Wow where do we start.
All uk 67s were 6v.
Check my thread, it's a 67 1500 6v with 4 lug wheels. Discs on front and drums back. One year only doors and handles and seat backs. Dash knobs....... The list goes on!
If u want an easy bug to resto don't buy a 67!
Actually, not all UK '67 1500s were six volt... 12 volt became a factory option for the '67 model year and one VW dealer, I can't recall the company's name off the top of my head, order all their '67s with 12 volt electrics. I seem to recall they had the M number in bold white stencilled paint on the fan housing - pretty sure it was M610. Anyway, although the standard spec for the UK market '67 as offered by VW Motors Ltd was 6 volt, the fact one shrewd VW dealer cottoned on to the fact they could order their cars as 12 volts made them a tidy sum, as Safer Motoring reported on this fact and they sold every car they had! Safer Motoring could not understand why VW had not made it a standard feature - as it was in the USA. We got disc brakes on 1500 Beetles (the Standad model and 1300Deluxe had drum brakes) and , they only got 1500s but there's were on drums and had 12 volt electrics.
I'd have like to have been a fly on the wall in the planning meetings at VW... It probably went like this;
We could give the UK got less powerful lights and good brakes. The US can have good lights and the lesser brakes.
So we couldn't see but we could stop quickly and Americans could see far enough in advance to stop quickly enough.
Don't forget the '67 had the Z-bar compensator, so was far superior to previous Beetles when it came to cornering.
