Oh shit handle

AZbug1979 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:21 am Post subject: Oh shit handle

My bug is missing the holes for my oh shit bar above the glove box. Does this mean someone covered it? Don't all bugs have? And do people drill holes to install?

Beeble1 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:32 am Post subject:

What year is your bug?
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AZbug1979 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:38 am Post subject:

gt1953 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:45 am Post subject:

Remove glove box and look for the two holes. Just poke them thru and mount the grab handle.
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8287111 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 12:07 pm Post subject:

72 is last year with dashboard fitted grabhandle.

AZbug1979 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 12:10 pm Post subject:

Can I install one?

mikeonthebike · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 12:10 pm Post subject:

Even standard bugs?

Joel · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 2:45 pm Post subject:

Yep, they are on the roof turret of 73 and later bugs, standard, super and convertible
Probably a new 1973 regulation somewhere they were in the head contact zone during an accident and needed moving.
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gt1953 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 4:33 pm Post subject:

My 73 has one. It does not have the one above the door, wish it did.
Some it of is when is was built, it also has some other 72 items on it.
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Numbers Matching VW's are getting harder to find. Source out the most Stock vehicle and keep that way. You will be glad you did.

72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold})

AZbug1979 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 4:56 pm Post subject:

Has anyone ever installed one?

gt1953 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:33 pm Post subject:

Look and see if the holes are there in the steel body. It appears you have a standard and I bet the two holes are there.
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Volkswagen: We tune what we drive.
Numbers Matching VW's are getting harder to find. Source out the most Stock vehicle and keep that way. You will be glad you did.

72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold})

Joel · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:50 pm Post subject:

AZbug1979 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:48 pm Post subject:

I like the way it looks so I am going to drill .

junior67 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:28 pm Post subject:

the 1974 bug i just bought has a grab handle installed above the glove box. i thought all bugs had this installed at factory.

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Joel · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:10 am Post subject:

Thats a 68 not a 74.
well the body is, might be sitting on a 74 floor pan.
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junior67 · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 11:02 am Post subject:

Joel · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 8:04 pm Post subject:

Chances are it started life as a 74 bug and someone has just put a 68 body on most likely due to accident damage or rust as its easier to just drop on another body than repair a badly damaged/rusted one.

The chassis number on the backseat will tell you if it hasnt been messed with.

Beetles identities go with the pan not the body so its still classed as a 74 even with a 68 body.
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ashman40 · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 8:38 pm Post subject:

To confirm what Joel has said... from the '72 and '73 owner's manuals:
This is the '72:

This is from the Aug '72 ('73 model year manual):

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