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Is this so you can compare willies in private ?
meady100 Ninja Edit said:Mine's a Stage 4 revo'd FRS mate - wanna compare willies?
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Touched a nerve?
Confused at the mods though...never understood bonnet bra's or tow straps
Touched a nerve?
Confused at the mods though...never understood bonnet bra's or tow straps
Looks sick init.
Nah fam?! 4 rial? Must add at leaaaaaaast 5 bhp, no?
Skaif - if you do lots of trackdays a tow strap is a sensible option and some are a right pain to remove once fitted and the bra just stops stone chips. It's really not difficult to understand, unless you feel like it's your personal mission to try and get the guy to remove them just because you don't like them?
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90% of people with tow straps on road cars do approximately zero trackdays and stick the strap on because its 'cool'.
That's fine, not having a dig at the guy just expressed my views on the confusion it gives me when people do it. Personally couldn't care less!
I do think that it ruins the look of a car though. Tow strap IMO is a bit pointless on a car like that, unless the owner plans on binning it? It would make sense on a performance track car, like Gibbo's M3, didn't see one on that though?
Also the car bra spoils the front. Usually a decent looking car but with that it looks like it has a rubbish batman mask on. Don't really get it...Kind of like when people have cases on their phones. I would rather have it bare and admire the looks
Unfortunately not quite as rare as you think: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/productionfigures.php
Total pickup models made for the split screen: 356751
They're quite common at the classic VW meets, still very cool though
Alternatively (as the post hides the windscreen a bit) if it's a bay window single cab then yes, it's rare.
The tall rear light clusters would allude to it being a late gen 2 Type 2 (bay window). Early gen 2 Type 2s carried over the smaller rear lights from the gen 1. So you get some late 60s and early 70 / 71 / 72 registered gen 2 Type 2s that have the bay window, but rear lights from the first gen (which, if you were just identifying them from the back, could throw you off). They also produced them with the front indicators down low on the front of the vehicle. Low lights. Then I think when they got the large rear clusters, the indicator lights at the front were raised. So if you've got a Gen 2 Type 2 bay window, with small rear light clusters and low front indicator lights, it's exceedingly rare as they were in production in that format for not very long (also given how Type 2s like to rot).
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1971 Low light - front - low indicatorst
1971 Low light - rear - small clusters
1972 - rear - large clusters
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