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BluegrassMan
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| VOLKSWAGNUT wrote: | YES!! Thats one of the more rare Beetle Convertible decklids. Only fits 1967 year model.( without mods) Even has the right 1967 rain tray.
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Excellent! Thank you. I had never realized that the 67 was so unique until I got this one and started reading about it.
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VOLKSWAGNUT 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| BluegrassMan wrote: | | VOLKSWAGNUT wrote: | YES!! Thats one of the more rare Beetle Convertible decklids. Only fits 1967 year model.( without mods) Even has the right 1967 rain tray.
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Excellent! Thank you. I had never realized that the 67 was so unique until I got this one and started reading about it. |
No problem.
Unique.... and a pain in the A$$ when you want to make it all original, with all the special 67 parts.
Still a nice find.
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BluegrassMan
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| VOLKSWAGNUT wrote: |
No problem.
Unique.... and a pain in the A$$ when you want to make it all original, with all the special 67 parts.
Still a nice find. |
Yeah, I know what you mean. When I bopught this bug there were others to choose from but this one just struck me.
I like a bug to be as close to stock as possible but I am smart enough to know and admit that I will not be restoring this one to complete original perfect condition.
I am thankful that it has a lot of the original stuff but I am too poor to do an all original restore.
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| Bashr52 wrote: | | fred69vert wrote: | Your floor pan and body numbers not matching, well the VW code is,
First two digits is the body style, 11 is a sedan and 15 is a 'vert.
Third digit is model year, 7 is 1967
Remaining digits are the serial number of the car.
So you have a 67 'vert body on a 67 sedan pan. No difference between pans that I know of, all the extra bracing (like the support rails between the wheelwells) are on the body.
A year ago I finished a 2-year project on a 69 'vert (actually ended up a 68 body with everything else from my original 69 as my 69 body was totally shot). Had the poor car in boxes, but I'm enjoying it now. |
Does it have the 'vert pan stiffeners installed?
Engine with the riveted plate on it means it was a factory rebuild at one time. B code lists it as a 1500 single port, which judging by the picture it still is (although it may have had 1600 cylinders put on at some time). |
When I pulled my 69 apart, there were no "stiffeners" on the pan. There were extra panels in the front footwells just forward of the doors, rounded braces in the bottom door corners, extra bracing just aft of the doors, and the support rails that weld onto the bottom of the heater channels. The reason I started the work on the 69 was that some stupid PO had removed those support rails. The only difference I found with the pans is the jack points are removed, since they are incorporated in the support rails.
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VOLKSWAGNUT
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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FYI
Sedan and convertible frames/pans are nearly identical.
The only differences are the lack of the jack pocket on convertibles and the chassis numbers. (Post 1964 build Beetles) Serial numbers begin with 15 for a vert vs 11 for a sedan.
ALL the extra convertible supports are built into the body.
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Your going to need a rear seat since the one back there is for a sedan and won't work. A rear seat from any 65-73 vert will work. Don't think you have to get a rear seat from a '67 vert only. Good luck, I've had two '67 verts.
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BluegrassMan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| EMPIImp69 wrote: | | Your going to need a rear seat since the one back there is for a sedan and won't work. A rear seat from any 65-73 vert will work. Don't think you have to get a rear seat from a '67 vert only. Good luck, I've had two '67 verts. |
Yeah, it is too long. I was actually about to ask someone what seat would fit. Im not sure about that front passenger seat either, it seems too wide. The driver seat is completely gone.
Something I just noticed today was that the front fenders dont match. The passenger side fender has the horn grill a bit further from the hood than the driver side. Funny, once you notice it it sticks out like a sore thumb!
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| 73 KAFER wrote: | Whats up with the lack of a rear window? Kinda looks like a new top, don't they come with a window? Confused.
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I just learned that the top was purchased without a back window. The owner is required to cut and install their own back window and frame into the top. I was told they had paid "almost 500" for the top about a year and a half ago.
Im not sure that cutting a hole in the top would be something I would feel comfortable doing. But I do not have that original back window or frame anyway.
Something else for the future 'to do' list
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