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drscope Samba Member
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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. _________________ Mother Nature is a Mean Evil Bitch! |
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Mike Fisher Samba Member
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I think I prefer those cute peanut turn signals on that era Bug. _________________ https://imgur.com/user/FisherSquareback/posts
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turkis-deluxe Samba Security
Joined: January 06, 2001 Posts: 1545 Location: 94518
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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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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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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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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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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mark tucker Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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my bug is a US spec car....it has specs all over it |
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