Weird rear right wheel arch

Oliwer Lorenc · Post by **Oliwer Lorenc** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:31 pm

My beetle has weird rear right wheel arch, it's looking like this from 1967 but with no holes for z-bar. My vin number is 116 911 003 so my car is from June. On The Samba forum I found another two 1966 beetle's with same wheel arch. What do you think? Maybe somebody have this style wheel arch too?

Photo of another 1966 beetle from The Samba

Digger89L · Post by **Digger89L** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:31 pm

What are you referring to as 'weird' about the style of the wheel arch? My January, 1966 built car looks the same as the larger photo you posted ....

Oliwer Lorenc · Post by **Oliwer Lorenc** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:22 pm

I write "weird" because right side different from left looks little weird for me... But if so many beetle's have this style wheel arches it's original so it good for me

Blue Baron · Post by **Blue Baron** » Fri May 17, 2019 1:20 am

Add two more cars to the list. My black '66 had a '67 style rear quarter on the left side, and my Seasand '66 has one on the right side. This is because the new quarter panels were being phased in prior to the introduction of the '67 model. Both cars were late production run '66s. Turns out it's not all that unusual.