Re: [T3] 65 Variant Restoration Progresss & Fan Shroud Number Questions

[Scott Taylor <scottbtaylor@earthlink.net>]

<x-flowed>On Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at 07:18  AM, Duane Miller wrote:

> First, thanks you guys for helping me hash this out...just a means of
> focus...my aim is to make sure this 65 is as correct as possible.
> Note: This car has a single side draft carb, no clock...a blank 
> insert, one
> sunvisor, cloth seats, no chrome side body trim (accept for rocker), 
> no hood
> chrome. This was the simple variant...some have called it a 1500
> N...although that designation appears nowhere on the car. Might this 
> code
> indicate that it was a simplified Variant with a 1600 engine?

What you're describing is a standard 1965 1500N. The "N" was VW's 
internal designation for the lower-spec version and wouldn't be seen 
anywhere on the car -- it would have just been badged "1500," or in the 
case of the Square, "Variant." The 1600 engine was introduced for the 
1966 model year so your car couldn't have had one originally, but 
someone may have installed a later engine at some point. What's your 
engine number? That would tell you if the engine came with the car or 
not. Or maybe the fan shroud itself was replaced at some point with one 
from a newer car. After 40 years almost anything's possible.

Scott
62 VW1500 KG

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