What is my car?, Is it a 72 or a 73? |
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What is my car?, Is it a 72 or a 73? |
Gigamight |
Oct 12 2009, 05:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 8-June 09 From: Near Akron, Ohio Member No.: 10,454 Region Association: Middle East |
Ok, I'm not putting pics in this post because the pics I have are mostly in my build thread linked in my sig. However, I don't have pics for this particular question anyways.
My car has a build date of 07/72, so, I logically assume that it is in fact a 73, right? Well, here's the tough part; the shifter linkage is 72 style tail shift. If the PO were going to replace anything, I would think he would upgrade, not downgrade, so I assume it's stock. And the vent lever in the floor is also 72. The rest of the car, (i.e. dash, wiring etc.) as far as I can tell seems to be all the 73 variety. So far the only parts that stands out are the shift stuff and the vent stuff. So what is the car? Is this normal? Plus, how in Hades do you get that section of shift linkage out of the tunnel without removing the tunnel? I'm going to replace it with parts from my 74 which has side shifter parts in good shape. Thanks again in advance guys. |
agentblr |
Oct 13 2009, 09:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 303 Joined: 23-January 04 From: Lee's Summit MO Member No.: 1,595 |
I parted out an early 73 2.0 last year, sn# 4732901302 it had a few of the 72 parts like the early engine lid and raintray,non reinforced doors with beetle style window lifts,and the aircleaner has crisscrossed stiffening ribbes instead of the more common parallel ones.The most odd part was it was fitted with 914/6 rear calipers ! I assume they were bolted on later in life but has anyone else ever seen or heard of this with VW-Porsche clearing out the parts bin on the early 73s ?? Oh and for the purist this car was rusted way beyond hope...think broken in half !
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