RE: [T3] Tired on putting engine cover on ground

[jason.smith@sarcom.com]

Again, this is just a cover from a Square.  That would have to be an
awefully short strap to hold the lid at any height.  Every fastback I have
seen has a little metal tab that holds the lid up. I guess if this was
different for other countries, but I doubt it. Please see the following for
a year to year display of "the tab".

Here is a 72 with tab:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/index.mv?photo+27478.jpg 

66 Brochure with the tab to the left:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/66fastpamp7.jpg

67 Brochure with the tab to the left: 
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/andre/67type3s/BackLowerRightQuarter
.jpg

71 Brochure with the tab holding lid:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/71cdntype3s/11.jpg



Jason Smith
71 Square



>Surely there is somewhere to hook it - the gutter!

>Ade

jason.smith@sarcom.com wrote:

>>>to do much of anything with the engine. Fastbacks (and notches, I 
>>>assume)
>>>didn't get this strap, they just have a hook near the right 
>>>      
>>>
>>hinge that you 
>>can 
>>    
>>
>>>snag the right side latch loop into.
>>>      
>>>
>>mine has the remnants of a canvas type strap on the engine 
>>cover, IIRC. but it 
>>was never completely there so i don't know what it used to 
>>look like. i suppose 
>>my cover could have been replaced with a square version, but 
>>everything else is 
>>original so i don't think so.
>>    
>>
>
>
>This must have been from a square.  The strap would be useless on a
fasty,
>no where to hook it.  The fasty's have the little tab on the left side
top
>of the trunk opening where the cover knob hooks over.
>
>
>Jason Smith
>71 Square FI AT
>Columbus, OH USA
>http://jasontsmith.tripod.com/vw.htm
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