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CaLiBus Samba Member
Joined: May 27, 2011 Posts: 1097
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:34 am Post subject: Early headlight Bucket |
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Thought I ask the pros here. What year did this beast come out of?
And yes I did the search and came up empty..
Transitional year?
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CaLiBus Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:37 am Post subject: |
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You can faintly see an arrow at edge of ring.
Here are the numbers.
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AlanInMass54 Samba Member
Joined: August 29, 2003 Posts: 1065 Location: Massachusetts
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:16 am Post subject: |
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I can say that all three of my 54's had that style. Two 54 Bugs and 1 54 barndoor Bus. All three had those funky bracket style lights and rectangular parking light holder. |
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CaLiBus Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:35 am Post subject: |
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AlanInMass54 wrote: |
I can say that all three of my 54's had that style. Two 54 Bugs and 1 54 barndoor Bus. All three had those funky bracket style lights and rectangular parking light holder. |
Cool to know you had them on your Barndoor! .. I was thinking it was only a bug thing..
Did your Barndoor have the small arrow? |
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AlanInMass54 Samba Member
Joined: August 29, 2003 Posts: 1065 Location: Massachusetts
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:49 am Post subject: |
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I honestly don't remember about the arrow. Definately that style headlight though. |
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RareAir Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 14576 Location: 18 miles North of the border
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CaLiBus Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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RareAir wrote: |
Late 1953 - early 1955 destined for the US market. Those buckets are the ones that had the "vestigal" lens. Is it 4-sale? |
Send me a PM. |
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janerick3 Samba Member
Joined: June 04, 2006 Posts: 1879 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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The bucket is date-stamped "M1118," which translates to November 1954.
If the date stamp has 3 or 4 digits, it always ends in "18," which makes me wonder is the "18" reflects the U.S./Canada-specific M018 option (the BCs always cite the Swedish-market version of the M018 option). _________________ Thanks,
Jan K. |
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CaLiBus Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:09 am Post subject: |
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janerick3 wrote: |
The bucket is date-stamped "M1118," which translates to November 1954.
If the date stamp has 3 or 4 digits, it always ends in "18," which makes me wonder is the "18" reflects the U.S./Canada-specific M018 option (the BCs always cite the Swedish-market version of the M018 option). |
Sweet! Thanks for all this great information guys!.. |
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sonoma_vw Samba Member
Joined: May 19, 2013 Posts: 464 Location: Sonoma County
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: Early headlight Bucket |
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Surprising to for me to find that '54s had the parking light on the bottom. Guessing those were strictly for US bound exports.
I've seen one instance of that parking light style (bottom of can) but with the pre-focused/ unsealed headlights with reflectors. Does anyone know what models those would have been? (I have a Euro '60 and would like to have the parking light with the non-sealed euro headlights, I just don't know for what models and years those would have been used.) |
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