Using Your Type 3

Orbison74 · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:03 pm Post subject: Using Your Type 3

I thought this would be a good venue for people to show pictures of their Type 3's in action. No trailer queens aloud. Most Type 3's I see on the road are daily driven. Some even holding 4 or 5 ladders and buckets of paint! To start it off, here's a couple I took on the way across the country last week. I should have taken more. Hopefully some of you add your own.

my parents house:

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Ohio:

Illinois

Iowa:

Colorado:

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BSQUARE · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:54 pm Post subject:

It looks like you still have some suspension travel - try harder next time Wink

I treat mine like a truck with a topper

Took out a retaining wall from someone's backyard, I made 6 or 7 trips home (about 10 miles away) bottomed out.

Found a free wood-burning stove - it would have fit with the hatch shut, had I thought to take out the passenger seat (Ted Bundy would approve)

Ladders? No problem...

Some sidewalk/patio blocks? I could have hauled more...

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Orbison74 · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:01 pm Post subject:

YES!! Thats exactly what I wanted to see. Keep em comin!
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ALLWAGONS · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:35 pm Post subject:

Before she was Fancy, she did a lot of dirty work!

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65Nsqback · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:10 pm Post subject:

Swapping with my panel

And the inside is full as well Smile

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Orbison74 · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:23 am Post subject:

that's awesome! these pictures are getting me fired up.
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Mike Fisher · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:18 am Post subject:

I don't even have one picture of the many times mine has been loaded down, but they sure come in handy!

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VWporscheGT3 · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:03 pm Post subject:

wish I would have had the foresight to take a picture back then but when I had my 68 square i bought two t-3 motors (back when i was single and could spend money frivolously..) and I layed down the back seat and slid them in there... wasn't bottomed out but damn near. that was a memorable trip.. you meet some of the coolest people..in a VW
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W1K1 · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:57 pm Post subject:

a trip to the garden center, costco and home depot for some concrete, mine gets driven and used for tranporting stuff daily, I rarely take pictures of it.
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rowanfry · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 12:56 am Post subject:

Heres a few

Hauling some Ferrari wheels for a friend

Moving house

Moving Islands, both cars loaded up to the max!

Jack square · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:08 pm Post subject:

mine is daily driven to school and building wagon in the holidays
the classic is having full lengths of 4 by 2 out the side window and rear hatch i need to get a photo next time i do it haha thay get worked hard here in nz
after a days work cant see but she is full of tools

Chino_UK · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:42 am Post subject:

Never fails to amaze me how much camping gear the Fasty can haul about Smile

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avesondm · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:24 am Post subject:

Working hard and I got thirsty so I went to the store.

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Clatter · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:08 am Post subject:

Surfboards!
Very Happy

If you cut the struts out from behind the rear seat,
A fastback can haul stuff, too!

Here, a 6'6" fits in and lays flat with scooting the seat up a bit.
If you lean the passenger seat back forward, the biggest that fits is 7'2".

Important that it all fits inside, as you have to have them with you at all times, in case it starts getting good out there....

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t3kg · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:36 am Post subject:

I moved a couch across town once in my old Square, hatch open. I had to hold my breath because of the exhaust fumes. The Square is long gone but we still have the couch!
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spinster · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:34 am Post subject:

I was on the rear bumpstops yesterday coming back from a swapmeet. Forgot completely to get a pic!
Front and back full, as well as roof rack!!

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ClockRoach · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:24 am Post subject:

Squarebacks sure do love ladders, huh? I haven't gotten myself a fancy vintage style roof rack, but the yakima works great for hauling a kayak or two and I can pop it on or off in just a few seconds.
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swivel'n · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:17 pm Post subject:

Heres my 69 pickin up our christmas tree last year. This thing has turned into my work horse after i put the rack on her!

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Nate M. · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:33 am Post subject:

Proof that the Squarsche is still a working shop-car. . . Laughing

Here hauling freshly powder coated engine tins.

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