Posted by: AW - 23 November 2013 16:03:54
Some nice photos of the front wings on 38s also look at that bonnet handle [ATTACH]8525[/Attach] [ATTACH]8526[/Attach] [ATTACH]8527[/Attach] [ATTACH]8528[/Attach] [ATTACH]8529[/Attach] [ATTACH]8530[/Attach]

Posted by: Old Blue - 25 November 2013 09:50:01
Reg number 43016 has a different bonnet handle to 43006.

Posted by: Piet - 26 November 2013 22:18:38
I'd like to look behind the spare tyre, it looks like a flat piece of sheetmetal is there?

Posted by: Rattletrap - 27 November 2013 12:51:19
[quote=Piet;57835]I'd like to look behind the spare tyre, it looks like a flat piece of sheetmetal is there?[/quote] I doubt that these pre-production cars were the same there as the regular KdFs.

Posted by: AW - 27 November 2013 16:12:00
Looking under the bonnet i wonder if it is a piece of bodywork or something just sat there. If you look at the other side further back you can see a cylinder or some thing on top of were the petrol tank would sit on later cars. Andy W

Posted by: Piet - 27 November 2013 16:40:36
Is it the clock or measuring device you mean Andy?

Posted by: AW - 27 November 2013 16:55:06
Arrrrrrrr a measuring device yes that's the one :thumbup: I now seem to remember seeing a very early taxi with something like that under the bonnet. Andy W

Posted by: pre67vw - 27 November 2013 17:05:49
[quote=AW;57841]Arrrrrrrr a measuring device yes that's the one :thumbup: I now seem to remember seeing a very early taxi with something like that under the bonnet. Andy W[/quote] [img]https://www.pre67vw.com/shows/photos/VW38/IMG_6395.jpg[/img]

Posted by: Piet - 27 November 2013 22:05:38
Nice shot, thanks! But this is what i thought it would look like behind the tyre... [ATTACH]8533[/Attach]

Posted by: Undis - 02 February 2014 23:23:37
A piece of cardboard (same material as trunk liner) was used behind the spare wheel to eliminate at least some of the dust getting into the luggage area. In some photos of the VW38 cars it is seen installed, in some not. The pull-type of bonnet handle must have been such a flimsy design that on some of the VW38 cars it was later changed to the better known L handle and the later cars in the '38 series had the L handle already from the factory.