Here's today's craft lesson.
Sometimes, a Speedster really demands that the blinker switch and housing look the part of an original 356. Certain cars simply have to have this traditional look, and if you're doing your own work and trying this alone, you're probably running into a lot of switch mechanisms on TheSamba that look like this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink11.jpg
Functioning just fine, but with badly rusted and pitted shafts. Paint can help, but can't compete with stainless or chrome. You can go out and buy a shiny repro, but this is where the Yankee in me takes over and I start to look for a better/cheaper way out.
And . . . here it is . . . old collapsible antennas.
Now the inside version, old TV rabbit ears, offer thinner tubes, they don't need to withstand 70 mile and hour winds, the outside version that go on car fenders are thicker. You decide which you like best.
Just cut a short length and slide it over the rusty blinker shaft.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink10.jpg
If it's the outside/car antenna you may have enlarge the hole a bit, like the housing on the left.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink4.jpg
But once things are back together, it looks SWEET!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink1.jpg
And with the knob in place, and a few accent ribs on top to mimic the early 356s, it looks just superb!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/blink2.jpg
AND you get to say that you did it all yourself ! ! !
foRUm priCk
"Just doin' what I do . . . "
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