last year of metal dash?
Chris Nohr
WBerckman
Chris wrote:
>Subject: last year of metal dash?
>From: cn...@islandnet.com (Chris Nohr)
>Date: Thu, Feb 26, 1998 17:48 EST
>Message-id: <1998022614...@i2-42.islandnet.com>
>
>what year was the last metal dash?
>
>-Chris
Chris On U.S. beetles it was 1967.
Bill Berckman
67 Beetle
nospam Rob Boardman
In article <1998022614...@i2-42.islandnet.com>, cn...@islandnet.com
says...
>
>what year was the last metal dash?
>
>-Chris
>
>cn...@islandnet.com
>http://www.islandnet.com/~cnohr/
WBeckerman says 67 for US cars.
My 70 (Australian/European spec) has the metal dash,
and the other day I saw a 73 1300 (yes 1300 - Aussie
spec remember) with a metal dash.
Any advance on 73 anyone?
--
Rob
R(dot)Boardman(at)bom(dot)gov(dot)au
(1970 1500 beetle, one owner, 239,000 miles on it's original engine)
Winskool
Lot of people don't realize that under that 68 up rubber pad is a metal dash,
and I haev seen plenty of people who have removed their dash pad and left the
metal exposed.
Jan Andersson
nospam Rob Boardman wrote:
>
> In article <1998022614...@i2-42.islandnet.com>, cn...@islandnet.com
> says...
> >
> >what year was the last metal dash?
> >
> >-Chris
> >
> >--
> >cn...@islandnet.com
> >http://www.islandnet.com/~cnohr/
>
> WBeckerman says 67 for US cars.
>
> My 70 (Australian/European spec) has the metal dash,
> and the other day I saw a 73 1300 (yes 1300 - Aussie
> spec remember) with a metal dash.
>
> Any advance on 73 anyone?
My -74 1300 had a metal dash. All european std (as in not super) had
metal dashes. (I think). The -70 1500 beetle had a padded dash, I owned
one of those too (it was my first beetle).
I have rarely seen padded dashes on any other beetles than supers.
You could install the padded dash afterwards, but you need the taller
dash knobs to go with it. (My 1500 was factory fitted with all the
correct knobs).
Jan
Jan Andersson
nospam Rob Boardman wrote:
> Any advance on 73 anyone?
Oh yea, and the -88 bug I worked on last summer had a metal dash.
jan
CBrackinjr
what are you describing when you talk about a metal dash? i have a 73 that has
a dash that has padding around a (metal?) dash.
cbrackinjr
73 standard waiting in backyard for restoration.
nospam Rob Boardman
In article <19980301205...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, cbrac...@aol.com
says...
We are talking about the dash being exposed (painted) metal,
as oppposed to the plastic dash which (naturally) attaches to
the metal behind.
The US got the plastic dash before Europe and Australia. We
(in Aus) have 73s (and maybe even later) with the old style plain
metal dash.
Jan Andersson
CBrackinjr wrote:
>
> what are you describing when you talk about a metal dash? i have a 73 that has
> a dash that has padding around a (metal?) dash.
> cbrackinjr
>
> 73 standard waiting in backyard for restoration.
My definition of metal dash: NO padding anywhere. Everything just plain
metal.
The padded dash I had on my 1500 had the normal metal inserts on both
sides of the speedo, and the glovebox cover was the normal metal one,
with the car's own color.
The only other type of padding I know of is the one they used on Curved
widshield Supers. Totally different.
Jan
Iron Hunter
My 69 has a factory padded dash.
Ray
Jan Andersson <jan.an...@tele.fi> wrote in article
<34F960AD...@tele.fi>...
> nospam Rob Boardman wrote:
> >
> > In article <1998022614...@i2-42.islandnet.com>,
cn...@islandnet.com
> > says...
> > >
> > >what year was the last metal dash?
> > >
> > >-Chris
> > >
> > >--
> > >cn...@islandnet.com
> > >http://www.islandnet.com/~cnohr/
> >
> > WBeckerman says 67 for US cars.
> >
> > My 70 (Australian/European spec) has the metal dash,
> > and the other day I saw a 73 1300 (yes 1300 - Aussie
> > spec remember) with a metal dash.
> >
> > Any advance on 73 anyone?
>
BrianL5384
Is there a problem with removing the padding and leaving the metal it?
Earle Horton
BrianL5384 wrote:
>
> Is there a problem with removing the padding and leaving the metal it?
I did this on a '77 standard bug, filled in the holes with sheet metal
and body filler, and painted the dash the same color as the rest of the
body. I also smoothed over the ash tray opening, speaker grille, and
the other little grille to the right of the speedometer.
Earle Horton
Redmond, WA