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Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:37 am

I searched - honest!

On my '57 deluxe the number '150' is stamped on top of the driver's bottom side seat support. I don't have my chassis number handy to compare.

What is this number?

Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:39 am

maximum weight for the driver in kilograms

Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:43 am

mandraks wrote: maximum weight for the driver in kilograms

Crap. I guess I'll need to get rid of this bus then...

Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:01 am

VW engineer's were so clever all those years ago that they anticipated the gradual fattening of society 50 years onwards!

150 KG= 330 Pounds :)

Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:44 am

I have a number there on my 57 Deluxe as well. I recall mine is 105 however.

Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:13 am

nlorntson wrote: I have a number there on my 57 Deluxe as well. I recall mine is 105 however.

Yours must have been a Euro delivery.

Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:25 am

thom wrote: nlorntson wrote: I have a number there on my 57 Deluxe as well. I recall mine is 105 however.

Yours must have been a Euro delivery.

Actually, it was delivered to Berlin. :)

So this really is a number for weight?

Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:10 pm

See if the number matches your sunroof header bow....both of your buses should be early enough to have a 3 piece header how.

Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:11 pm

The kilogram is a measure of mass (an inertial property, independent of gravity), not weight (a measure of susceptibility to gravitational force) :wink:

Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:17 pm

klcarrie wrote: The kilogram is a measure of mass (an inertial property, independent of gravity), not weight (a measure of susceptibility to gravitational force) :wink:

My bus floats.

Douglas Denlinger wrote: See if the number matches your sunroof header bow....both of your buses should be early enough to have a 3 piece header how.

Where on the bow do I look?

Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:06 pm

I thought it was the last 3 digits of the VIN?

Go check that.

On another note, if you weigh 150kg and want to drop to a normal, healthy weight, this thread may help you:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335650

Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:26 pm

EverettB wrote: I thought it was the last 3 digits of the VIN?

Go check that.

Last three of my VIN are not 105

Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:33 pm

How about the body #? :)

Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:44 pm

Douglas Denlinger wrote: See if the number matches your sunroof header bow....both of your buses should be early enough to have a 3 piece header how.

Winner winner chicken dinner - I finally got around to taking the sunroof assembly apart. Also, what I thought was a random dent in the top header piece was actually a single digit stamped from the underside. This part is 3 pieces welded together, and the outer 2 pieces are stamped "7" and the middle is stamped "1"

Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:01 pm

Thom, thanks for getting back with data ten years later! I wish more people would have done that over the decades (hint: still time). I am impressed you remembered this thread that long.