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HELLO TOBY I LIVE IN JOHANNESBURG, WITH A POPULATION OF ABOUT 11 MILLION PEOPLE. SPARE PARTS ARE REALY A PROBLEM HERE AS THE ONLY PLACES THAT SELL AIR-COOLED STUFFIES ARE BEETLE ORIENTATED. WHAT IS THE STORY WITH TYPE3 DOORS ? ARE THEY ALWAYS THE FIRST TO GO ? CAN THEY BE BOUGHT AS REPODUCTIONS AS I'M SURE YOU DON'T GET THEM AS NOS ? TO IMPORT WOULD PROPABLY COST ME MORE THAN WHAT I BOUGHT IT FOR NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.BEING A LOVER OF ALL AIR-COOLED VW'S I ADORE TYPE2'S SPLITSCREENS. AS WE ALL KNOW PRODUCTION STOPPED IN THE LATE '60'S RIGHT? WRONG! IN 1975 VWSA BUILT 849 CKD KITS OF THE BELOVED BUS, AND PICK-UPS, AND WAS SOLD SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE UGLY BAY-WINDOWS (WHO WANTS TO DIFFER?) THEY HAD ALL ROUND WINDOWS LIKE THE PRE '64 MODELS. BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT, BET YOU DON'T CARE IN ANY WAY HAY? RENIER '69 QUASSIE '96 GOLF1 (CHICO) (........AND SOME KOREAN HYUNDAI BUT THAT DOESN'T COUNT RIGHT? EVER IF IT IS NEW AND COST ME AN ARM AND AN LEG) Welcome! Hope we can help with parts -- just don't ask for body parts as they are kinda expensive to ship :) Where in SA do you live? I've never been there, Djibouti was the closest I've been to Africa though I would LOVE to go on a photographic savanna safari (I like cheetahs and the other big cats). Toby Erkson air_cooled_nut@pobox.com <-- Please use this address for email responses '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/ ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI Author: type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE_MIME Date: 2/19/98 8:21 AM I AM NEW HERE AND WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OTHER TYPE 3 OWNERS HERE IN SOUTH-AFRICA PEOPLE DON'T KNOW TYPE 3'S, AND THEY LOOK STRANGE AT MY 69 SQUAREBACK. AND SPARE PARTS! WHAT SPARE PARTS? HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU. RENIER ------------IMnaThEel1ncdoR9RaPCO9hrhTeI6dOaN--