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cdennisg
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While searching through the brochures looking for info on paint colors, I noticed something odd in the engine compartment pics in a couple of 68 bus brochures.
Look to the left and just below the distributor vacuum can in this pic. Blow it up for a better view.
Also in this brochure, in the pic of the engine, you can see what appears to be the same thing, but more blurry.
Any ideas what that is? Maybe a sending unit for an oil pressure gauge or something? Some sort of pre-production smog stuff? If it were only on one bus in one photo, I would think maybe it was a typical VW brochure paintbrush error or something. But it looks to be two completely different buses with the same device(s).
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Hmmm...., the distributor looks odd and the vacuum can excessively large as well, maybe some cut and pasting gone wrong?
I can't think of anything down there that would look like that 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:37 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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Kinda... sorta... looks like this alleged 1967 Ghia engine...
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:17 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:20 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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Rare electric Supercharger option.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:19 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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Something else I notice about this pic - this new bus lists to port just like my 50 year old truck 😜
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:16 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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oil filter
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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It does look like a black spin on filter on top of a small pedestal, but what's the roundish thing peeking out below it?. Too small for an A/C compressor and no extra belts visible, hmmm.....
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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| busdaddy wrote: |
Hmmm...., the distributor looks odd and the vacuum can excessively large as well, maybe some cut and pasting gone wrong?
I can't think of anything down there that would look like that |
That looks to be a classic vacuum only distributor that is merely catching the light handsomely. The other thingamabob? Who knows?
I looked in the 1968 Owner's Manual and saw nothing that corresponds. Then I noted that all the black painted pieces look bleached out whitish. 1968's version of "lightness" to help you see where components are?
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No smog pumps in 1968. We were still debating if cars caused smog.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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| No smog pumps in 1968. We were still debating if cars caused smog. |
And if cigarettes cause cancer...
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:39 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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I think smog pumps were started in the early 60s but not on Bays until the Type 4 engine
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:14 am Post subject: Re: 1968 brochure pics oddity |
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In the red engine compartment, the thing to the left looks like it may be a gauge sending unit. It appears to be a can with two terminals on top.
In the white photo you can better see the chrome/silver item below the distributor. It looks like some sort of vacuum diaphragm to me.
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