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thom
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 Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:37 am Post subject: What is this number stamped on the seat support? |
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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?
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mandraks
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maximum weight for the driver in kilograms
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thom
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| mandraks wrote: |
| maximum weight for the driver in kilograms |
Crap. I guess I'll need to get rid of this bus then...
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velvetgreen
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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  |
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nlorntson
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| I have a number there on my 57 Deluxe as well. I recall mine is 105 however. |
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thom
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| 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.
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nlorntson
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| 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? |
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Douglas Denlinger
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See if the number matches your sunroof header bow....both of your buses should be early enough to have a 3 piece header how.
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klcarrie
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The kilogram is a measure of mass (an inertial property, independent of gravity), not weight (a measure of susceptibility to gravitational force) 
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nlorntson
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| klcarrie wrote: |
| The kilogram is a measure of mass (an inertial property, independent of gravity), not weight (a measure of susceptibility to gravitational force) |
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? |
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nlorntson
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I thought it was the last 3 digits of the VIN?
Go check that. |
Last three of my VIN are not 105 |
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thom
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| 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"
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70bus
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: What is this number stamped on the seat support? |
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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.
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