The 1966 VW Beetle Forum

Take a piece of non-stretchy string and cut it to 12 and one-eighth inches long. Lay it along the crease line on the left hand side of the deck lid, from the top of deck where the crease starts. Put a pencil mark at the point where the string ends. Then, draw a one-inch line at a 90 degree angle to ...

Appreciate the offer ....and the info. So, you're saying the 66 seats are unique to that year, and no other model year seats are interchangeable??? Your price of $325 for the set seems a bit high ...my opinion ....and the shipping to me here in western Canada might just double that cost. So, perhaps...

If I was to be looking for a set of "correct" front seats for my 66, which other year's seats would fit? Mine currently has a "wrong" passenger seat for the driver seat, and I think also a wrong seat for the passenger seat. My passenger seat has a pull up lever (broken) on the to...

New guy here, need some help / direction. Searched the forum topics but couldn't find the info needed. I have a 66 standard bug that needs ALL the glass, except for the headlight covers. Everything got vandalized before I bought the car last week. So ....which years of Beetle glass will fit in my 66...

In July, 1969, I bought my third Type 1 VW ...a 1966 Bahama Blue model, with 40,000 miles on the odometer. I paid $1100 for it from a local GM dealer. I don't know why someone would have traded-off a 3 year old Beetle, but I recall (in those days) most people would have considered a car "worn o...