[T3] Old Type IIIs (cooling)

[Brian Fye]

nah... just remove the screws and graft them into the fenders and no one
will notice.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:54 PM, James Lingenfelter
<jimmyandcher at yahoo.com>wrote:

> LOL! Well, now I know. So most likely, this was a dealer modification done
> when the car was new...... So, I already know my car is less cool because I
> don't have the original fuel injection..... will the purists also look down
> on my car because my louvers are held on with big ugly sheet metal screws??
> LOL.
>
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:
>
>
>> In a message dated 2/23/2011 10:31:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> jimmyandcher at yahoo.com writes:
>>
>> My '68 has louver "inserts" attached with screws to the fender,
>> with  a rubber seal around them. I was told by somebody long ago that
>> these were offered by VW as some sort of "kit" after they changed  the
>> direction of the louvers, supposedly to improve cooling. Anybody  know
>> if there's any truth to that, or was this person smoking a Berg  Pipe?
>>
>>
>>
>> Berg pipe. Actually it was a response by the USA dealers who did this to
>> accomidate customers "who thought" that the louvers should point in the
>> other
>>  direction. Most customers never really knew that VW had been selling
>> these
>> cars  for over 5 years (without any cooling issues) before they "started
>> to
>> have  a problem" according to their owners. So the dealers did this to
>> placate their  customers, that's all. Russ told me he did a few while he
>> was at
>> the dealership,  back in the late 60's.
>>
>> Bob 65 Notch  S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
>> 71 Notch (Krunchy)
>> 64 T-34 Ghia  (Wolfie)
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