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Hi all,

I'm in the process of getting my 66 Bug 'light' resto'd and an Old School Looker, I have bought most parts but really needed to know what number plate light is used on the famous 63?? :D

(http://i42.tinypic.com/2j13h8p.jpg)

Thanks!

The cheapest Empi repro you can get !

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC10%2D3890 (http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC10%2D3890)

 ;)

I have not seen the "famous 63" with that numberplate, only with the 368 number.I have the empi licens light but i think it is slight diffrent from the one on aronson bug. But that kind of design is typical for truckers shop i have noticed.

Thanks for the replies, It looks like that pic is it in the very early days going by the chrome window seal trim :)

It does not look like the lisc plate light when I owned it.??? Hard to remember for sure. Have to ck pics...

It was cheap AND available at Just about anywhere..(At The Time) guys would use/make anything that worked for what they were trying to do. TOPS/PEP-BOYS....and the Real VW-based shops. It's still around and can be had easilly...

You can get one from EMPI yes, but a much better quality one of the same design can be had from many street rod shops. Danile Hood had one on his old ragtop.

I've got one of the cheap plastic ones that came on a fibreglass eyebrow lid I bought a couple of years ago. Looks very similar to the chromes metal Lucas one that's on the back of my Dads Austin Healey. You could look at places like Europa and Moss car spares?

A little bit OT......

Someone knows the size of the front tyres in that picture???

Thanx

tyres look like 135r15 (bfgoodrich according to articles) and goodyear bluestreaks.

bill here's a picture from the feb 75  ;)

cool thanx!!!!
and which size in the speedwell picture???  ;D ;D ;D

should be cinturato ( 145 ????? )

http://td.zona13.com/pics4web/cinturatolb2.jpg (http://td.zona13.com/pics4web/cinturatolb2.jpg)

135 goodrich in front and 185 cn 36 cinturato at rear

and what about this picture??

(http://td.zona13.com/pics4web/cinturatolb2.jpg)

are not these cinturato???

another setup??? or not the same car????

no, fabs is right. on the street it wore 135r15 bf goodrich tyres and 185/70/15 pirelli cinturato cn 36. but on the abovementioned picture it seems to wear bluestreaks.

definitely the same car :)

I was talking about the picture I've posted.....
I thought that picture was of the Aronson car with a cinturato.....
Is not that a cinturato???

no, cinturato tyres have a very distinct thread. those are the rear tyres in the pic that fabs posted.

Yes but in the one I've posted?

maybe you're right  ::)
may be at one time jim change the front tyres for cinturato model who knows ??? jim.................................................... ;D ;D

here're cinturato design

no photos of mine from rear...lisc # was 368 cky.. pirelli's where on it when I sold it. NO cn 36's where ever on it that i know of.

it's written on the feb 75 report check  ::)

BRM´s impossible to find in 1975? If they only knew...  :D

ok,Maybe cn 36's earliier,Had the car late 70's early 80's??? dam pot...should of never inhaled, 155's where on the front.185 rear when i had it.pirelli centuratis...?? 1975,1976 I remember working at the volvo dealer in buena park(near autohaus) and seeing jim drive by almost daily,always admiring that car.....Still looking for photos..(and keys)...bill

Apologies for thread hi-jack but just had to ask...

I heard a while back that the '63 still exists but looks much different.  With all the interest in old race/road cars is there any word of it ever being restored back to the way it was??

chris