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This is great news. Good fortune was smiling on you & yes indeed you have a very GOOD friend. As others have suggested, stay one the list, ask questions never mind how they may sound(simple or whatever) & get the Bentely manual. Congratulations. Tom '68 FB (Thumper) '70 Bug On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:44:21 -0700 (PDT) John Gatten <gatman1@yahoo.com> writes: >Hello there, > I am brand new to the list, stationed in Germany, and I have >just aquired my first VW. I have done a lot of reading on bugs but >when I saw this car I just had to have it. (I'm a little long winded >but bear with me) A GOOD friend (you will understand why he is a GOOD >friend in minute) told me about a fast back in a garage that an old >man wanted to unload. I said, "great" and we went and looked at it. >In his garage sat a 1971 Fastback, with an automatic transmission, and >95000 kilometers on the odometer (approx. 57000 miles). I inquired >about the price and the old man said "You can have it. I'm too old to >fool with it and I just want it out of my garage after all these >years! (15 years to be exact) Yep, I got if for free and German spec >cars can be shipped back to the U.S. as is if they are over 25 years >old!!!!! WooooHoooo!!!!! > The car had been vandalized slightly and the old man moved it >into the garage and did not touch it for 15 years. Someone had thrown >house paint and glue on the passenger side and broke the passenger >door window. (He gave me the new window for it too) Folks, aside >from a couple of spots of surface rust the car is perfect. The >interior looks like it just rolled off the show room floor. I pulled >the carpet back and I cannot tell you how new the floor looks. I am >more and more amazed each time I explore this thing. > Not knowing very much about Type 3's I was hoping you folks could >answer some questions for me. How rare is this car? I have never seen >any old VW with a fully automatic tranny?!?! How rare is it to find >one in this kind of shape? I put a charged battery from a friends bug >in it and every thing electrical in it works to include the clock? >Please, give me some direction here. I initially wanted a VW to fix >up and have a hot rod. I don't think I want to do that with this car, >right? > >I'll cut it off for now and if anyone has any suggestions, tips, or >anything please E-mail me or post. > >Thanks, > Matt Gatten > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]