What is This?, Testing the collective wisdom... Options

[Eric_Shea]

I found this in my center tunnel a while back.

I could be wrong but, there's a couple of things that make me think this could be a factory "tool" (for lack of better word). It has multiple layers of Saturn/Chrome Yellow paint on it. Seems like it might have been used for pulling the tub from one area of the shop to another on a dolly. I can't find any body mounts that would line up though... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Has anyone ever seen one of these?

[Tom_T]

Here's another B&W of the main Karmann line with semi-complete cars on floor track dollies (possibly in the same yellow in parts) -



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What say the rest of you?
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[SirAndy]

What say the rest of you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

I say, if it was found in the center tunnel it was either left there early on during the welding process, in which case it was part of the spot welding line or it got there later during final assembly, in which case it was used somewhere around the interior of the car or was left there while someone had access to the interior.

In the first assembly-line pic above, there's no way someone would crawl up onto a hanging 914 and accidentally slip a tool inside the center tunnel.

So, my guess is either very early in the process during welding or fairly late in the process during final assembly.
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