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posted on September 7th, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Beetle bonnets


How many different bonnets are there?

This info will help a lot of people hopefully

I sorta see

-Oval. Early oval bonnet has the inner support pannels made of three individual pieces
-Oval. Later changed to one piece
- 1200 6 Volt
- 6 Volt. Early 64 they didnt have the wolfsburg crest and a longer chrome strip
- Standard / 1300. Early type, the standard bugs changed in 73. * note - some standards have no holes for strip
- Standard / 1300. Theres no vw badge and longer chrome strips with 73 onwards standards * note - some standards have no holes for strip
- 1302 S Super
- 1303 L Bug. 73-74 had the round cut

- 1303 L Bug. 75 was the square cut
- Mexican

Is there a full list that we can make?
No mucking around or "I heard" ideas I have already done that. Facts is what we need.




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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 07:00 AM



there are 2 different Oval types or pre bonnet badge bump

one has a full under support section and the other has less metal in the support ( bit hard to describe )

also they have differnt holes for the crest badge at bottom of chrome strip




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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 08:32 AM



The early oval bonnet Dave mentions, has the inner support pannels made of three individual pieces, later changed to one piece.



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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 09:53 AM



From Early 64 they didnt have the wolfsburg crest and a longer chrome strip

The standard bugs changed in 73, theres no vw badge and longer chrome strips with 73 onwards standards

and there's 2 different Lbug hoods
73-74 had the round cut and 75 was the sqaure cut
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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 07:16 PM



I am editing the first post as we go. Anyone who can help with years, model names, descriptions would be great. I will continue to edit the first post. We will keep this to Australian models, and not get into opening the global can of Beetle models worms. Maybe some nice descriptive pictures showing "round cut", "square cut" etc.



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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 09:03 PM



Some standards had no chrome, built in Germany I think, but offered here, does that qualify for an Australian model?



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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 09:06 PM



ok what would my 69 be?



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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 09:17 PM



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Some standards had no chrome, built in Germany I think, but offered here, does that qualify for an Australian model?


Well if the actual bonnet is the same except for having no holes, then it could come under the same description as 'Standards' with a * note - some have no holes for strip




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posted on September 8th, 2010 at 09:55 PM



This is round cut

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d170/blue74l/Marty/100_0361.jpg

main difference is the line following the bumper and where the handle is

Photo belo is square cut

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