No. Old vw beetles are aircooled.
If it's aircooled, don't worry about the year--maintenance on them is pretty much all the same.
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For an aircooled VW Beetle, use Castrol GTX2. It has the right viscosity.
A Super Beetle with a manual transmission has four forward gears and one reverse. A Super Beetle with an Autostick transmission has three forward and one reverse.
Roughly 250 - 260 pounds dressed.
No. No aircooled VW has a limited-slip differential.
You have to shift gears in all of them, so you'd call them "manual," but in 1969 you could get an "autostick" transmission that had an automatic clutch connected to a manual transmission.
Mine is a 1997 model. It has 4 gears.
The watercooled ones are made at VW's Mexico factory. The aircooled ones were made all over the world but are not made anymore.
No mate not really, had my Rewaco for a while now running a stock VW 1800 and no problems, (touch wood) full scope for mods also.
The firing order, or "zundfolge," of your engine is 1 - 4 - 3 - 2.