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Re: [T3] Notch engine lid clip


On 16 Jan 2004 at 16:40, Ben Doughney wrote:

> On 16/01/2004, at 2:22 PM, Mark Seaton wrote:
> 
> > my '73 fasty never had one and
> > doesn't have the thing its meant to clip onto either and I'm not
> > complaining.

It looks like VW simplified things in the last year of production and just 
produced a single engine cover that year that had NO extra features specific to 
any body style. So the squares lost the strap and the notches lost the clip.

> On my fastback it has a metal tab sticking out below the seal on the 
> lefthand side of the boot. The handle for the latch fits over it to 
> hold the lid up, must have been something else they changed late in the 
> game.

I think that's the way the fastys always were.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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