Re: [T3] Fasty pop-out seals

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

> Uhhhh, Neil (or maybe Dave Hall), can you offer a translation for us
stoopid
> americans?  If I'm thinking clearly here, you're saying that they used
the
> front (boot?) hood seal, or did you mean the rear decklid seal (bonnet is
> normally the engine cover, right?)?

I guess he meant the front luggage compartment cover seal for the Beetle.
The newer Mexican ones have a clip on seal that fits on the cover lip
rather than on the body under that folded strip.

The bonnet is always the front cover, and the boot is the luggage
compartment.  Type 3s (Notch and Fastback) have two boots, one is covered
by the bonnet and the other by the bootlid!  I wouldn't describe the Square
rear luggage compartment as a boot, though.
Somewhere I've got a video copy of the old '66 TV advert of Dustin Hoffman
showing the new Fastback as having two luggage compartments.  "In the front
where other cars have their engine, it has a trunk, and at the rear where
other cars have a trunk, it has . . . . . .  another trunk.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
http://www.hallvw.clara.net/
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jake Kooser <jake_k@attglobal.net>
To: Type 3 <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: 10 March 2000 00:46
Subject: RE: [T3] Fasty pop-out seals


How does that whole boot/bonnet thing
> translate in our case?  TIA for us whose native lingo is 'Merikan.  BTW,
it
> sounds like a real cool idea if it's the squooshy (there's an
american-ism
> for ya!) seal that slips onto the edge of the sheet metal.
>
> Jake Kooser
>
>
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