The 1966 VW Beetle Forum

lstyles, the spare in my car is the original tire and wheel. Also, both front wheels are original. These three (3) wheels are all 4" wide. If you need wheel stamping numbers, just say so and I'll post soon. I'll need to pull the spare and take some pictures of the back side stampings. Here's a ...

I found it in a box of old parts that came with the car. Cleaned and lubed it up, tested the vacuum can, installed it, set the dwell and timing. I consider myself lucky it worked. There is a cool distributor/carburetor listing on another web site. According to the information I found there, the dist...

Thanks rokemester. It was one of those friend of a friend deals. The previous owner (PO) was the original owner. Car came with an incredible amount of paperwork: window sticker, sales contract, service receipts, etc. The PO stated they never intended to keep it this long. They just never got around ...

Here are a few pictures of the new car.

Just went through a horn repair on mine. If the horn sounds without touching the horn ring, somewhere between the brown wire from the horn and the nut holding the wheel on, including the steering column tube itself, the control ciruit is grounded. The horn ring is an open in the gound circuit. Push ...

Was reading some stuff on Samba. Someone mentioned a dedicated '66 site. Googled it, found it.

Hello all. Just got my first Bug. Just happens to be a '66. Typed 1966 Beetle into a search and here I am. I've all ready found a ton of information to help with some of the issues I've had with the car.
Thanks ahead of time.