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Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:32 pm

hey all, I've been browsing around the classifieds on here, looking at some of the headlight accessories, and it seems that every time i find some i like, they arent made to fit a 73 transporter....so do you guys know where i can find the headlight visors to fit my bus? or the pebble guards? or the cat eyes?

thanks everybody

colby

Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:37 pm

Any set of eyebrows will fit any 68-79 Bus. There's no difference in the headlights, they're all 7" round bulbs. Same thing with the cat eyes and other accessories, though I have to say I'm partial to the eyebrows.

Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:40 pm

well thats odd...i've had a minimum of 3 vendors tell me that their products wouldnt fit my bay...haters...

Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:46 pm

Well, they're wrong is all I can tell you. There is no different at all between your '73 and my '79. I've also run eyebrows on my '74 and my '69 Westfalia. I usually pick up a set at a show, I find them to be cheapest that way. The set on this particular '79 were found in a '72 Transporter I brought home. Louvered and rusty, perfect for the RustyBus.

Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:54 pm

:) well boy i'm sure glad theyre wrong. i love the eyebrow look.

thanks alot.

colby

Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:35 pm

I like the eyebrow look too. I got mine at a local VW store and just had to bend them a little to make them fit.

Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:38 pm

heres a question, whats the difference in the "sleepy" look visors and the normal ones? anybody have a pic to show the difference? oh, and will the rock guards fit on the headlight at the same time as the visor??

thats an AWESOME PIC.

Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:04 pm

The only difference is where they're mounted. They're exactly the same part.

Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:12 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=562210

these are the sleepy ones i was talking about...they say that theyre longer than normal ones...i was just wondering if anybody had tried them...

Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:12 pm

VDubTech wrote: The only difference is where they're mounted. They're exactly the same part.

i don't think this is true.

i am not a visor afficionado, in fact i dislike them pretty intensely, but...

some visors seem to be 'true' bus visors that are designed so the top is horizontal when mounted to a bay bus. because the beetle headlight ring sits 90 degrees clocked from that of a bay bus, when you put beetle visors on a bus they are droopy. people have gotten used to them looking this way but once upon a time there was a difference between the bus visors and beetle ones. now there only seems to be one kind available.

Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:17 am

c-mack wrote: heres a question, whats the difference in the "sleepy" look visors and the normal ones? anybody have a pic to show the difference? oh, and will the rock guards fit on the headlight at the same time as the visor??

thats an AWESOME PIC.

I'm asking this too, I have stone guards on my '67 square and would lke to add the visors also :D