[T3] Old Type IIIs (cooling)
James Lingenfelter
jimmyandcher at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 23 22:01:50 PST 2011
Oh, now THAT sounds like an easy project for tomorrow morning!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Brian Fye wrote:
> 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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