Real Creamsicle - questions on originality, keeping it 100% original Options

[Rmvr53]

I've a question for the esteemed panel.
I have a real creamsicle (ok its my daughters) that was sitting too close to the house when it burned down. Most rubber/plastic items melted and I have replaced the lenses etc but I am at a quandry on the rubber nerfs on the front bumper. I am temped to remove them and repaint the bumper and leave them off since the lines of the car are much cleaner without them. As for the rubber top cap I have a fiberglass replica (Carl Rudolph) I'm installing in place of the rubber top.

Thoughts?

Bill F

[Michael N]

Deleted as not CW PC (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ." far from original & does not belong here!"

[Tom_T]

On my wife's bumblebee I went with no tits. I painted some plastic plugs to match then plugged the holes. I have clean bumper tits to install if ever desired but prefer the clean look with out them. Another benefit of not having them installed is no rust between the tits and bumper.

I like tits myself Mike! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
... i just prefer the original look, but what was that old joke about "...as useful as teats on a hog's A**..." !!??

GREAT personalized CA Blue Plates for that Bee too!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
With the Sept renewal sticker- I'm guessing it was first sold 9/73 - an early LE ??

[Michael N]

Deleted as not CW PC. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) " far from original & does not belong here!"

[Tom_T]

GREAT personalized CA Blue Plates for that Bee too!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
With the Sept renewal sticker- I'm guessing it was first sold 9/73 - an early LE ??

Original build in Feb 1974. I know the car was in California in 1976 from a gas receipt in the car from a 76 station in Mt View CA. I don't believe Phillip Wong's credit card # will work any more. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

Mike - is that your L80E next to the wife's Bee? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

If you look on your early CA Reg cards for the car (the heavier paperboard ones with the pinkish or reddish background areas) up to the early 80's or so, the "date first sold" box will give you the first sale date in CA (my current reg cards on our other cards show 00/00/YR without dates but the 914 goes back to 75 when I got it & shows full dates up to 80's).

If you don't have them, but it's still registered in CA (looks to me it is if those are still its plates), then you can go online to the CA DMV website & look for their pdf Information Request Form & request copies of their reg. records - perhaps back to 74. AAA may be able to get as much as they have on the computer database, but only the info request will get into microfilm records - if any are still available.

With a 2/74 build date on the VIN sticker - it could have either:
1.) been first sold new in Spring 74 with a standard blue plate & then upgraded to the personalized blue plates that are on there now at a later date & the Sept renewal reassigned per that date, or
2.) sold new outside of CA & then brought in later for those plates in 9/74 up to any Sept. before the switch to white plates in 84+/- , or
3.) it could've sat on a dealers lot until Sept. 74.

Does the chassis no. on the Karmann plate track when deciphered for week-month-day? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)