Snowflake rear lights for Steve's '60 Beetle

Steve gives us an insight as to why he wanted the snowflake rear light lenses for his project Beetle

VW Beetle snowflake rear light lenses

VW Beetle snowflake rear light lenses


A few weeks back I bought a pair of rear light lenses for my 1960 (soon to be Ragtop) Beetle. And Jon posted a blog up about them. Now you might have been sitting there wondering "why's he done that? They’re the same as the set on the car!" Well here’s a picture to show you why. On the left we have the Swedish spec plastic lenses and on the right the glass so called ‘snowflake’ lens.

It’s a minor detail, I agree. But the devils in the details! How much cooler do the Snowflakes look? Well worth the £25 they set me back in my opinion.

Now all I need is a rust free off side rear light housing, as I’ve just sand blasted mine and blown the bottom out of it (nasty!).

So if anyone out there has a rust free off side '56-'61 light housing email me on stephen_gosling@ipcmedia.com

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