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On 24 Aug 2005 at 22:52, Dave Hall wrote: > Carpet was pinned to the panels with short screw/nails - hardened nails with a > twist on the shank to reduce the chance of them pulling out. I don't know what > the official name would be - probably different in the UK from the USA anyway. Drive screw I've seen this on some cars, mostly later models, and not on others. One of my '71 had them, others did not. My '68 did not have them. I've never been able to decide whether they were factory or not. Always seemed pretty chinzy to me. I've heard of a car that had one of those screws driven thru the wiring harness that runs along the top of the left side rocker panel. It caused intermittent electrical problems that took YEARS to figure out. I guess if you've seen them in GB, then it's pretty clear that they must have been done at the factory. I wonder if it was something that was added in later production to speed things up, so they didn't have to wait for the glue to dry. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~