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| posted on December 16th, 2006 at 04:43 PM |
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Quick question for Oval buffs
Got a quick question for all the oval 'devotees'.
With an oval, should the bonnet emblem (the VW on just in front of the windscreen) be flat or raised? or did they do both? The front clip has the four
fingers, but am curious as to the bonnet. There is no other bonnet emblem down near the aluminium handle.
2ndly, the flange that the rear guard bolts go through, should it be a constant width the whole way long, or shoudl it sort of step in like a really
spread out castellated feature?
I am not asking for me, but for someone who I looked at a car for today.
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| posted on December 16th, 2006 at 05:50 PM |
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bonnet is flat under the vw badge, and yeh i think the rear guard things step in.
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| posted on December 16th, 2006 at 05:54 PM |
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bonnet emblem is a flat type of deal n flat on the bonnet..
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| posted on December 16th, 2006 at 07:37 PM |
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The early 53-6 ovals had the indents in the guard flanges, 56-7 didnt. Same as with the headlight bucket wires the early ones had steel tubes that
bolted to the body, later just plastic/rubber tubing covered the wires, with a rubber gromet through the body.
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| posted on December 17th, 2006 at 07:01 AM |
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robo, all the front guards should have the tubes from the headlight bucket to the body.
the bonnet should be flat, not raised, and the bracing across the windscreen end should be made from 3 pressings. one across the center with a piece
for each hinge overlapping it.
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| posted on December 17th, 2006 at 08:55 AM |
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the rear window should be sort of oval shaped
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| posted on December 17th, 2006 at 04:57 PM |
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bom tish!
thanks all.
I knwo the rear window is oval sam, same as mine and yours :P
Reason I asked was a car that I looked at for someone and it had the right front clip but the bonnet was raised under the VW emblem and the guy
selling couldn't be sure if it had ever been hit/changed. Also as my Ovals rear guards that were straight on the flange that made me ask about that
as the ones on this car were indented. So it is probably an 54 or so, but with a later bonnet.
thanks all 
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| posted on December 18th, 2006 at 08:48 PM |
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A 54 will have the 2 indents above and below the striker plate in the door pillars. Also have ribbed doors and a wide spring deck lid. The bonnets are
really hard to get for a 54 as they have a seperate bolt hole for the bonnet stay and a triangle plate under the top 4 tab emblem. Heartlights would
also be there and interior things like batwing steering and ribbed door handles. Easy way to tell is chack the back of the speedo for the date stamp
eg: mine has 1.54 which is jan 1954. Some of these traits ran over until June 55.
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