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I know that on the back of my clock hopingly that they havent been replaced before or on the spedo they are sometimes dated to. This could be a good identification mark to go by the year also. >From Chris Swafford:www.geocities.com/motorcity/garage/4265/ 537Buckeye 36LSB S.W. Corner of Cinti,Oh In the Hills 71'Beautiful stock Squareback half in primer 73'Squareback (More than solid)Rear end hell! Any Suggestions? 68'Bug w/swingaxle (I hate thoes)Oh well! On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:57:17 -0600 "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> writes: >On 8 Jul 98 at 22:21, type3@vwtype3.org wrote: > >> andy almstrom wrote: >> i have heard vw sometimes stamped >> > the date on certain parts throughout the car. true or false?? is >there >> > any way i can determine what year my car is??? >> >> Someone else can add to this list, but here goes: >> *Back of the clock (other guages?) >> *Under sides of all vinyl paded parts (dash pad, early style arm >rests, >> etc), very hard to read ink. >> *Some of the relays (emergency flasher) >> Short list, drawing a blank tonight... > >The PARTS that are dated have the date that the PART was made. The >only date that I know of that VW put on the cars was the sticker in >the driver's side door jamb of late models that gave the month and >year of production. I'm not sure when this sticker started to >appear, but it may have been around 1970, and even then only for US >cars. Of course other markets could have their own stickers and I >would never have seen one of them. > >Jim >- >******************************* >Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org >Madison, Wisconsin, USA >******************************* > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]