Weird Fuse Box cover

[Jim Breazeale]

Brett Johnson asked in the November?December 1992 issue of the Registry about a "clip-on" fuse box cover. Well, it has taken me 20 years to answer his request. I have the same type of cover in my 62 Cabriolet. It has 2 posts attached to the fuse box frame and the fuse box cover snaps over the ends of the pins. I have wondered about this for the whole time I have owned the car. I purchased the car as a total wreck from the original owner's family in 1979, repaired the damage and have just driven it since. Check out the pictures. I suspected that it was a factory installation. With more than one of these things out there, it was probably done at the factory. Does anybody else have one of these?

[Jack Staggs]

Early '62 only. Thanks for posting the pix. They seemed to keep the fuse box studs a while longer than the side jack mounts.

[Jim Breazeale]

Early '62 only. Thanks for posting the pix. They seemed to keep the fuse box studs a while longer than the side jack mounts.

Jack

Those are my thoughts, too. Early 62 also saw jack clips on first 100 or so Cabriolets and Karmann Hardtops. The fibre fuse box covers all have the indents for the clips and all T6 plastic trunk liners have a place for the jack to hide under on the right side of the gas tank. The bean counters at Porsche must have seen early on that they could save a few cents per car by removing those 2 convienent features.

Regards

Jim