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Correct seats
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:20 pm
by IFBwax
Please answer me a question.
Which were the correct seats on a 1976 Convertible bug?
The all in one seats with the headrest built into the frame?
Or the two piece ones that are adjustable?
When did they change?
Thanks!!!
Wayne
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:32 pm
by hambone
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:43 pm
by IFBwax
Great.. brochures on there show both kinds.
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:05 pm
by SlowLane
So use one of each. Ya got two seats...
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:40 am
by dtrumbo
This is by no means a definitive answer but scroll down to the bottom of this page:
http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/wolfsburg_ ... covers.cfm
It indicates that '77 was the start of the two-piece headrest.
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:11 am
by Amskeptic
IFBwax wrote:Great.. brochures on there show both kinds.
Look deeper, IFBwax. The brochure makers were famous for shortcuts. The 1971 bus brochure was actually a gussied-up 1970 bus in the pictures even as they crooned about the new disk brakes and ventilated drop-disk wheels! They must have thought we were idiots.
The new headrests came in 1977. The 1977 year after the 1976 year brochures show the exact same (earlier) bug at the bank drive-through, though with a "photoshopped" color change. Pathetic. But
read the print:
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:19 am
by dtrumbo
VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Wha???
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:31 am
by sped372
dtrumbo wrote:VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Wha???
Transaxle, not engine.
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:35 am
by Amskeptic
sped372 wrote:dtrumbo wrote:VWoA wrote:...Beetles now feature a permanent oil filling that, incredibly enough, requires no routine oil changes.
Wha???
Transaxle, not engine.
You're right, but definitely imprecise ad copy!
Colin
(you noted the incorrect headrests in the bug in the ad touting the new headrests?)
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:37 am
by sped372
Wonder if it was intentional or not, I had to read it twice myself.
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:19 am
by IFBwax
Nice Colin!!!! Yep... words and pics don't match. Not good for a National ad from a major corporation. So anyways, (and I like saying "anyways" because a cute girlfriend of mine always said that) that means my seats are correct!!! Woot!!! On to more fun.
Re: Correct seats
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:50 pm
by Amskeptic
IFBwax wrote:Nice Colin!!!! Yep... words and pics don't match. Not good for a National ad from a major corporation. So anyways, (and I like saying "anyways" because a cute girlfriend of mine always said that) that means my seats are correct!!! Woot!!! On to more fun.
That corporate culture at VWoA was so skanky, so utterly clueless, so arrogant! so small-minded, that they were scraping the scum off the rim of the toilet bowl by 1976, then it got worse. The best-selling imported car in 1970 was almost out of the market by 1990.
Anyways, don't get me started on corporate skank and cluelessness and arrogance and small-mindedness . . . .
