[T3] VW Transparent Factory

James Lingenfelter jimmyandcher at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 30 23:11:57 PDT 2011


  Well, it definitely had the finger indention, and it was definitely  
a '73. I have no explanation for this oddity, but there is no doubt  
about it. Drove it for 15 years and probably put gas in it about  
1,000 times. Just sold it a few months ago.

On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Jim Adney wrote:

> On 30 Mar 2011 at 19:16, James Lingenfelter wrote:
>
>> My '73 beetle gas flap was finger operated.
>
> I don't think so. At least it didn't come from the factory that way.
> From '69-on, there was an inside release.
>
> On many cars, the lock and release was broken and the release was
> done by hand from the outside, but only on '68 cars was there a
> depression to admit a thumb or finger to facilitate this.
>
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