Re: body work on my squareback

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm.jf.intel.com>]

Add this to the category of "Doesn't make sense".  If the frame wasn't damaged 
then why pull the body out?  Why would it fall apart?  I think you need to go to
a couple of body shops and get opinions from them.  Now, maybe they meant that 
the body panels themselves are so damaged that it would be cost prohibitive to 
repair them i.e. just get replacement panels (for the T3 that means from a junk 
yard or fiberglass ;)

A body swap ain't cheap (gotta find a good body, take every thing apart, swap, 
put everything together...can you say, "I'm sending my bodyman to Hawaii for 
vacation after he finishes the swap?")
     Toby Erkson, air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L
     Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/

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Subject: body work on my squareback
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    10/17/97 11:16 AM

Hey, I recently purchased a '71 Sqbk.  It has a newly rebuilt engine, but
it was rearended.  There was no frame damage but when I took it to a body
shop they said that if they tried to pull the body out it would basically
fall apart.  He advised me to try to find another body.  So here are my
questions:

  1) If I do look for another body, which years should i consider? (ie,
would a '67 body fit)

  2) how difficult whould it be to swithc the bodies?

Any other advice anyone would like to offer would be wonderful.  Thanks so
much.

Elli