Duddly opened this issue on Dec 11, 2002 ยท 21 posts
ockham posted Wed, 11 December 2002 at 12:40 PM
On the trafficators: I looked it up in Collectible Automobile magazine, and it turns out that '55 was a transitional year. Sometime in the middle of the '55 model year, VW placed the turn signals rather awkwardly on the outer part of the front fenders for US models. On other versions, the trafficators stayed longer. On those early bugs, the bulbs inside the headlight lenses were only parking lights, not directional signals. The bumper overrider, again according to CA magazine, began at the start of the '56 model year. So it's a tossup; FWIW, I'd like it better with the trafficators!