever offered in Australia? I'd heard a rumour that they didn't pass ADR's?
It's strange as I've only seen an early fasty with them and I have just picked up a 2/70 fasty which has them too.
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| posted on January 30th, 2009 at 05:01 PM |
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Once again, I think by deleting them from any local assembled vehicles it lowered the cost. Maybe different states had different regulations but
quite a few were to be seen around here in NSW. The only ones to retain pop-outs were the Squares which went right through to 1971.
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 posted on January 30th, 2009 at 11:27 PM |
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Volkswagen Australasia seemed to want to sell their cars as cheaply as possible..
so, the majority of cars assembled here had no accessories at all...
I really don't think they were offered to many people... as there just aren't many aussie VWs with any accessories...
yet in the UK & the US there are heaps of sunroofs in VWs
and other extras...
Have a look on Your glass - where was the glass made??
is it Sekurit ??
I'm thinking that all the bending glass may have come from Germany... I don't think ADRs had any influence..
I'd say You are VERY LUCKY to have the bending glass..
Not a lot of people know about it....
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 07:06 AM |
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Yeah it's Sekurit, all the other glass is stamped VWA.
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| posted on February 1st, 2009 at 06:01 AM |
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I had a '70 late model fasty with rear pop outs that had no hinges, the glass flexed. I always thought it was odd in a clever way, that VW designed
it with no hinges.
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| posted on February 1st, 2009 at 06:26 AM |
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The only popouts ever to be fitted to all fastbacks were the flexglass ones. There were no normal hinged types.
DH
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| posted on April 26th, 2009 at 05:56 PM |
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Opened one of the popouts on the fasty yesterday and my soon to be brother in law almost crapped himself as I bent the glass He was suitably impressed.
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| posted on April 26th, 2009 at 10:10 PM |
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I think only select early Fasty's got them and I think the 2/70 is that cross over from early to late and has no side vents and still retains the
sloping parcel tray, thus some of those lucky models also got them.
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