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GregKnod Samba Member
Joined: April 11, 2005 Posts: 376 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 8:35 pm Post subject: Odd Headlight Design? |
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I have a 66 Beetle with what I believe is the correct headlight in the passenger (right side) and the incorrect on the drivers (left hand) side. I'm more curious than anything else about the drivers side headlight.
_________________ '73 Westy Weekender sharing the garage with a '66 Ocean Blue Beetle (daily drivers are out in the weather) |
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GregKnod Samba Member
Joined: April 11, 2005 Posts: 376 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Excuse me, what I failed to mention was the odd item is the location of the parking light. _________________ '73 Westy Weekender sharing the garage with a '66 Ocean Blue Beetle (daily drivers are out in the weather) |
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mrmdls Samba Member
Joined: April 27, 2013 Posts: 410 Location: New Brunswick, Canada
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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I think it's the left front fender bucket assembly that's a repo, where the parking light bulb holder is so close to the headlight. I couldn't find a shot of a 66 beetle headlight assembly, but a link that shows an earlier 54 bug with different headlights from the 60's show what I believe would be the proper location (your right front fender).
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=431475&highlight=parking+light
As a note in the link txvoval wrote the following referring to his 54:
Has two rivets, light bulb for headlight and parking light (just below the headlight bulb, not like the later models that you see in the bottom front) as described by Everett with screw terminal connections _________________ 75 model 110 (Basic Bug) - Project Daily Driver |
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GregKnod Samba Member
Joined: April 11, 2005 Posts: 376 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Why do you think the repo is such a poor copy of what it should be? _________________ '73 Westy Weekender sharing the garage with a '66 Ocean Blue Beetle (daily drivers are out in the weather) |
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mrmdls Samba Member
Joined: April 27, 2013 Posts: 410 Location: New Brunswick, Canada
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'm thinking an earlier bucket assembly was used, or if the bucket assembly was included with the fender, the fender was for an earlier model _________________ 75 model 110 (Basic Bug) - Project Daily Driver |
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