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>Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:32:43 >To: king-of-battle@worldnet.att.net >From: Street Bugs <strtbug@ibm.net> >Subject: Re: hood/decklid seal > >hi charles the seals are the same front and rear for the type 3. reason is the front hood seal and the rear hatch for all 3 type 3s is not available. so everyone is selling a protuded rubber seal with no corners. you just much it around the corners. in my opinion it sucks. but for the tooling of the seal to make the correct turns and stuff is huge cash and the demand for a t-3 hood seal is not that great. i spent 75.00 for my nos seal and i searched for 8 months. they can be found for a price. you just have to bite the bullet when it comes by you and not complain about the price. i talked to a guy that said he needed a part for his auto stick bug. he searched for 3 years and found it for 50.00. he said thats to much and passed the part up. i told him he was lucky to find it period just pay the man and stop waisting time. this was 2 years ago and hes still looking. more time than brains. if you can hold out for the correct hood and hatch seal then yes hold out the others suck but there cheap. good luck >btw the going rate for a rear hatch seal is around the 125.00 mark and the hood is around the 100.00 mark that is if you can find it nos. c-ya Jonce > > > >At 10:31 AM 11/28/97 -0800, you wrote: >>I oredered hood and decklid seals for my '69 fastback and when they came >>in they told me they were the same even though WCM lists two different >>seals. They gave me two hood seals. I'd have to cut it to fit because >>its obviously longer than a decklid seal. Has anyone heard of this? >>Will there be a problem using the hood seal cut to fit the decklid? Do >>they seat the same and have the same type channels? >> >>charles >>'69 fastback >> >> >> > Jonce Fancher 56 singlecab 66 sunroof bug very nice for sale 66 variant square back 71 sunroof bus 92 jetta gl winter car 94 ford probe GT (wifes car)