Asad, More than likely the very cheapest version. I just did the replacement on an original 3rd owner 67 yesterday and instead of buying the $80 "resoration quality" firewall from cip1, I bought the cheaper stuff....almost paper thin, and they could just roll it up and put it in the shipping box...
whereas, the "restoration quality" stuff had to be shipped at separate cost in large flat box...it was about 3/16"(~5mm) thick and the stuff I got for the 67 might have been less than 1/16th(1.3mm?) If the folks that sell these would just tell us what the thickness was of what they are selling.....*then* I could make a choice. I am betting that the original stuff I took out was close 1/4"(~6.3mm). Cheers, dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Enough sunlight reaches the Earth *every* hour to meet the world's energy demand for an entire year.....so, what do we do with it? On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, asad ishaque wrote: > > Volks! > > Have a question about the tarboard firewall insulation. Im sure Bert > would be interested in this. > > Many years ago my brother Suleman made a very lucky find by locating an > NOS firewall insulation tarboard. He purchased it and we put in on the 68 > daily driver. It was of pretty much the same material as originally on the > car....well the remains. > > Last week I bought a set for my 59 rag project. Now this is of an > entirely different material. Its thinner, more flexible and has a more > textured finish. I doubt it is original. > > I got it from a person who used to restore VWs for a living till some > years ago. He claimed it was the original thing. I pointed out that the other > was of a different material but he insisted that there were two or more types > available. This new one has a good finish and does have cutouts for the > cables to pass thru and all. But maybe it was manufactired locally here. > > Can anyone throw some light here? Is this guy telling the truth?? I > really dont have any choice here and would happily keep my current purchase > even if I know Ive been had! > > Asad. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. > http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008 > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
