[T3] VW Transparent Factory

[James Lingenfelter]

   OK, I did some research on this, and I'm NOT crazy. Got on the  
Samba, and from looking at pics of beetles, the gas flaps were  
released from inside thru '72, then went back to the finger indention  
from '73 right thru the '79 convertibles.


On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Jim Adney wrote:

> 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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