Re: [T3] Pushbutton Dash woes.....

["Daniel Baum" <dbaum@isdn.net.il>]

<x-charset ISO-8859-1>Hi all,

Does anyone know if the '64 Type 3 Ghia had the same arrangement, with the
metal plate over the push button slot?

Daniel Baum





> >>the push button facility
> on the Type3 dash came to an end with chassis number
> 227 000 in about the second week of August 1963.  From
> then until, I believe, 1965 models (Aug 1964) the slot for
> a set of push buttons was merely covered over by a
> rectangular painted plate with holes in it for the push-pull
> knobs.<<
>
> At some point in production, certainly by late 1964, the dashboard metal
> stamping was modified to allow the push-pull switches to be mounted
> directly, eliminating the metal plate over the old pushbutton mounting
> slot. I think a car with a 1965 model year chassis number should have
> the revised dash.
>
> I wonder when exactly the stamping for the dash changed...anyone out
> there have a 1964 model with the switches mounted directly in the dash,
> without the metal cover plate?
>
> Scott
> 62 343 ("veg-o-matic"), 65 361 (push-pull), 01 Golf GL
>
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