My 1968 Squareback

[Bryan67]

I`ve owned 3 Fastbacks, several Buses, and Bugs, and I currently own a Thing, and a 63 Bug project. but never a Squareback. Not by choice though. It just never happened..... until now. I wasn't even looking but this popped up on Facebook marketplace over the weekend. It looked familiar but the person that listed the ad wasn't the owner. They were doing it to help them out. After contemplating it for awhile, thinking things like "I don`t need it" and " I already have enough cars"... I called the number. It turns out I was right. I knew the owner fairly well. In fact I tried to buy it a few years ago before buying my 63 Bug project. But he wasn't selling. Now he was. I went to look at it the next day and couldn't say no. It`s a very clean 1968 Squareback that he had did a semi restoration over time. Repaint, new interior, rubber, refreshed engine with Solex carbs and rebuilt transaxle, and rechromed bumpers. It has the original black plates and dealer frames, along with service record and receipts from Vista Volkswagen in Goleta, California. My friend was the second owner. Its nice having something that doesn't need a full restoration for a change. I will be doing a few things to it like a slight lowering of the front, possibly a set of Fuchs, or Pedrini`s, a Berg shifter, and probably a smaller steering wheel (I`m 6'2"). But nothing crazy. Here`s a few pictures I took after I got it home.

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[gt1953]

VEry nice. Keep it stock as possible.
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72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold})

[Bryan67]

[Sqrbckguy38]

Looks really great. I live the rims, and the shifter. Looks really great. Going to leave the Solex duals on it?
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It's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.
69 Square needs love, even after 15 years
70 Fasty former dd, now my daughter's
67 Beetle, Opal

[Bryan67]

[Gooberschmitt]

Really love the look of your Squareback. Looks so original. I like what you have done to modify it subtly. I’m still looking for one over here in the UK. Hopefully one will come up as nice as yours!

[Bryan67]

[Bryan67]

Soooo.... a few weeks ago someone rode up on a bike at night and dumped paint stripper all over my Squareback. It`s put me in a pretty bad place. As sure as I am of who was behind it, I have no proof at all. Nothing showed up on camera. And I have done nothing to deserve this. Anyway. I finally got a weak settlement from State farm, and am moving on with getting the whole car repainted. I started taking it apart today, and it will go in to the body shop next week.

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[Mike Fisher]

Sorry Brian, the same thing happened to a Black guy's squareback in Eugene, OR!
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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

[ALLWAGONS]

Mean People suck!
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Thanks to my Tesla driving neighbors, I feel more relaxed driving my SUBURBAN and old VW's.

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[squaretobehip]

Awful stuff. Hopefully those donations help!
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[Bobnotch]

You just can't have anything nice any more. It sucks.
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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

[Air-Cooled Head]

That just sucks! But karma is a bitch, too.
Now you have an excuse to go full cal-look.
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[Bryan67]

The rebuild begins. I really did not want another project on my hands...

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[calvinater]

[Bryan67]

So of course, once you start digging in... you find issues. Nothing really major, but there was some rust, and a really bad repair under the right rear fixed widow. whoever painted it before shoved a piece of cardboard in the rust holes and bondoed over it. A small hole on the body at the bottom of the front right fender (Pretty normal), and some surface corrosion under the brake fluid reservoir. Again, pretty normal. But I can`t ever just do something halfway. So, I`m also doing new interior, wiring, a ton of rubber and detailing the engine, and powder coating the tin and a bunch of other parts. since the windshield is coming out I found a really nice original dash pad to replace the repop one in the car now.

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[Bryan67]

Update... The deeper you dig, the more you find.

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[Bryan67]

As time drags on at the body shop. I stripped the engine down to a long block. Did a deep clean and pondered doing a bigger engine build. But since it is a good running recent 1600 rebuild, I decided to leave it alone (For now). So I rebuilt the carbs, upgraded the linkage rods, bead blasted and powder coated the parts, and reassembled it with some fresh zinc plated hardware and an alternator conversion. And converted to a standard air filter element.

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[andybla]

keep up the good work!!

[old_man]

What air element is that? I am curious in the conversion.