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I'm looking for advice on how to recycle my '71 Squareback. It starts great, runs great, stops great -- oh yeah, and is falling apart due to rust. I'd like to save the engine, transmission, front suspension, brakes, and a few other odds & ends of spares for my '69. After these major bits are removed, and I pop off the doors & trunks & fenders and gut the interior and remove the glass, how tough is it to use a sawz-all to divide the remainder into pieces small enough and light enough to be lifted by two people? I'd like to simply take the carcass bits to the recycling center. I imagine that the top would come off pretty easily by slicing it at the pillars, and I could probably play connect-the-dots with rust holes under the back seat and in other spots. Anybody done this evil deed before? Since I want to yank out suspension and brakes, it won't be a rolling chassis; I don't imagine the local "haul your heap" folks would enjoy picking it up. Any thoughts? (If anyone is in the area and would like to take a look at the car and can convince me that it's worth restoring and they've got the time and resources to do it, I'd be glad to discuss a sale. I do not, however, expect that this is very likely. The car is pretty much beat.) :( -Greg ................................................................ '63 Beetle Ann Arbor, Michigan '69 Automatic Squareback http://www.vwtype3.org '70 Seven-passenger Bus mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ................................................................ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe