So I'm now up to five early NOS distributor caps and I think I'm done buying them. Actually, I should sell a few of them but I'll get to that later.
I wound up getting the NOS Volkswagen script-so now I've got both rear pieces NOS.
I've been spending a lot of time looking for grommets...kind of obsessing about them, actually. I found quite a few of them after spending hours digging online, cross referencing part numbers, etc. The cross-referencing actually paid off because several of the grommets used in the Type 3 were used for over 20 years after the car stopped being manufactured. I found a couple of grommets that were used on the 1995 VW Jetta-which was nice because the price was very reasonable. I'm still searching for five grommets at this point but I should be able to find them soon.
I initially found the handful of grommets at four or five different places but with using the cross reference, I was able to get the majority of them from one source. There are a couple of outliers that I haven't purchased yet but I know where they are found and that's more than half the battle.
The bottom five photos are of a German brochure that folds out to the bottom image-which shows the differences between the "N" model and the "S" model. It's in really nice shape and I'm going to check into getting it scanned/copied so I can frame a copy of it and have an electronic copy.
I also bought two NOS oil fill tubes so I can scratch those off the list as well.
My wife suggested that I take an inventory of the parts-likely based on the fact that I kept saying "Hmm...didn't know I had that!" while looking through some bins tonight. Not a bad idea, actually and something I can do during the Winter months.
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