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On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 20:03, John Jaranson wrote: > Don't need a very careful comparison. Pausing the DVD and holding the > part up (from my '71 Jane) it is very clearly the same part. They > didn't even modify it all all. The ridges are exactly the same. There > is a silver tube coming off the bottom at a 45 degree angle or so that > corresponds to one of the outlets of the "box". Very cool. > > Makes me curious. I wonder if there are any other Type 3 parts in the > movie. Hard to imagine that they just happened to have that one part > laying around. Wonder if they had a Type 3 that they scavengered for > props. Will have to watch some of the junk scenes a bit closer. There > are lots of them in the movie. Bound to be some other Type 3 parts in > there somewhere. <G> > I noticed on Junk Yard Wars that one of the trophies the gave at the end, was made from a T-3 automatic differential pinion shaft. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~