Another Pickle Post - 1973 Squareback

[Scotty D]

More wheel polishing. Ugh.

[Scotty D]

The old tires were cracked and the fronts just stopped holding air. So I bought some new tires to be able to at least roll it around from the garage to the driveway when necessary.

[Scotty D]

Nutty. Just found an older post with a '71 Elm Green Square that sold on my Birthday 2 months ago, in the next city over. Super clean.

https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1971-volkswagen-type-3-la-verne-ca-676410/sold

[Scotty D]

It’s been nearly a year in the making, but I finally took a road trip from LA County CA to Glendale AZ to pick up a rear clip to replace my engine deck area above the engine.

Got up well before the rooster crows, made it through Palm Desert just in time for the sunrise.

This is what I went out for. I’d been meaning to go for months but never could make it happen.

When the seller reached out to say he was moving and had 2 weeks to get rid of it, it lit a fire under my ass to make it happen. I’m so glad I did, because he’s a super cool guy and fellow VW fanatic with an early sunroof Notchback project of his own.
He also hooked me up with way more than just the rear clip. I came home with a pair of front doors, a hood, a rear apron/valance section, part of a front clip with the full dash and under-hood “hump” above the fresh air box ( which is fully rusted out on my car). Plus a spare master cylinder.

Quite the haul.

[Mike Fisher]

Well worth the trip to score a solid engine deck!
They are getting scarce.
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69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold

Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey

[Bobnotch]

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[Bobnotch]

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Finally got a minute during this busy holiday season to do a little work on the pickle. I decided to swap the passenger side window out due to the vertical scratch it had from an over-tightened arm rest screw.

I disassembled the spare door I just grabbed out in Arizona and grabbed the glass to make the swap. The clip attached to the regulator arm that slides inside the channel at the bottom of the glass broke in half. I decided to DIY another one using a good original clip as a template just to see if it holds up. I don't think anyone else is making replacements.

[Scotty D]

Threw it all back together with the DIY clip after thoroughly cleaning and lubing the channel under the window of the spare door.
The window rolls up smoothly and there doesn't seem to snag or drag as it were.

[Bobnotch]

That's a good looking spare door. Before you put the glass in it though, you should have knocked the bondo out of the trim holes, so you'll be able to reinstall the trim clips and trim.
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71 Notch ...aka Krunchy; build pics here;
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249390 -been busy working
64 T-34 Ghia...aka Wolfie, under construction... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120

[Scotty D]

And that’s why you’re the Guru Bob.

Truth be told I’m not planning on using it, but wanted it in a somewhat decent working condition just in case.

[Scotty D]

Too busy to work on the big things, so a little thing will have to do.

When this car was resprayed way back in ‘99, they didn’t do the best job of masking things off. Overspray everywhere.

One area is the license plate light assembly. The entire chrome bezel and light lenses were sprayed. Finally got around to removing them and then removing the paint. Seems like there must be an easier way to replace the bulbs, but I can’t figure it out if there is.

Paint removed, new bulbs installed. Check one small item off the list.

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Polished up nicely, it’s one of those good from far but far from good situations

[Bobnotch]

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The garage has been so jammed full of overflow items that it's been a nightmare to work on the car. When you have to move 5 giant items just to open the driver's side door, you tend to skip the work.

Finally feeling better after a week-long flu visit, still not close to 100%, but good enough to get up and about. I got into the garage and made some space. Feels good to be back to work on the VW again.

Doing some simple chores while gathering back up my strength. One of them is to create two new moisture barriers using the remnant of the only one that survived .

I might get some kind of butyl rope or a gasket type material to adhere it, like newer cars use. Is there a typical adhesive preferred by the VW community?

Contemplating installing the door panels just to see how they fit and look. It's way too early for it, but I'd love to see it done. I've got the rest of the panels as well, but those can wait.

Last small detail for the day was to pull off the FI cover plate and clean it up a bit. Hit it with the old wire wheel, then cleaned it off and sprayed some rust converter on it. I figure that since I'll eventually be replacing all of the window seals eventually, this will be sufficient to keep the panel in decent shape for a while. I'm guessing the gasket for the access panel is unobtanium, thankfullly mine is only in four pieces.

For the man too cheap to purcahse new screws...

Turned out decent enough.

[Scotty D]

Polished the last wheel. Looks good from far, but far from good.

Started out a bit rough.

Not terrible I guess.

[Bobnotch]