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Beacon
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:24 am    Post subject: Weird accessory Reply with quote
Just bought a ‘66 bug that came with an odd footwell vent system that uses plastic piping to lead air from the small front fender-grills to the cabin.

It looks to be made for the car, and not something hacked together by a previous owner.

Has anyone ever seen this before? Could it be a real VW accessory? Or one of those oddities from an old J C Whitney catalog


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:29 am    Post subject: Re: Weird accessory Reply with quote
its part of a aftermarket crotch cooler kit , someone posted one in the classifieds the last day or two , i forget its actual name .

uni vent https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2748772
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:53 am    Post subject: Re: Weird accessory Reply with quote
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8805443
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/bug_univent.php
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=609769
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 7:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Weird accessory Reply with quote
If you're wiling to share, post up how they rigged the vent up front!

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:02 am    Post subject: Re: Weird accessory Reply with quote
my3bugs wrote:
its part of a aftermarket crotch cooler kit , someone posted one in the classifieds the last day or two , i forget its actual name .

uni vent https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2748772


$300 for this? LOL.
Amazon sells a set of four round vents with deflectors for less than $20. A length of flex hose and couplings would be less than $30.
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