113 VW 1200 deluxe from 1962 - different heating outlets?

pastellgreen

Hello,

I'm thinking of buying a deluxe from May 1962, first delivery in austria. I got several pictures from the current owner, it seems to be a very clean and original car.
From the german models I know, that a steering wheel lock was added since august 1961, but during my research in classified ads, I have seen vehicles from model year 1962 delivered to other (also european) countries, that still have the ignition key placed in the dashboard. I assume, it was a german-only thing, for other countries you had to add the option M 55 or so. So I'm not surprised that the austrian offered has no steering-iginiton-lock.

But:
I also got pictures from the area under the rear seat. And here, I'm very surprised. Normally, I would have thought it to be like that:

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but the setting in the offered car looks like this:

I do not understand it, because with the all known setting from the first picture, VW introduced a very effective heater outlet. Is this factory or dealer installed? Regarding also the quality of work on the boards, it looks to me very professional, when not installed from the factroy, it should be an accessory item? Does anybody have seen this setting anywhere?

VOLKSWAGNUT

Has "1962" heating.. .. so should be correct.

Best 62 heat topic

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445797

63/64 heat topic

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=541030

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pastellgreen

Thank you! But when did they use the round style heater outlets wihtout flaps? Or did they install tem only in german delivered cars?

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pastellgreen

Thank you very much again! The first picture was found in a german book about the changes on the beetle, and was an example picture for the heater outlets starting in august 1961. So the picture is obviously wrong?
But the book also states: hand knob flap controls since 13 december 1962. Is there a possibillity, that in germany we always had only the round outlets, and since the mentioned date with flaps? I'm really confused now... however I have never seen the oblong type here in germany.

edit: found german instruction manuals on internet showing clearly the oblong type in 1961. But the manual from January 1962 shows the round style with control flaps. My confusion is gone by now, but many thanks to you!

I once had a 7/1961 and a 3/1963 and never came in touch wiht the oblong type...