Ok so they change the fuseebox before they change the fueltank
But the holes are not on the correct place for the fuseebox see picture
Maybe the holes where drill later in  2441.JPG You have insufficient rights to see the content.

Carsten, on Fb, Richard Hausmann is wrinting this:
"My car is build July 30th, 1949, It is the same on mine with the number 1-1137xx and original inner fenders and all lids: small gas tank, but all the other things like grooved bumpers, no license plate embossing, card board glove boxes and new front hood locking etc. It seems, that they changed the gas tank the last."

So it is ok with the pressing. You can close the 2 holes next to the fuel tank ;-)
I checked picts on early Hebs. Heb 166 that war restored by Pascal, does have the small tank and the same pressing as Carsten's front clip, later style.
Heb 136, heb 100 does have the pressing also, even hebmuller 46 and heb 006 does have the pressings...

So Carsten, it is ok to have the pressing 😉

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Yes Peter, wasn´t that clear after this info?


Fusebox changed early May, tank stayed small at car 1-0102xxx

Tank changed at mid August at car 1-0116xxx

This is a 1-0111xxx car from July.
So all good the way it is.

I just wondered now if there is any sense making reason for these holes to keep them.
Is there anything that should be bolted on there?
I guess no, so I´ll close them.

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The holes that you have in the flat panel beside the fuel tank do not look to have threaded inserts and also look to be placed through the support bracket below.
I don't believe that Volkswagen would have placed holes here and certainly not without then being fitted with threaded inserts. They are further apart and further back than those for the earlier fuse box.

That's my opinion anyway.

Rod

Yes, fellow.
But that was not the question anymore.
The holes are not factory made. That was already cleared up.
Yes, they are placed through the bracket below. That was meant when I said there is a double sheet metal. They are NOT for the fusebox. That is clear by now.
I just still wondered what they where made for.
I said they have tapped threats. And they really have. No threat inserts but someone drilled through the two metal layers and cut threats for machine screws.
Quite accurate and well crafted. I just would had liked to find out what for.

On top of that I just found that pic of a just little earlier car with the two threat inserts for the fusebox in front of two extra holes nearly at the same place as mine.
What the heck did they fix there?

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Carsten I guess you will need a crystal ball or a ouija board to discover what some previous owner made them for.

Good luck with the restoration.

Rod

Thank you. I´ll need luck. I all the time have to do things I have never done before.

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Hi Carsten.

If the car was equipped with a Telefunken radio the vibrator should have been mounted in that location beside the tank.

So maybe the two holes were for the front brackets of the vibrator. Do you have any holes in the rear that could fit for the rear brackets?