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At 12:04 AM +0100 8/21/98, Dave Hall wrote:
>...They gave me the clue about the body
>plate numbers being able to date the car; 2 of the scrap ones and my
>Variant (Squareback) were made on successive days in the same week
>18; days 1, 2 and 3! That checked with the Fastback's body plate,
>whose production week and month I had discovered from a piece of
>paper under the carpet. (see www.hallvw.clara.net/dating.htm if
>this doesn't make much sense!)
Dave,
I'm replying via the list so that we might get more feedback.
I visited the dating page you mention above, and was shocked to see
the picture of the "production plate." Never seen one of those before! I
grabbed a flashlight and popped open the front trunks of my '69 & my '71.
No production plates. A chassis plate, yes, just like the one on
your Web page, located on the same piece of body metal as the hood latch
mechanism, but no production plate on either car. On the right hand side
(front is front) of the car, in the spare tire well up against the inner
fender area, is a sticker on each car indicating the color and paint code:
"togaweiss L 90 C" and "shantunggelb X XX X," and underneath this silver
sticker is a little piece of paper that appears to be an inspection
sticker. It says "Pruefer" ("inspector" in German, I believe) and "Dat."
(abbreviation for date?). On the '69 I can read "Schwartz" filled in
(rubber stamp?) for the inspector, but the date line is either empty or
(more likely) faded or washed away. Can't read anything on the weathered
'71.
On the spare tire/gas tank dividing wall I found a numeral "2"
stamped on the '69 on the right side (front is front), stamped from the
spare tire side. Strangely, on the '71, there's also a numeral "2" -- but
on the opposite side of the car and stamped from the opposite side of the
plate!
Could the production plate be a U.K. thing? Who else has a chassis
plate? They seem to be ubiquitous on the cars that Dave's seen; I've never
seen one here in the U.S. (I have, though, seen the info behind the seat
on a Type 2 as you describe.)
Puzzled,
-Greg
'69 & '71 Squarebacks
'63 Beetle
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