{"id":660,"date":"2018-01-08T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=660"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:21:18","slug":"nice-prey-some-help-form-the-experts-would-be-even-nicer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Nice prey, some help form the experts would be even nicer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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back from Rosmalen I present to you my prey. Also here I need the help from experts. Please see my questions below the pictures. If anybody could help with some answers, please send a comment.<\/p>\n

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Best regards from Bonn<\/p>\n

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Florian<\/p>\n

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A very nice owners manual dated March 1952 (I would swap against an iusse of June, July or August 1951). My question to the experts: in this manual I can\u00b4t find any Samba-specific content as handling the sunroof for example. Did the Samba have its own manual?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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A NOS-tailpipe for the single tip muffler is always a nice find. But I saw these in different length. What would be the correct one for the Samba? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Are all Barndoor steering wheels the same? I know the Samba needs a ivory one, but wouldn\u00b4t it be OK just to paint this one here?    
\n<\/strong>OK I got the answer on this one now. Please see details in the comments.
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The 1954 parts catalog says that the Samba had the same speedo plate as the Export split bug (in opposite to the speedo plate for the regular bus, which is -due to the parts catalog- a bus specific unit, whatever the reason might be). So this one here should work for the Samba when I change the speedo, right?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Can anybody date this brochure? On the back it says 12.51, but I doubt it and think it must be a little later. Why?
\nWell, it\u00b4s regarding this picture of the dash board, which I found in the brochure:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Do you see the two little switches left and right the ashtray? A December \u00b451 should have just one switch, at least if the dash below, which belongs to a February \u00b452 Samba, was restored in the right way (of which I am sure since this collector is a serious one).
\nAlso I do know now that the steering column tube and its fixing bracket are of black colour in 1951.
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The one-switch only dash is for sure correct until end of 1951 at least. Just have a look into the very first Samba sales bruchure, here is the one-switch version as well:<\/p>\n

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Note also the unique ashtray! It\u00b4s peeping out of the dash and it is smaller than all the other ashtrays!
\nInteresting detail for our king-of-dashboards, Mark Spicer  \ud83d\ude42    Did you know it, Mark?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear VW-friends,   back from Rosmalen I present to you my prey. Also here I need the help from experts. Please see my questions below the pictures. If anybody could help with some answers, please send a comment.     Best regards from Bonn   Florian   A very nice owners manual dated March 1952 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}