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ALLWAGONS
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Location: Pasadena CA/DTLA soon China
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 Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:03 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Gave it a rinse after one year of non driving.
at the car wash
Awesome sunny day, Great for a Rose Parade cruise, but hardly any cruisers!
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I'd be UNSTOPPABLE if not for Law Enforcement and PHYSICS.
I recycle old cars and parts, other than when I rot, that's as Green as I am going to get.
Thanks to my Tesla driving neighbors, I feel more relaxed driving my SUBURBAN and old VW's.
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Buscowboy
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Location: South Coast, England
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Randall
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Joined: October 03, 2004
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Location: Orange County, Alta California, El Norte
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Sold my 64 Notch |
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From Jun 24, 2014 --
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| Did not make enough progress on my Notch. Decided to sell. Billie Joe Armstrong of the band "Green Day" bought the car. They came up from Oakland yesterday and pick the car up. |
Billie Joe's 1962 Chevrolet Nova that was stolen last week in Costa Mesa was found abandoned two days ago, 12 miles away in the city of Orange. Missing from the car is a guitar and amp.
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cdorety
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Joined: May 10, 2021
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Location: OR
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:09 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Not 'today' but over the last couple weeks:
I rewired the whole car using a rebel wire bug delux harness.
Added this decal I have been saving even before I knew I would get this car:
Today I will be replacing the OG clock with a matching Tachometer from ISP.
Took the bumpers off because, dang it just looks better that way:
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Buscowboy
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Location: South Coast, England
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:51 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Started swapping out the awful 4 into 1 and Quiet Pack for a NOS type 3 exhaust.
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1962 Gulf Blue Patina Deluxe Beetle
1963 SubHatch Westfalia MG/PW
1967 Fastback RHD Regatta Blue
1970 FI Auto Squareback
1999 T4 Transporter 2.5 TDI Reimo
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notchboy
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Location: Escondido CA
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:08 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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^^ When you put that stock one in, you are going to shit when you hear how nice it is. Go to the pub, have a few pints, shit again when you start it up, and then smile a lot.  Im telling you. 
Ive been fixing jacked up storage rat holes and restoring brakes.
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Buscowboy
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Location: South Coast, England
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Started to dye the OG carpets as the originals had suffered sun damage even here in 🇬🇧 🤣
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1962 Gulf Blue Patina Deluxe Beetle
1963 SubHatch Westfalia MG/PW
1967 Fastback RHD Regatta Blue
1970 FI Auto Squareback
1999 T4 Transporter 2.5 TDI Reimo
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260KMN
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Joined: January 17, 2014
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Location: Devon UK
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 10:18 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Got the 63 from storage for a couple of jobs.
First off, I always had starting probs, even with a new battery. So bit the bullet and got an Optima 6 v. I have always tried to keep the car as original as possible but technology says otherwise.
Tried to figure the best hold down arrangement. I also replaced the live and ground cables. Not og but they work.
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Also did version three of LH rear hub oil seal. It’s been a persistent leaker since build so tried a better quality kit from CSP, went for a drive after but time will tell if it still leaks.
That was what I did to my t3 today. |
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tjmartin317
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W1K1
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Location: Southern AB
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:51 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Woke up the square, and did a wheel/tire swap, back to daily driver for 2022
funny how much better they ride with some sidewall on the tires
Swapped out the vintage speed shifter to a CSP T handle too, every once in a while the VS shifter would try to grab reverse instead of second, the CSP has the button to prevent accidentally pulling up on the shifter 
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catbox
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:43 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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I have not done much at all for my car in some time.
However, I did find this in the swap meet over the weekend for it.
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oldskoolsteve
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Location: Vancouver Island Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Purchased dual EMPI carb kit and full ball joints and tie rods for my 63 notch.
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Mike Fisher
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Cracked one of my OG 2.0 liter Fuchs wheels.
Need 1-2 good used Fuchs from whoever has some!
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66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
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dylanmoore1
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Location: Clermont, FL
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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| W1K1 wrote: |
Woke up the square, and did a wheel/tire swap, back to daily driver for 2022
funny how much better they ride with some sidewall on the tires
Swapped out the vintage speed shifter to a CSP T handle too, every once in a while the VS shifter would try to grab reverse instead of second, the CSP has the button to prevent accidentally pulling up on the shifter
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Nice, I'm a huge fan of those wheels!
