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passoa55 
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 Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:48 pm Post subject: What is this 1967 switch for? |
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Does anybody know what this switch is doing?
I guess it is a 1967 only thing.
Thanks for your help! 
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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c21darrel
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Paul70Ghia
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| I might be very wrong but I once looked at buying a mid 60s Ghia and it had these door operated flaps which I think were connected to the seat back release lock so the seats unlocked once the doors were opened. This was about 20 years ago so as I say I could be very wrong! |
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jwold
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| Correct 67 seat back release. Part of those safety newfangled features! |
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KGCoupe
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As others have said, the 1967 model year Karmann Ghias had a one year only "safety" feature that locked the front seat backs in the upright position whenever the door was closed.
The "switch" in the door pillar is connected to a locking mechanism in the seat backs via a cable that runs across the floor pans in the arc shaped groove running from the outer front towards the inner center of each floor half.
While the seat back locking mechanism only lasted for one model year, that groove in the floorpan lived on in every VW Thing that was made. |
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passoa55
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply's.
Does someone have a picture of how it is attached to the seat?
Thanks!
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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