Did I pay too much for this?

[nettlesre at gmail.com (Rob)]

>Nope.  It's the aluminum badge for the driver's side of the hatch that
>was used only on 75-76 carbureted cars.

I did find a pair on a MK I that look just like that one and they came from
the door sill. I'll post a pic when I can find it.

-Rob


On 7/21/06, Gordon Forbess <gforbess@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:05:19 +0000, julie@menloparkrandd.com wrote:
>
> >Looks like the name badge off a door sill. Is that correct?
>
> Nope.  It's the aluminum badge for the driver's side of the hatch that
> was used only on 75-76 carbureted cars.  VW went plastic on later cars
> (when "Fuel Injection" was added below the "Scirocco") and swapped
> sides with the "Volkswagen" badge.  I think that's when they also went
> to the mismatched (non-italic) font for the VW badge.  P/N is
> 531853687
>
> I'd really like to find the 75-76 "Volkswagen" in the proper italic
> script that matches "Scirocco".  It was on the early Rabbit hatch as
> well and may have been used on other models.
>
> Gordon
> 75 Mk I/Drake 1.9
> http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm
>
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-- 
-Rob