Fusebox location ?

[usariemen]

Hi
This is a early july 1949 Body.
Still the small gas tank.

It has the pressing and threats for the later style fusebox.
Like on these pics.

But also two threats as for the earlier style fusebox.
Like on these pics

They are a bit far rear but look as for a fusebox.

So now the question. What style was mounted in the car once?
This is not far from the change to the bigger tank.
Can it be that VW already used the sidepanels with the fusebox pressing
but kept the box on the flat beside the small tank?
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[peter schepens]

Carsten, on Fb, Richard Hausmann is wrinting this:
"My car is build July 30th, 1949, It is the same on mine with the number 1-1137xx and original inner fenders and all lids: small gas tank, but all the other things like grooved bumpers, no license plate embossing, card board glove boxes and new front hood locking etc. It seems, that they changed the gas tank the last."

So it is ok with the pressing. You can close the 2 holes next to the fuel tank
I checked picts on early Hebs. Heb 166 that war restored by Pascal, does have the small tank and the same pressing as Carsten's front clip, later style.
Heb 136, heb 100 does have the pressing also, even hebmuller 46 and heb 006 does have the pressings...

So Carsten, it is ok to have the pressing
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Do not close the holes if they are original.

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[vintage fiberglass]

I have a question on fuse boxes. In the pics you show a 6 fuse box with an aluminum knob on top and one with a brown plastic knob on top. Are these both stock and correct for 1950? two different suppliers for fuse boxes? or is one newer than the other? Tim

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I would leave the side panel holes as found, just grease and screw in a short pan-head screw into each of the threaded inserts, to keep water out.

I've also wondered about the fuse box knobs. I've always thought that the metal knobs ended sometime in the Zwitter era, but have no consistent proof. On a given car though, I doubt there was mix and match of metal and plastic types.

Also on 6 position fuse boxes: The market is flooded with generic metal-knob fuse boxes that are much later reproductions, with pot metal knobs. These are often advertised as for VW but are clearly generic. There are also other fuse boxes that have the correct early metal knobs, and look correct from the outside, except the brass strip connections are different.......these are for other applications, like Volvo. Correct boxes will of course have a small VW emblem stamped inside, and either an "L" part number, or a later part number.
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