CL '73 Super Beetle $800

http://denver.craigslist.org/ctd/3070985778.html

Not mine and all that.

Kinda tempting.

In reply to fast_eddie_72:

That looks like a money maker there

say what?!
someone dropped off a super beetle at the salvation army?!

Thank God it's so far away.

That's not a Super Beetle.

ugh...too far

Woody wrote: That's not a Super Beetle.

But a clean example for that kind of money.

chandlerGTi wrote:

Woody wrote: That's not a Super Beetle.

But a clean example for that kind of money.

Agreed.

betcha it's gone by now

That could be a Super. In '73, Supers didn't have curved windshield. What really separates a Super is the McPherson IFS.

And the front hood.

Woody wrote: And the front hood.

this

Woody wrote: That's not a Super Beetle.

My friend's neighbor restored a '73 Super with a flat windshield. He couldn't find much info on why or how it existed.

Weird things are out there.

Beetle:

Super Beetle:

Look at the hoods. Woody's right.

Definately standard Beetle.

All you ever needed to know about the Super Beetle

They made torsion-bar Beetles with the small 4-lug wheel pattern?

Yes, after 1967.

Knurled wrote: They made torsion-bar Beetles with the small 4-lug wheel pattern?

Yep, for a long time, the 4 lug started in 68 (or 67 memory is fuzzy) with the IRS transmission but they kept the torsion front suspension well into the 70s. The beetle and super beetle were offered side by side until (I believe) 75 when it was supers only. As others have noted the early supers were flat window cars but the trunklid is the giveaway.

Datsun1500 wrote:

JThw8 wrote: The beetle and super beetle were offered side by side until (I believe) 75 when it was supers only.

Close. The last super beetle sedan was 75. 76-77 got regular beetle sedans and super beetle ragtops. 78 and 79 no sedans at all. Super ragtops only. USA market that is.

Thanks for the correction, my memory ain't what it used to be :)

Okay, in the interests in furthering my education in spotting A/C VWs... what's different about the hood? I can't tell the difference.

Super Beetle hood is wide and has vents below it.

Standard Beetle hood is thin and pointy. No vents.

Super:

Not so Super:

Supers have struts in front, Standards have torsion bars. That's why most Baja Bugs are Standards.

After owning a 74 standard as my first car, I got real good at spotting the supers vs. the standards just by the bumper and lower valance instead of the windshield.

Also, if they were standards and had the big tail lights and no retractable bumpers they were '73s. If they had big tail lights, retractable bumpers, and dual tail pipes they were '74s. If they had big tail lights, retractable bumpers, and a single tail pipe, most likely it is a FI '75. I have never seen a '76 or '77 sedan in person(that I know of).