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W1K1
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:10 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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| Nice, I'm a huge fan of those wheels! |
6.5" widened stock type 3 smoothies, white powder coat with an ice pearl in the clear. They look cool, but the camera never pics up the pearl, it just looks overexposed in the sunlight
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ALLWAGONS
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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Had the carburators deep cleaned, resealed, resynced and now my squareback purrs like a kitten.
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I'd be UNSTOPPABLE if not for Law Enforcement and PHYSICS.
I recycle old cars and parts, other than when I rot, that's as Green as I am going to get.
Thanks to my Tesla driving neighbors, I feel more relaxed driving my SUBURBAN and old VW's.
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Yarkle
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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I BOUGHT IT!!!
But I chickened out driving it home.
1. I couldnt find the engine
2. I havent really driven a stick in 20 years
3. It seems to have been maintained pretty well, but I dont know how good it actually drives, stops, etc, and I didnt want to have to figure that out in the hilly terrain between Vermont and Maine
4. Not with the road rage going on that i observed on the way up and the way back
5. It was like a hundred degrees out today
But hopefully Ill have it at my house by monday or so.
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Tram
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:12 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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NICE!!! Is it a '73?
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Rome
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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I BOUGHT IT!
3. It seems to have been maintained pretty well, but I dont know how good it actually drives, stops, etc, and I didnt want to have to figure that out in the hilly terrain between Vermont and Maine
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Excellent! If you bought it in VT, is that VW shop John's Car Corner in Westminster? A well kept Type 3 is a treat for driving comfort and a very capable highway long distance touring car. Amazing there is such a difference to a Beetle despite both models having the same (94.5") wheelbase. |
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Yarkle
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Type 3 today? |
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| Tram wrote: |
| NICE!!! Is it a '73? |
Bring a lunch before you read this!:
Yes its a 73, and I did buy it from John. Ill do a ..well, not a "build" thread, but a "putter with" or "tinker with" thread once I actually have it in hand.
I have moved on from the buses, kindof too many projects and too much to do, I had alot of good father/son time with them, but I work for the Post Office and since the plague hit its been crazy busy, and to be realistic, I was just going to go on day trips for the most part. I had these ideas of like Moab, but im too old and busted for that.
So I was "hmmm..type 3s. they are dope!" So I searched on the classifieds and the various craigslists, like a jaguar tracking pronghorn in the county of Cochise.
Either they were in really nice shape, and out of my price range, or kinda OK, but i didnt want to drop mad stacks on something I couldnt touch. I really gotta get a photobucket, cuz I have a good diagram of the situation at work. Mail is at 125%, mailman supply is at 50%, so flying all over isnt going to work.
Then i found this one in Oregon, a 66 (mid 67 really), but it was just a bit too "sketchy". The guy wouldnt get me the pan numbers, etc, and it was pretty tired. No idea when engine was run. 1500 bucks
the best car carrier deal i could find was at least 3500.
So i figured Id call John up, as I hadnt been up there in a few years and I asked him if he had any squareback projects?
He said "No, but I have a nice one..California car, no rust, never been hit"
So I had to go to an appointment in white river junction anyways, so I swung by.
OK, its got a little rust, but pretty much the worst spot I could find, and I was kentucky fried mailman by the time I was done, was some scabrous stuff around the deck under the insulation. A few pinholes past the hinge, and a little bit of non magnetic stuff on the bottoms of the rear of the front fenders.
but the worst rust on this is better than the best rust on any VW ive ever owned.
Id rather he hadnt gotten it painted, but its close-ish-enuff.
But it fired right up, its got alot of little stuff to do on it.
I want to say this is the only running type 3 ive seen east of the mississippi.
He said he was sad to see it go, and he didnt really want to sell it, but he recently got a Brasilia and figured it was the time to let it go. He has driven it regularly. As I was checking it out he was giving my wife all these advices on it "How close do you live to the ocean? I was gonna wax it before you got here, so make sure you wash and wax it when it gets home"
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