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Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:30 pm

Gedore VW tool kit- with roll bag. I have seen a few of the boxed kits but never another like this.

Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:07 pm

Thats pretty cool. Never seen that as well. I lucked out a couple years back on a mid 70's

Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:37 am

Stahlwille! beautiful tools- probably the prettiest of all the german tools without any loss of function/useability.
I have a few including their front wheel bearing wrenches (spanners to us).

Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:15 pm

I’ve had this sweet benrus clock for awhile now although it’s not Super rare I’ve decided to use it in my 54 rag and it works like new.

Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:27 pm

ozinbc wrote: Gedore VW tool kit- with roll bag. I have seen a few of the boxed kits but never another like this.

Does the catalog show a list of what tools are included in the kit? Or could you list what's in it? I've not seen it before.

Tue Nov 02, 2021 9:55 am

This is on a Split Window on display at the Shiftung VW museum. I have never seen one with this mounting method. It has a U shaped wire with threads on the end that fits around the hinge. It is very simple and requires no modifications to the hinge.

Any ideas who made these and what era?

Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:23 pm

Here is an original Volkswagen of America accessory…the elusive Car Care Kit that was sold in the early 1960’s. This one found in an antique mall in Oklahoma City a number of years ago. It was complete except for the polishing cloth and the touch up paint. Many of the contents were never used. Took me a few years to find someone willing to sell a bottle of the correct vintage/type of touch up paint. Still looking for an original polishing cloth – the one currently in the kit came from an auto parts store. Enjoy.

Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:33 pm

That's 😎 cool. Never seen one. Thanks for sharing 👍

Sat Dec 11, 2021 5:54 pm

Wow, that is a really nice one!

Here's a thread about them too:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=612274

Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:41 am

For a long time I have this set of small ceramic bowls in my collection. Now I have found an article about it in a magazine for advertising and graphics from 1956. According to this, they are probably small ashtrays that could be ordered as promotional gifts from the VW advertising department. They were designed by Hans Gebauhr, who also designed some of the beautiful VW posters from the same time.

Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:10 pm

I bought a later 70's Westfalia shop clock awhile back that was complete and in very good shape. I recently pulled out the old clock work and put in a modern quartz movement.

Looks nice and now hold the time perfectly.

Fri Feb 11, 2022 9:22 am

That clock is sweet Notchboy! Perfect wall accessory for any Westy perv

Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:37 am

Thanks to my brotha Martin aka “Allwagons” he shot me the link when this super rare UNI-VENT shifter knob came up cuz he knew that his brotha resto would want it. Thanks brotha

Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:12 pm

I just bought this split beetle fuel gauge. I love it, but I was told it may be for 1949 and earlier cars because it matches thier speedometers better.
Does anyone know if there is a set like this for 1950-'52 cars?

Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:52 pm

vw356 wrote: I just bought this split beetle fuel gauge. I love it, but I was told it may be for 1949 and earlier cars because it matches thier speedometers better.
Does anyone know if there is a set like this for 1950-'52 cars?

Firstly, Love it, never seen one before.
Did pre '50 cars have the aluminium surround for the glovebox?

Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:34 pm

I do not know when the deluxe beetles were first produced. I just looked though and 1949 beetles that I looked at pictures of do have the same speedometer. Deluxe '49's have the trims.
I looked at the box and there is no date, then looked at the paperwork and it is dated 1953 at the bottom and then it shows the fuel gauge (only) mounted in a zwitter/oval dash and states this change for October 1952.

This is the only one I have ever seen too, and I'm thinking these were only offered like this because of what the instructions show. I do wish this face matched the '49-'52 speedometer face though. This does match more to the earlier style speedometer face.
I still really like it though!

Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:45 pm

Here is a bus Dehne gas gauge. Directions show how to install this in a barndoor gas tank only, but I do not know if it could be used in a later bus or not.

Wed May 01, 2024 2:23 pm

Hello everybody, I hope you are doing well.

Today I got this gift:

I didn’t find another entry on the site. Only tachographe pictures seemed close.

It is intended for checking the shock absorbers.
It fixes with to screws, where? I don’t know.
I don’t have the paper disk, I didn’t study how does it work, but it is a very, very beautiful (and heavy) object.

If there is a better category for this vibrographe, feel free to move my post.
Thank you!
No, it is not for sale.

Wed May 01, 2024 5:29 pm

Pau wrote:
Today I got this gift:

Maybe a self winding clock?

Wed May 01, 2024 6:39 pm

jack1448 wrote: Pau wrote:
Today I got this gift:

Maybe a self winding clock?

How do you test shocks with a clock?