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Re: [T3] VW factory pins


> I may be wrong, but the first one looks like 900,000 not 100,000, doesn't
> it?
>

Probably just a continental '1'.  It has a very pronounced upward stroke before
descending - they look more like a '7' to me.

That reminds me of an episode in the '70s when I looked through some VW parts
that a woman had after her VW-enthusiast husband had died.  There was a Beetle
engine, number (I thought) 7xx,xxx.  Quite early, I thought, maybe mid-'50s, but
why was the coil on the far side of the fan-housing?  I told a local VW expert
and he managed to keep his eyeballs from popping out.  I had been deceived by
the 7; it was actually a '1', and the engine it turned out was from a 1942
Schwimmwagen.  The coil was apparently put the other side to protect it from
splashing.  The good news is that it's now in a 1942 Schwimmwagen, but I expect
the expert made a bit on the deal!

Dave.
UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club
http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/
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