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Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:42 am

ZwitterND wrote: Bruce wrote: johnshenry wrote: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1255364

Seriously? Does that even fit a popes nose stud spacing?
Zwitters are splits too!

True, but that thing ain't like the one on my zwitter.

Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:02 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1261236

Not KDF and not a cogwheel. This handle was used until at least '53..

Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:10 pm

johnshenry wrote: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1261236

Not KDF and not a cogwheel. This handle was used until at least '53..

Hi John, it does have the KDF/VW windmill/flying swastika logo, I don't know how long that made it past 1945, what with the swastika component being so obvious.

I think the part is also on ebay at the moment with better pictures:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220937219152?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Cheers!

Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:18 pm

Those where really installed in standard models up to the early 50s.

Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:40 pm

Kapt. Q wrote: johnshenry wrote: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1261236

Not KDF and not a cogwheel. This handle was used until at least '53..

Hi John, it does have the KDF/VW windmill/flying swastika logo, I don't know how long that made it past 1945, what with the swastika component being so obvious.

I think the part is also on ebay at the moment with better pictures:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220937219152?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Cheers!

I seem to have read somewhere that that flying swastika logo was a part vendor specific thing. If you can see it closely, it does not have the "cogs" on the outside of the VW logo. It is similar to the spinning swastika VW logo hubcaps that were made for the aftermarket and often scorned upon for their likeness to the Nazi symbol. Perhaps this one was so small an innocuous nobody noticed.

I have found in in many early '50s original handles.

Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:55 pm

I suppose that new moulds were not an option first thing after the war, there must have been more immediate problems, but I'm suprised it made it so long; as you say though, it's not obvious. The windmill logo seems to have had quite a short life, I have found it on a few schwimmwagen parts, most notably the later 2 piece front differential housing, but in general it's usually the cogged logo.

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/813043.jpg

Cheers!

Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:40 am

We might have a new #1:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PETRI-SUPERB-RAREST-ALL-ST...391wt_1396

Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:50 am

johnshenry wrote: We might have a new #1:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PETRI-SUPERB-RAREST-ALL-ST...391wt_1396

Looks to me you would have a hell of a time wiring that thing without the portion that mounts on the column. I don't see it in any of the pictures.

Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:52 am

He's selling a clock to go with it:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370583261880?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

I know it's rare, but...

Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:59 am

johnshenry wrote: We might have a new #1:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PETRI-SUPERB-RAREST-ALL-ST...391wt_1396

But think about the ebay bucks you will get! And don't forget if you buy it you be "a most talked about person" ...now what they will be saying about you...well thats another story :shock:

Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:37 am

That is one ugly wheel

Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:03 pm

Wiggy wrote: That is one ugly wheel

I agree....

Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:26 pm

johnshenry wrote: Wiggy wrote: That is one ugly wheel

I agree....

I like it... :D But that $11,500.00 price tag is ridiculous

Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:43 pm

I might be inclined to run it on a bus, but that hub seems way out of proportion for a bug.

Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:56 pm

53 0val wrote: I might be inclined to run it on a bus, but that hub seems way out of proportion for a bug.

I agree, looks like something that belongs in a 57 Cadilac.

Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:25 am

It just goes not along with the clean and simple lines of a beetle.
And for that money I´d buy a car, not a steering wheel.

Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:41 am

usariemen wrote: It just goes not along with the clean and simple lines of a beetle.
And for that money I´d buy a car, not a steering wheel.

I can't imagine that wheel on a 356 either. :?

Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:15 pm

.....and it is not even complete......and cracked, so you can't even use it after you shelled out the $11.5k.

Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:19 pm

IN2VWS wrote: .....and it is not even complete......and cracked, so you can't even use it after you shelled out the $11.5k.

Wow, you're right............Wall art for $11.5k. :roll:

Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:32 pm

IN2VWS wrote: .....and it is not even complete......and cracked, so you can't even use it after you shelled out the $11.5k.
Not to mention its FUGLY as all hell