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That looks like a Walker... they were made in Germany. Only the very last of the Walkers were galvenized... perhaps you got one that was on the shelf for a while. Ive only ever seen mine that was galvo. The Galvo ones were painted Silver instead of primer grey. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Lindgren" <lindgre@online.no> To: "Type 3 List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [T3] NOS mufflers > > > Keith Park wrote: > > >I was going to suggest that... the very last of the Walkers made, around > >1990, were GALVINIZED... and last MUCH longer :-) > > > My muffler certainly doesnt look galvanized. Maybe a difference between > US and Euro market? Or maybe mine isnt a Walker after all? As I > mentioned in the reply to Jim's mail there are no definite stamping on > it, just a "MADE IN W GERMANY" stamping on the heat shield. > > Here is my obligatory muffler pictures, as you can see it is the same > type as the one Everett posted earlier. No, the tail pipe is not > original, it is just a generic 2" 90¼ bend for weld-it-yourself systems. > Looks a bit darker :-) > > Muffler seen from the top. The bracket for the tail pipe broke of, > that's why I jerry rigged it. > http://perlindgren.tripod.com/muffler1.jpg > > Here you can (hopefully) see the stamping > http://perlindgren.tripod.com/muffler2.jpg > > Bottom side of muffler, there is rust in the outer corners, with a hole > on the left side. > http://perlindgren.tripod.com/muffler3.jpg > > And with the mentioned of galvanized, other Walker mufflers I've > experienced arent galvanized either. They usually rust from the inside > out. It looks like they are only covered with zink (sp?) paint. > > PerL > 73 Variant L > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > >