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Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:14 am

Possibly against my better judgement, I dragged home a '62 T34 Coupe yesterday. I wasn't actively seeking a new project, but I was receptive to the idea if right car came up.

This car (#0 018 896) was originally pulled out of a junkyard in Fairfield in 1998 by Larry Edson & Richard Troy. Larry had collected a zillion parts for it over the years, a lot of them NOS, but finally decided it was time to let it go.

More pix @ http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?...uthor=thom

Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:31 am

Looks like Richard in that first picture. Classic "before" picture!

Max

Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:32 am

Hardship case... but much worse cars have been rejuvenated. I admire the T34 alot but never even sat in one. Hope you can get it going again. Please share your progress occasionally (with photos) here.

Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:58 am

Congrats. I remember when Larry rescued it from the wrecking yard. Looks like it's a good solid base for a Type 34 build and it's an EARLY one too. Did it come with some ugly brown seats? If so those came from my car. Those seats and a lot of other parts on your Ghia are one-year-only and won't interchange with later years, so if there's anything missing you'll have to be really careful and know what you're looking for. Hopefully Larry set you up with most of what was stripped off when it was in the yard. Let me know if there's any way I can help.

Scott

Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:41 am

A little more back story - Back in December of 1998 a guy by the name of Dennis Greenland posted to the Type 2 mailing list about finding a Type 3 Ghia in a Pick-n-Pull in Fairfield, CA. Dennis Farr then cross-posted that email to the Ghia mailing list.

I was headed to Fairfield that day so I took my camera (film) with me to have a look. After getting home, I took the film to a 1-hour photo place, then scanned them and put up a quick web page about the car (Remember, this was way before theSamba forums existed). I have resurrected that page here:

http://home.comcast.net/~minkt/t34/t34junk.htm

That page resulted in Richard Troy and Larry Edson deciding to save the car. Then a few weeks ago Thom mentioned to me that he was looking for an early T34 and I knew Larry still had this car and I was able to put the two together. I was absolutely blown away by the amount of awesome hard -to find NOS stuff Larry had collected over the years for this car.

Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:54 am

thom wrote: Possibly against my better judgement, I dragged home a '62 T34 Coupe yesterday. I wasn't actively seeking a new project, but I was receptive to the idea if right car came up.

This car (#0 018 896) was originally pulled out of a junkyard in Fairfield in 1998

Nice VIN, built in February 1962... an early one 8)
Congrats. and good luck with the resto !

Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:48 am

I have a bad habit of making impulse purchases

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1495345

Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:20 pm

Well, if this is the sort of thing you have in mind for it I'd say it's found itself a good home. :D

Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:10 pm

It looks like it's found itself a good home. Reminds me of my own T-34, back when I started working on it almost 2 years ago (damn, has it been that long already :shock: ).

Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:53 pm

Getting it from Larry is a big deal. He knows his T34s and has been at it for years. If he gave you all the stuff to compleet it then this cars almost done :wink:

Great purchase, I hope it turns out as nice as that T1 lowlight.