engine numbers

SAMBA has some info - from chart there it looks like a '70 Ghia or T1 engine.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/arc.../chassisdatingkg.php

1600 cc Single Port? 

I've got an F-series case (1966) if you want to talk. Though I guess that doesn't get any more "originality" points than a 1970 mill.

Thanks,

It's a single port motor, which is why I thought it might be of the right age. With the 356 Porsches, which I have some experience with, I have some charts which the actual time period that motor was made and the appropriate body which it went into. Do you think samba might have chart?

I forgot to mention that one of my customers is trying to sell a ghia convertible. He claims it's a 1979. Did they still make them that year? If anyone is interested I will send you his phone number when I get to work on monday.

They stopped making the Ghia in 74

1979 was the last year for the VW bug at least in the US.  They continued to make the bug in Mexico and some made it to the US after they got all smogged up.

Wasn't the late (1979) convertiblemade in Karmann Rheine factory - perhaps that's what he meant?