In message <9501062259.AA20492@superior>  writes:
> Dave Kautz writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > >  wrt the silver socket secret, there are few things of which we are sure:
> > > they seem to appear only on aircooled westys built in 1980, 1981, 1982.
> > > This in itself is baffling....Dc -- 
> > > 
> >  
> >  My '74 Westfalia has a 12V silver socket beneath the glove box. The owners
> >  manual shows it in use, running the compressor that was included to fill 
> > the
> >  collapsible spare tire with which the vehicle was originally delivered.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  Dave Kautz
> > 
> 
> 
> whoa! we seem to have stumbled on an answer to the silver socket secret.
> how many people's westys came with said socket, a collapsible tire and a
> compressor? mine did not but then it was used....

This is indeed a breakthrough. My '82 also has the mystery socket and no 
compressor, but I'm the third owner. -Erik

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