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Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:02 pm

I'm seriously searching for the right Notch, but trying to re-educate myself at the same time. In my search for (maybe) another oddball, this car seems interesting: If a split rear window section was welded into it - would I have a reasonable looking fake "zwitter" w/o spending the big bucks ... ??? ...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=114434

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Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:15 am

Maybe you should stick to your T-3's.

Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:09 am

The car pictured seems pretty nice and with all the right parts could be a nice restoration. However if you have the talent to do a professional job, this car is still of project grade, and although I perfer ovals, putting a strip of steel in the back window is no big deal. It is better for someone with abilty to build a nice car out of this thing than for it to rust away...If it was a nice complete original I'd have serious issues with this, but its in need of complete restoration. I would much rather cut out a small piece of steel in the backwindow to put it back to stock than replace some of the work I've seen posted on the web by some of the selfproclaimed purist restorers out there. More than half still follow grand pappy's advice to "cave and pave" the high spots, fiberglass up any holes and braze on the new heater channels. Effectively ruining the same car they brag about saving just because their car is stock. When it is actually harder to properly restore their mess to a high quality original than some of the well done mild customs. In other words do whatever you want as long as you do it well and the car will never be a loss. Someone can always change it back if you sell it some day. I like customs and have sold many nice originals to those that want them that way,only to find out they devalued the car more by lack of ability than the things I would have done to customise the car would have. Just the same good original cars should be saved at all cost and well projects are projects. Few end up totally correct anyway....

Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:29 pm

Thanks for spending a little time on that Shark. I'm re-entering the VW world after a 15 year hiatus and trying to get re-oriented. Everybody had a Bug in SoCal back then and I didn't want to be everybody. If I'd known what a split was then I might have done it differently, but at 16-19 I wasn't thinking about collecting cars just yet.

I couldn't bring myself to bastardize an almost perfect "virgin" either. I was thinking 95% stock looking ... maybe lowered a click w/ BRM's and that's about it. And I could have a car I'm not scared to death to drive because of it's value. A work in progress.

Thanks again.

Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:16 pm

if you want a split some older man here in california has on that is for sale he want's 10k for the car it has relly nice paint and it a 50 split the car is painted green whit all the original eqipment on the car it's relly i mean relly clean just need a wash the man live's by santa cruz on the mountain's dont reamember the locationno but ill pust it up if i remember