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SkrapMetal
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 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: Lightning Bug emblem... Rare? |
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Hi all, I just purchased this script and was hoping someone could help me date this or tell me if it was a dealer option or if it came on some kind of special edition beetle. I could not find anything on it on sebeetles.com. Thanks
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HermanSwanson
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject: Re: Lightning Bug emblem... Rare? |
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Hi all, I just purchased this script and was hoping someone could help me date this or tell me if it was a dealer option or if it came on some kind of special edition beetle. I could not find anything on it on sebeetles.com. Thanks
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I've seen one of those before... once. So maybe it is pretty rare? |
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SkrapMetal
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone? Help?
I'm an emblem nut and I can't figure this one out 
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jensend
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| This is by no means an answer, just some conjecture. In the late 60s-early 70s one of the big East Coast VW Performance companies was an outfit called Motion Minicar. They did their advertising with a race car called the Thunder Bug. Wondering if they ever came up with a lightning bolt emblem for one of their production kits? If I have time, I'll root through the two old catalogs of theirs I have and see if there's anything in them. |
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snotchback
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SkrapMetal
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks a bunch!!
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surferdudedav
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| I just picked one of these up this weekend! These are too cool! I've got the glitter bug dealer book w all the color samples and ect I'll have to sore If I see any additional info on the lighting bug emblem. |
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mountain bug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Lightning Bug emblem... Rare? |
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| I believe that the Lightning Bug Script was a Dealer Accessory, perhaps exclusive with the Volkswagen Atlantic Distributorship for Pennsylvania and Delaware. I remember having these in stock when I was a VW Dealer Parts Manager in Pennsylvania. I'd guess that they were from 1970. I had a NOS one from back then and picked up another at a swap meet at Lehigh Valley VW in Allentown, Pa. probably mid-70s. |
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