[T3] VW Transparent Factory

Jim Adney jadney at vwtype3.org
Wed Mar 30 21:17:16 PDT 2011


I can't explain it either.

On 30 Mar 2011 at 23:11, James Lingenfelter wrote:

>   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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