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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:43 pm    Post subject: Help to figure out what year and model seats are from.. Reply with quote

I wonder if someone on here can identify the two bucket seats I received and let me know if they are for a Beetle or something else..
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oldest is 1973.

Beyond that........ Hard to tell.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those are 1973.

The extra width of the headrest gives it away.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The headrest is wrong for a '73. Looks like a '74 to me.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

74-76
http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_new/interior/headliner_seats/seat_covers.cfm?type=1

73 are tapered on the sides.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the help..
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