Re: [T3] '66 N model Notchback

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

I've actually never seen a car with a prop rod, so I'm feeling a little 
left out here, but my 68 square had a funny kind of round pocket 
formed into the rail on one side of the trunk lid. I never knew what it 
was for but now I wonder if that was left over from the days of prop 
rods.

Does this sound like what the prop rods anchored into? If so, it 
seems strange that VW would keep making them this way for 
years after the prop rods themselves were discontinued. Of course 
maybe they still needed to make old style replacement hoods for 
the older cars so perhaps they just thought they would keep 
making them all the same way.

If this is what was going on, does anyone know when the prop rod 
socket was discontinued in production, or was my 68 an oddball?

Did the older cars have something in that pocket other than just a 
painted metal socket?


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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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