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Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:12 pm

Oil, schmoil. They all leak, what's wrong with that?
Anyways, let me check, 1st gear, yes, 2nd gear, yes, 3rd gear, yes, 4th gear, yes, at least finally reverse works, aahhhh yes. Nothing like a VW with all gears working.
At least the squareback drives right now eh!

JK. I feel your pain.......

Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:39 pm

Located a can of L41 Schwarz aka Black paint recently:

Thu May 17, 2007 4:39 pm

Found this Black paint stick:

Thu May 17, 2007 4:49 pm

EverettB wrote: 1lowdelivery wrote: Man Ev, how do you find all these nice rides? I wish I was your neighbor. I'd fallow your ass everywere!......nice sb............. :D
The Squareback came straight out of the newspaper...

... In Toronto, Canada
Super nice, Ev.
Was it difficult to import? My wife and I had a '74 notch that we imported. We were told that we lucked out due to the fact that it was made for sale in the US but ended up in Canada, which made no sense to me, but...

At the customs office the lady was like, "you know you'll have to pay customs on this car?". Me: "customs?,...how much is that?" Her: "twelve dollars and forty two cents".

LOL. I don't remember the exact amount, but it was rediculous.

Fri May 18, 2007 9:04 am

It was pretty easy to import because it was before they went crazy at the borders. The paperwork was minimal.

I was helped by some Samba members:
1. Michael stored it at his house in Toronto after I bought it.
2. John brought it across the border for me to his house back east
3. A random advertiser on the site who comes to AZ every year for Xmas with a trailer to buy and bring AZ VWs back east for profit brought it out for me.

I got it from Toronto to AZ for about $600. Cheap!

Yes, the border "tax" was cheap too.

Fri May 18, 2007 9:24 am

i'd slam and put earlies on it!

i had to..... 8)

Nice car Ev....

Anthony

Fri May 18, 2007 9:46 am

That's the nicest squareback I've ever looked at EB.

Fri May 18, 2007 10:05 am

EverettB wrote: I picked up this rack a few months ago:

Here's a front view:

Your Type 3 is one of the best Squarebacks I have ever seen. :D

Fri May 18, 2007 10:18 am

eastcoast57 wrote: i'd slam and put earlies on it!

i had to..... 8)

Nice car Ev....

Anthony
I bolted my Raders up to it once. It didn't look right. :)

Fri May 18, 2007 12:59 pm

EverettB wrote: eastcoast57 wrote: i'd slam and put earlies on it!

i had to..... 8)

Nice car Ev....

Anthony
I bolted my Raders up to it once. It didn't look right. :)

yeah, i dont think Radars would look good....

wasnt there a type 3 just like yours from the UK in the gallery a while back. I think it had some earlies. they look good on there.....

cant remeber where to find it but it was clean.

you gonna try a different wheel combo or stay stock????

Fri May 18, 2007 10:47 pm

eastcoast57 wrote: EverettB wrote: eastcoast57 wrote: i'd slam and put earlies on it!

i had to..... 8)

Nice car Ev....

Anthony
I bolted my Raders up to it once. It didn't look right. :)

yeah, i dont think Radars would look good....

wasnt there a type 3 just like yours from the UK in the gallery a while back. I think it had some earlies. they look good on there.....

cant remeber where to find it but it was clean.

you gonna try a different wheel combo or stay stock????
Stock, nothing really fits well on a Type 3.

I will go back to bias plies at some point.

I also have a complete set of NOS wheels I could paint.

Sat May 19, 2007 7:29 am

WOW, nice car. And as much as I love slammed cars, I'm glad you're keeping it stock.

Sat May 19, 2007 7:51 am

Here's a neat VW of Canada trash bag I found on eBay in 2006:

I try to collect anything interesting from VW of Canada since it's a Canadian vehicle.

This is cool too:

:)

Sat May 19, 2007 8:19 am

EverettB wrote: Here's a neat VW of Canada trash bag I found on eBay in 2006:

I try to collect anything interesting from VW of Canada since it's a Canadian vehicle.

This is cool too:

:)

Great collection, EverettB.

Sat May 19, 2007 11:32 am

EverettB wrote: eastcoast57 wrote: EverettB wrote: eastcoast57 wrote: i'd slam and put earlies on it!

i had to..... 8)

Nice car Ev....

Anthony
I bolted my Raders up to it once. It didn't look right. :)

yeah, i dont think Radars would look good....

wasnt there a type 3 just like yours from the UK in the gallery a while back. I think it had some earlies. they look good on there.....

cant remeber where to find it but it was clean.

you gonna try a different wheel combo or stay stock????
Stock, nothing really fits well on a Type 3.

I will go back to bias plies at some point.

I also have a complete set of NOS wheels I could paint.

Thank you.

Anymore, I find 100% bone stock quite refeshing.

Sat May 19, 2007 11:36 am

1lowdelivery wrote: Man Ev, how do you find all these nice rides?

Come on bro, thats like asking God how does he find a church

Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:10 pm

Decided to sell the rack at the VW Classic 2007... someone from Germany bought it.

Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:13 pm

Finally fixed the rear engine lid strap:

The original had a broken hook on the end. Strange because it's usually the strap that is broken, not the hook. I was looking through some stuff and saw my replacement hook. I found the hook a few years ago, probably like 5 years, ha-ha, so I had my wife sew the new one in place.

A little bit of trivia:
The new hook came from a Squareback that had even lower mileage than mine - 30K miles. The overall car was in worse condition though.

Sun May 04, 2008 9:15 pm

Lovely Square.
I was bored tonight, so I decided to search for the oldest surviving Samba thread. I think this is the one, barring any rules/faq posts.

Sun May 04, 2008 9:34 pm

Culito wrote: Lovely Square.
I was bored tonight, so I decided to search for the oldest surviving Samba thread. I think this is the one, barring any rules/faq posts.

Gravedigger!

Nice car, Ev.