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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:41 am    Post subject: Ever see a convertable that looks like this? Reply with quote

I don't think I've ever seen a 1960 convertible with a Ragtop.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like one nice paint job, and that's it.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It shows how much I don't know and how much I have to learn. I didn't know a 1960 Beetle was a semaphore car.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My 1960 Beetle was also a semaphore car. They had been removed and the hole was stuffed with steel wool and then leaded over.

I was able to remove the lead without even damaging the paint around the hole, dig out the steel wool and install a new set of semaphores. All the wiring was there in place and in good shape.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I prefer those cute peanut turn signals on that era Bug.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

drscope wrote:
My 1960 Beetle was also a semaphore car. They had been removed and the hole was stuffed with steel wool and then leaded over.

I was able to remove the lead without even damaging the paint around the hole, dig out the steel wool and install a new set of semaphores. All the wiring was there in place and in good shape.


US spec 60's had the small white turn signals and Euro spec cars had semaphores.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

drscope wrote:
My 1960 Beetle was also a semaphore car. They had been removed and the hole was stuffed with steel wool and then leaded over.

I was able to remove the lead without even damaging the paint around the hole, dig out the steel wool and install a new set of semaphores. All the wiring was there in place and in good shape.


My '60 vert had the semaphores POUNDED into the pockets and filled with bondo. I extracted them and clipped on a 6v lantern battery and one of them light up and opened most of the way up! The other was too corroded, but I could hear the buzz. Back in 1990, these things were selling for about $200 each. Now, if you want a vert semaphore- plan on $1000 each (more than I paid for the whole car).
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my bug is a US spec car....it has specs all over it Shocked Rolling Eyes
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