trivia question: glove boxes

[dubois]

spring cleaning time, found these two glove boxes, the one on the left weighs a whole pound less (3 vs 4 pounds), which I found significant. For those interested in shaving weight while maintaining the stock look,it may be worth knowing. Anybody know when they made the change and why?

[InkaSteve]

Does that mean that we can put another pound of junk in the lighter one?? Do you know which one is the newer one? Is one Euro and the other the US version. Maybe they made them heavier to compensate for the fat Americans sitting alone in the driver's seat.

[jgerock]

I have no clue - a guess:

Change when the dash assembly went from 2-piece to 1-piece?

Or 3-piece to 2-piece?

Note the thickness of the front portion.

[BMW0299]

When the mice that live there complained.

I scraped the entire coating off just because of the filth.

[Mike Self]

gloveboxes are different--the one on my '69 has a different shape on the back side than does my '73, and they don't bolt up to each other's gloveboxes.

A fast look in the parts book would probably reveal when the change was made.

I think the majority of the weight difference that Michael noticed was in the face piece--and I suspect the lighter weight one is the later one...

mike

[MrNvgtr]

My guess:

1. '74 - '76 updates

2. U.S. vs Euro (BMW did this with other models gloveboxes)

[TobyB]

I bet that it changed at 71.5 with the dash and the 6-12 fuse change.

Reason being, I've had trouble swapping boxes between roundies, too...

heh

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