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'67 trim question
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:24 am
by crvc
The chrome strips on the side of my new old '67 type 1 are less than half an inch in width. The strip running along the middle of the front hood is roughly an inch in width. Is this hood from a different year of VW?
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:35 am
by Marc
Yes, the front hood is one of many one-year-only parts on a `67. An earlier hood fits but the holes need to be filled and smaller ones drilled for the narrow-chrome trim clips.
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:36 am
by crvc
Thanks for the reply. Would it be easier to go the other direction? That is, put older, wider strips along the sides to match the front hood? Kinda like the way the wider strip looks.
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:43 am
by Marc
crvc wrote:Thanks for the reply. Would it be easier to go the other direction? That is, put older, wider strips along the sides to match the front hood? Kinda like the way the wider strip looks.
I suppose it would (easier to make holes bigger than smaller) but it seems sacrilegious to me to alter a `67 like that.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:18 am
by Mabbo
hey dude, dont do it!!
my 67 has had wider trim fitted at some point, all the holes have been made bigger, grr
im gonna get it put back 2 the narrow trim
mabbo