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56Cabrio
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 Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:39 pm Post subject: Snowflake bracket Question. |
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Anyone ever seen snowflake brackets like these before ? The brackets are stamped in blue paint N 0510 SBR 36-1 Aust..then some more small letters or numbers i cant read.
In the bottom pic the top bracket is common but the bottom one ive never seen before
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66brm
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Is there a difference in the mount hole spacing? Could they be from a set of egg taillights rather than snowflakes?
Just throwing ideas out there, there was nothing different done here for taillights as far as I'm aware except in 60-61 when we and Italy ran 50/50 tails and we didn't have eggs, we went from hearts to snowflakes
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56Cabrio
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Is there a difference in the mount hole spacing? Could they be from a set of egg taillights rather than snowflakes?
Just throwing ideas out there, there was nothing different done here for taillights as far as I'm aware except in 60-61 when we and Italy ran 50/50 tails and we didn't have eggs, we went from hearts to snowflakes |
The mount hole spacing is about an inch shorter than the normal ive seen and about a 1/2 inch longer than my egg and heart brackets.
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They aren't stamped with a "VW" sign anywhere? I don't recall ever seeing a Hella or SWF snowflake bracket that wasn't also counter stamped "VW". Probably not a VW part. At first I thought that it may be an adaptor bracket, used to mount snowflakes on earlier fenders (dimpled split fenders?) but there are 2 problems with that; the fender hole spacing and the resulting "too low" position achieved on the fender.
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