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bnam
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Joined: July 02, 2006
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Location: El Dorado Hills CA/ Bangalore, India
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 Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:56 am Post subject: Early bumper bracket cover ID |
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I am missing 2 covers for my bumper brackets for my 65. I think I have the rears.
Ideally, I'd like to get a good, used, front ones as I'm not confident on the quality of the fit of repros. However, I don't know how to visually identify the correct ones. I've read that there was a difference in the 70-71 vs prior covers.
I found these pics that show 70-71 on left and earlier on right (both rear).
I've not found a similar pics of the front ones. Can someone help with this?
The ones I have.
I believe I had bought a set of 4 but cannot find the other two. I didn't pay attention to the differences when i bought the set at Kelley Park - back in 2018 or 19. So need to look for a pair as well as 4 of the spacer plates.
Byas
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1971 1302LS Convertible (RHD) owned since '74
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1965 Karmann Ghia Coupe - under restoration
1966 Fiat 1500 Cabrio (with 1600 Twin cam)
1952 Citroen TA 11BL |
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Rome
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Joined: June 02, 2004
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Location: Pearl River, NY
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Early bumper bracket cover ID |
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Have you seen these currently in the tS classifieds?
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2380227
They have the oval holes for the tall overrider style's support bars which were standard equipment for the US market. But since you're probably looking at the Euro-style ones, you could have small oval sheetmetal patches made, weld them in and smooth over, then paint them body color.
The factory-original front bracket covers on my US-spec '64 Ghia are fastened with TWO threaded holes. |
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