Correct seats
- IFBwax
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Correct seats
Please answer me a question.
Which were the correct seats on a 1976 Convertible bug?
The all in one seats with the headrest built into the frame?
Or the two piece ones that are adjustable?
When did they change?
Thanks!!!
Wayne
Which were the correct seats on a 1976 Convertible bug?
The all in one seats with the headrest built into the frame?
Or the two piece ones that are adjustable?
When did they change?
Thanks!!!
Wayne
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- hambone
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Re: Correct seats
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- IFBwax
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Re: Correct seats
Great.. brochures on there show both kinds.
The best navigators aren't sure where they're going until they get there. And then they're still not sure.
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- SlowLane
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Re: Correct seats
So use one of each. Ya got two seats...
'81 Canadian Westfalia (2.0L, manual), now Californiated
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"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
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- dtrumbo
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Re: Correct seats
This is by no means a definitive answer but scroll down to the bottom of this page:
http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_ ... covers.cfm
It indicates that '77 was the start of the two-piece headrest.
http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_ ... covers.cfm
It indicates that '77 was the start of the two-piece headrest.
- Dick
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
- Amskeptic
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Re: Correct seats
IFBwax wrote:Great.. brochures on there show both kinds.
Look deeper, IFBwax. The brochure makers were famous for shortcuts. The 1971 bus brochure was actually a gussied-up 1970 bus in the pictures even as they crooned about the new disk brakes and ventilated drop-disk wheels! They must have thought we were idiots.
The new headrests came in 1977. The 1977 year after the 1976 year brochures show the exact same (earlier) bug at the bank drive-through, though with a "photoshopped" color change. Pathetic. But read the print:
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- dtrumbo
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Re: Correct seats
Wha???VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
- Dick
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
- sped372
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Re: Correct seats
Transaxle, not engine.dtrumbo wrote:Wha???VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
1971 Karmann Ghia - 1600 DP
1984 Westfalia - 1.9 WBX
1984 Westfalia - 1.9 WBX
- Amskeptic
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Re: Correct seats
You're right, but definitely imprecise ad copy!sped372 wrote:Transaxle, not engine.dtrumbo wrote:Wha???VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Colin
(you noted the incorrect headrests in the bug in the ad touting the new headrests?)
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- sped372
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Re: Correct seats
Wonder if it was intentional or not, I had to read it twice myself.
1971 Karmann Ghia - 1600 DP
1984 Westfalia - 1.9 WBX
1984 Westfalia - 1.9 WBX
- IFBwax
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Re: Correct seats
Nice Colin!!!! Yep... words and pics don't match. Not good for a National ad from a major corporation. So anyways, (and I like saying "anyways" because a cute girlfriend of mine always said that) that means my seats are correct!!! Woot!!! On to more fun.
The best navigators aren't sure where they're going until they get there. And then they're still not sure.
Frank Bama
http://www.partypickle.blogspot.com
Frank Bama
http://www.partypickle.blogspot.com
- Amskeptic
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Re: Correct seats
That corporate culture at VWoA was so skanky, so utterly clueless, so arrogant! so small-minded, that they were scraping the scum off the rim of the toilet bowl by 1976, then it got worse. The best-selling imported car in 1970 was almost out of the market by 1990.IFBwax wrote:Nice Colin!!!! Yep... words and pics don't match. Not good for a National ad from a major corporation. So anyways, (and I like saying "anyways" because a cute girlfriend of mine always said that) that means my seats are correct!!! Woot!!! On to more fun.
Anyways, don't get me started on corporate skank and cluelessness and arrogance and small-mindedness . . . .
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles