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tswankVWSD
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Joined: February 08, 2021
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Location: SD CA
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 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:34 pm Post subject: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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I have a 1974 181 MX. Missing the Fed Safety Decal on the pillar drivers side. You can see where it was. Cut and scraped out. OG green paint, not painted over. Not sure why it was removed. Giving me a pain to CA regi. Matching VINs. Came from AZ.
Any help appreciated. TSVWSD |
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Dougster43
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Joined: May 11, 2018
Posts: 183
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 8:38 am Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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Dave at Industrial Design works made one for me about 6 months ago and it looks great. Note that the dots will be printed rather than punched out, but otherwise it looks identical to the original.
Contact is
[email protected]
Also here is another thread on this subject...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...ht=sticker |
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tswankVWSD
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Joined: February 08, 2021
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Location: SD CA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 8:59 am Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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| Thanks Dougster43. I will hit up Dave. Appreciated. Tod SD |
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tswankVWSD
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Location: SD CA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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Dougster43 -
Dave got promptly back to me. Question - Do you know where I find the production month of 181?
Appreciated. Tod SD |
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77kafer
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Location: New Windsor, NY
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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Unless you can find and contact a Thing owner with a vin# close to your it might be hard. One thing you can do is look at this list, see where your vin fits and go from there: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/vins_type_181/Page1.jpg
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Al Capulco
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Joined: October 31, 2005
Posts: 532
Location: Northridge, CA.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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| If you think your Thing has never been painted, you should find the date of manufacture behind the passenger headlight. |
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Dougster43
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:25 am Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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| Good suggestions here. My sticker was missing and my car had been painted so I had the same issue. My VIN number was only about 120 units behind the March 1 production on the chart so I assumed a 3/73 date. |
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waxhead
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oscarsnapkin
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Location: Bucks County, PA
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Federal Safety Decal Repro? |
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Does anyone know how to read the VIN numbers as far as the number of units produced? Going by the list in the link, 1973 started off with VIN 183 2000 001 and shows 183 3026 058 being made in September of that year. Obviously there weren’t 1 million Things made, but is there a way to tell how many were made between these two dates? I more or less am curious to know were my own Thing comes in.
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