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hw 2017-056 Käfer Racer Question; THIN Rear Wheels ( Common WIDE )
Topic Started: Jan 20 2017, 07:40 PM (394 Views)
coldpopcarl
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I live a VW way of life eat breathe sleep dream & was HOME 16 years
does any Body have THIN REAR Large 5sp Yellow REAR wheels on theirs

5sp Yellow Large (THIN) - 5sp Yellow Small

sorry I have not yet a PICTURE Image capture

I only have about 8 of the Käfer Racer RED , Yet only 1 HAS THIN REAR WHEELS

So Trying TO Find out if this IS COMMON , NOT COMMON , Short Run , Just RANDOM Error/ Erriation Etc

If You Can PLEASE Post/Comment or Even SHOW Picture Images of How many YOU have
example
13 WIDE Rears + 2 THIN rears
20 WIDES + NO Thin Rears
5 Wide Rears + 5 Thin Rears


the One I have is ( THIN REAR 5sp Yel )
Base Date J42 (International card Mix ---- Sorry I DO NOT Know how to READ INTERNATIONAL LONG CARDS to say what MIX BOX assortment they came from





Will TRY to GET a PICTURE Up Tomorrow , If Not it Wont Be until TUESDAY when LIBRARY re-Opens ( Closed SUNDAY & MONDAY )

Thankx for any Input on this THIN WHEEL and ratio YOU have of WIDE & THIN REAR Wheel

col'pop ~ coldpop
Edited by coldpopcarl, Jan 20 2017, 07:59 PM.
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427 Yenko
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Mine has Wide. J42 Date Code
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funeralxempire
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J39, it originally came with wide rears.
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hw2six
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woww..., another variant.
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coldpopcarl
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I live a VW way of life eat breathe sleep dream & was HOME 16 years
I have called a goodhandfull of VW peeps in ALASKA ,WA , OR And CALIwack and all only had wide REARS
and one person had over 50+ alone all wide REARS

If anybody does end up with one or more and wants to get rid of one or few PLEASE CONTACT me
THANKX col'pop


I did capture pictures but again was locked out or was using wrong pass word so hopefully tues GET INTO photobucket and load MANY PICTURES of VW porsche Mercedes and TRAVELING JUNITA ranchero
Edited by coldpopcarl, Jan 23 2017, 12:29 AM.
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hw2six
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coldpopcarl
Jan 23 2017, 12:27 AM

I did capture pictures but again was locked out or was using wrong pass word so hopefully tues GET INTO photobucket and load MANY PICTURES of VW porsche Mercedes and TRAVELING JUNITA ranchero
perhaps the easy way is just direct attach when you reply this thread
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coldpopcarl
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hw2six
Jan 23 2017, 09:14 AM
coldpopcarl
Jan 23 2017, 12:27 AM

I did capture pictures but again was locked out or was using wrong pass word so hopefully tues GET INTO photobucket and load MANY PICTURES of VW porsche Mercedes and TRAVELING JUNITA ranchero
perhaps the easy way is just direct attach when you reply this thread
I have only been able to post a couple pictures VIA PHONE , but many times me PICTURES taken on phone are TO LARGE and have not been able to figure out how to shrink the image size old phone i could shrink size mb gb kb
Edited by coldpopcarl, Jan 23 2017, 03:46 PM.
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Interesting! I have not seen this on any other HW page or FB group, I will have to keep my eyes peeled.
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coldpopcarl
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Here is a PICTURE

both THIN REAR & WIDE REAR ( COMMON )

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Posted Image

Thankx for the L@@Kz and comments , col'pop
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Looking at the car on the left, thin wheel version it appears the inner hubs are different, left has a long inside hub, right has a short hub with an angled end.
Could be camera angle but to me the hubs look different.
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Z28HO
Jan 25 2017, 12:17 AM
Looking at the car on the left, thin wheel version it appears the inner hubs are different, left has a long inside hub, right has a short hub with an angled end.
Could be camera angle but to me the hubs look different.
Yes the thin wheels that inner side is different as the wide hub extends over farther , if you have this piece tak a look at also the front axel wheels it/they extend out farther too , the roundness sorry me eyesight is going bad and me magnify glass is being borrowed at moment it should be returned in about a hour and i can look CLOSER at roundness of (REAR WIDE , THIN )and front Thins

Thankx for the ? Of observation of i will post pucture tommorrow of these shots i have now but showing FULL BOTTOM Rear & Front
as pretty sure its how the difference of WIDE / THIN ( really MEDIUM ) i also have a calipier measurement tool as i used to docement sizes thickness diameters etc
As such as on these cars people will state L- S yet really the SMALL IS a LARGE and LARGE is a Xtra large , or say ASW All Small ( but really they are medium or even LARGE not small

Cheers from ALASKA , col'pop
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For the VW fans out there, a video in which Mark Jones talks about his design. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oksjz-IGvE&t=19s
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