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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Bryan I think that's a great idea, T34's are a very rare and special car, and mechanically are the same as T3's. My recommendation is that you join the T34 registry then you could get the newsletter and a lot of helpful emails - they would also help you find a good T34. Check out www.type34.org Now, just to correct a few mistakes: > > After you get past the rubber problem, which is costly to repair (about > $1,000), you can start thinking of the rest of the restoration. If it needs > anything substantial, particularly heater boxes, forget it and go onto > something else. Heater boxes are made into the rocker panels of a Type 34. It's not the heater boxes but the heater channels the same as on T3's. > Any damage to the rocker panels is not > repairable. It is replaceable, however. But that means that you need two Type > 34 bodies to make one good one. Since only about 4,500 Type 34's were made, Ahem!, 42,000 Were made and if you were to join the registry you would get all the info you could handle for free. > you'll > find it hard to replace. There is some talk about using VW 411's and 412's as > parts > cars for a Type 34. But don't count on that. Walk away from any Type 34 with > rust > in the rocker panels, because that's as bad as bad can be. > Here the situation is the same as T3's some rust is reasonable .. Herman ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>