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<x-flowed>I will try to find the few photos I took and scan and post them. Basically, while the fender was still attached to the car which was sitting as level as I could get it, I held the complete bug headlight unit next to the fender, bottom of the light chrome ring on the same plane as the fender, then angled it until the headlight bulb was about perpendicular to the world. Sketched a pencil line to that point, and drew a very conservative cut line. Once you have some of the metal cut out, then you can take just the chrome headlight trim ring and lay it over the fender and see much better where to trim. I used some cereal boxes for templates somewhere but I can't remember exactly where. (did this in the summer) Maybe when I find the photos I can give you more details. The headlight bucket *just* fits if you cut the fender right...maybe a little squeezing here and there. My fenders were pretty badly rotted, so it would have been as much work (almost) to fix them, and I thought the beetle lights would give it a little 356 or 912 look. I suggest you get a sacrificial fender to practice on if yours are in nice shape. You only have to fudge around with the first one because you can take a bunch of measurements of that on and transfer them to the other side. sorry if this is not helpful. At 06:31 PM 12/20/01 -0500, Thorkhild wrote: >Hey you wanna give us a rundown on how EXACTLY you grafted early bug >headlights! I wanna do that to mine! I sorta started mine. well i haven't >touched my t3 fenders yet. but i bought a pair of bug fenders and pulled out >the buckets. It looks like if i remove the buckest from teh t3 fenders and >open teh holes out perfectly i could just weld in teh bug buckets. I'm >alittle wary on cutting into my baby. But you gotta have fun w/ it! > > > >Thorkhild >Darkiside Apprentice >1968 VW Blue Fasty >http://www.edinboro.edu/~e153916n/darkside_resto.htm Allan Bonedaddy Erush Skeletons In My Closet Productions Grisly Gothic Gables Haunted House website www.skeletonsinmycloset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org </x-flowed>