Re: [T3] 61 notch RHD, value?

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

Come on, Al,  who do you think got the RHD models I sent you
brochure pictures of?  (You did get them OK, didn't you?).   UK,
Australia, Ireland, Malta, Nigeria, South Africa, and many countries
without their own car producers imported the VW 1500.  Take a look
at my web-site and look at Brian Johnston's 1962 RHD Gulf blue
Notch.

I couldn't comment on the authenticity of this '61, but Australia is
mostly a pretty dry country, so its survival is not that surprising.

I believe Canada was the source of most of the early 'grey' imports
of Type 3s to the USA, but I expect there are VERY few '61s left
anywhere in the world now.  The German Type 3 Club (Typ3 Liebhaber
e.V.) had a story of no. 54 being found (on Greg's Type 3 pages in
English, I think).

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Big Al <awpresley@hbu.edu>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>; hoopty@pipeline.com.au
<hoopty@pipeline.com.au>
Date: 18 September 1998 14:37
Subject: Re: [T3] 61 notch RHD, value?


>>I've come across
>>a 61 Notch, orig german import, orig black
>>with black interior (?).  Don't really need another restorer
>>but I'm *really* thinking about it..alternatively could pass on...
>>Not rusty, eminently restorable,
>>some NOS parts.  How rare is a Notch this early
>>and what would you put is purchase value at (from min to max?)?
>
>Hello Rob,
>
>I would not value it very high because it is probably a fake.
>
>I would suspect a body swap on your car or a RHD conversion.
According to
>my records RHD Type-3s did not appear until 1964. I would seriously
doubt
>it is a 1961.
>
>Don't hold me as the all powerful reference, but I would go into
>negotiations with this in mind. Get an experienced body person
(hopefully
>VW experience) to look at the body work to see if he can see a
conversion
>and double check the body and chassis numbers. See if the chassis
number on
>the tunnel has been cut and rewelded into place.
>
>I'm not saying to NOT buy it, just don't believe it to be an
ORIGINAL 1961 RHD.
>
>Sounds like a cool car anyway. I wouldn't mind having it.
>
>Big Al
>
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>For your VW Type 3 cravings:
>http://www.autographica.com/vw
>
>Type Three Parts Book Online
>Type Three Cabriolet Prototype Project
>Rebus Project: 1962 Notchback Restoration
>
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