1965 sunroof variant finally done!

[Shaven]

[rhd 54]

[Shaven]

[bent_karma]

wow indeed this car looks amazing!! I was wondering if you had videos of the car? driving? etc.
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'71 VW Bay Window Deluxe Bus [Busness] sold
'73 VW Thing [Agent Orange]
'71 VW Squareback (first air cooled/vw ever) sold
'07 Mazda3 Hatchback GT [the Mazda]
'06 Nissan Sentra 1.8 S (gone at the moment) sold
'18 Subaru Forester 2.5i [Sue Bee]

"Water is for drinking"

[ALLWAGONS]

Old and New VW wagons

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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.

NON INFLUENCER APPROVED

[Tram]

[squaretobehip]

[ALLWAGONS]

[Tram]

[Shaven]

[ALLWAGONS]

So like a bad son, I missed Ruby Red's 50th Birthday. I tried to make it up by taking it for a Thanksgiving drive but it refused to start.
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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.

NON INFLUENCER APPROVED

[Erik G]

[Clatter]

"Sitting is worse for them than driving 'em"

If you need any help with this, let me know.
I'd be more than happy to put a few thousand miles on it for you...
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Bus Motor Build

What’s That Noise?!?

[vmg]

I just saw this thread. Wow! Congratulations on a truly fantastic restoration, Martin!!!

It really encourages me to do my car well and get it back to original!

Victor

[ALLWAGONS]

Thanks to an old friend, I was reunited with MY 1st Place plaque from the VW Classic, after 9 years. Ist and only show I've entered my '65 VW squareback .

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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.

NON INFLUENCER APPROVED

[ALLWAGONS]

So over the course of 10 yrs while I've finished the forever restoration of my '65 sunroof Variant, I ran into a few embarrassing moments, where the car just turned off and wouldn't crank, start or would lose all electrical power. It was frustrating as EVERYTHING was replaced with NOS parts. Well, to make a long story short, I didn't drive it for the most part of 2020 due to Covid precautions, as there was nowhere I wanted to go. Fast forward to 2021, I started moving it around and taking short drives. On one hot summer day It started sputtering and misfiring. I knew there was some type of dirt or fuel starvation of some sort.

I decided to take it for a spin, to clear out the fuel system, well it got vapor lock and it turned off, right in the middle of an intersection. I turned the key to restart and nothing, no crank, no juice. I get out to push the car, when I hear a siren behind me and a female voice telling me to get back in my car, that she would push me. I turned around to stop her, as I didn't want a police push bar denting my bumper, but it was a tall beautiful officer from South Pasadena PD who pushed me and my car out of harm's way (Thanks Officer Ropopo). I thought the car would start after cooling off and checking all connectors, and it didn't. Had to do the AAA tow of shame.

I decided to call Stuart, who had helped me two years ago to trace a bad ground that impeded starting, he came to my house and after helping sort out the dirt in the fuel problem, we tried starting the car, but it would turn off, we messed with the wires, and it would turn on and off. He started tracing every single connection from the ignition switch, to the battery and coil. well, it turns out, that my NOS fuse box, had a defective or corroded solder in the terminal junction, so there was my 10 yrs old gremlin. The solder had come apart and it would lose power to the ignition. Being the hoarder that I am, we decided to go with a VGC used one I had. He replaced it, put all new fuses and vroooom!

Car is again turnkey and very smooth, he did tell me I have an exhaust leak and my car could be quieter. Lesson learned? NOS doesn't mean perfect. It may and will fail.

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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.

NON INFLUENCER APPROVED

[Erik G]

ugh - so frustrating. my 65 squareback would do similar, I could start it up every day no issue. if it had run more than a minute, I could not get it restarted for hours if I shut it off. No crank no click no nothing. I had to park on a hill or even just backwards in my own apartment carport and try to push it fast enough for a push start

It was a bad trans ground strap. It took me 2 new accelerator cables to figure that one out and most people will scratch their head wondering how an accelerator cable could possibly be related
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Stop dead photo links! Post your photos to The Samba Gallery!

[Mike Fisher]

Tram thought my plugged up stock exhaust w/Harley mufflers was causing my square to bog down.
It was plugged, but turned out to need a different ECU to actually cure the problem.
He resealed my engine/transmission/put in a new turn signal switch/installed my NOS passenger mirror etc!
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https://imgur.com/user/FisherSquareback/posts
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

[ataraxia]

If it's a mechanical or electrical part - I've had worse luck with NOS parts than new parts over the years.

Is this, by chance, the same Stuart that worked at Bill and Steve's back in the 80's?

[notchboy]