TheSamba.com :: View topic - Rear roof strengtheners

Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:06 pm

yeh yeh ok :D . So I was hoping someone could shed some light on the different styles of rear corner roof strengtheners / speaker brackets or whatever they are on a deluxe bus. Some seem to have strengthening ribs in, and some do not. Anyone know when a change took place? Who's got what on their deluxes?

Here's a few for starters:

Oct '54 deluxe (with ribs):

unknown date '53 - '55 deluxe (no ribs):

unknown date '54 - '55 deluxe (no ribs):

Thanks guys!

Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:59 am

Ask Rockstock Ben, he has some pics of different ones. From memory mine are ribbed (feb55)

Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:47 pm

see this thread
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344969
seems update to ribbed version occurred sometime between 1953 and 1954

a guess would be at the end of the deep skylight model
which www.barndoor.dk has as between 20-044995 and 20-049493
somewhere Jan to March 1953

Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:16 am

Thanks guys,

I've seen the flat style ones on later deluxes with no fuseboxes in the dash. I assume that the fusebox detail changed in Dec 53 like the standard pods, so a fair whack later than the change from deep skylights? Any '53 / '54 deluxe owners out there care to shed any light?

Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:07 pm

52 deluxe ones are different as well.

They have a larger speaker mount hole and four fixation holes.
No pressings.