looking under passenger seat for my phone in my vintage built speedster and found a battery disconnect switch hidden under there, did vintage put them in or something the previous owner installed ?
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It was common for VS (Hawaiian Gardens) to install a kill switch under the dash, on the drivers left hand side of the column ( right next to where the column attaches to the under dash cross frame member). This was a charged extra.
they also offered a battery disconnect, but that was typically installed in the frunk , in the battery compartment.
i personally am not aware of them installing a kill switch under the pax seat, or a battery disconnect under the pax seat. but you never know what an owner may have requested., or if an owner installed it post delivery. If you have a copy of the cars build sheet you could check for this extra.
So it's one of those heavy duty switches with the big removable plastic key? Are the wires under the car and exposed ---- or under carpet? Or is it like the PERKO marine disconnect switch?
looks like the one in your pic, wires are under the carpet
Are you sure it's a Vintage build and not a JPS? JPS commonly put a battery disconnect under the passenger seat.
JPS...mine is under the passenger seat. Wife bumps it with her purse occasionally. The connections may scare you!
good question, previous owner used the word vintage so I assumed it was, it has a banjo steering wheel, plate with vin is a aluminum plate on forward drivers door post, don't know how to identify it, has ignition on dash with no slot on steering column for it, open to somebody with more knowledge for some clarity, has chrome wide 5s with p chrome hubcaps, single carb, no hole in firewall in front of fan, anything else I could look at to help identify it let me know, thanks
Post some pictures or tell us where to look if you already have.
not sure I can post pics here with a flip phone, wifey has a i phone , could take pics and somebody tell me how to post, or private message me with your number and I could text pics from my flip phone.
Darrell - Send them over to me, either XXX-XXX-XX48 or my email and I'll post them.
You should meet @Al Gallo out in Eastham - He's a flipper, too!
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@widebody boy posted:...plate with vin is a aluminum plate on forward drivers door post...
Well, that's another thing that VS never did.
They put a cutout and small flap in the carpeting at the forward edge of the rear 'seat' shelf, so you could access the top of the tunnel where the original VW vin was engraved.
Some owners may have registered their cars in states that required a state-issued registration number (and that's possibly what you're seeing on the door frame), but if it's a VS (and still has the original carpet), you should be able to find that flap and the VW VIN on the tunnel.
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There is a little flap of removable carpet on the tunnel right where the original vin is.
Some closeups of the engine compartment and the ends of the dash would help determine if it was a Vintage or JPS. My money's on the latter.
Lane: Look over here:
Thanks, Gordo. Hmmm... The dash definitely looks like a VS, while the seats look more JPS, and the engine doesn't look like either. Could be an owner-finished VS or CMC, I suppose. That's a bit of a mystery.
I owned a JPS from ‘02-‘04. My money is on JPS. As a matter of fact, I’d be very surprised if it wasn’t a JPS.
They did a lot of speedster seats with ribbed upholstery, their dashes are indistinguishable from a VS, and John loved that EMPI battery cutout behind the passenger seat.
The real tell is the side mirrors. That is exactly where John Steele put them, no matter what you asked for. They are several inches forward of where VS put them.
John bought his bodies from Kirk, so a JPS was really just a VS with better paint.