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Well to start with you can plan on rebuilding the ENTIRE brake system, new tires and battery, rebuild and clean out the entire fuel system. If the motor got hot enough to burn up the pistons that quickly something drastic was wrong and the bearings are no doubt damaged too as well as a warped ( cracked heads. difficult to tell how bad but Id plan on a complete rebuild if you want a reliable car. On the bright note it sounds like the ideal car for investing this work in and well worth while. You dont have to invest anything in the body!! Keith ---------- > From: Tpstr@aol.com > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: [T3] Restoring a Fastback > Date: Monday, March 29, 1999 8:15 PM > > Hello all. I've been lurking on this list for a few months, but am now > finally getting around to doing the project I signed up for. Here's a > lengthy, but slightly funny story. My dad has a '67 Fastback with 40K miles > sitting in my grandmother's garage. In the early 70's, it gave my mother (in > particular) all kinds of trouble, so my dad parked it in the garage and just > left it for 10+yrs. When I was a teenager in 1981, we kicked around the idea > of letting me drive it for school. We worked on it a little while, got it > started and running. Noticed the tires were awfully low on air, went to > parent's to get tire guage. Both of us went inside for some unknown reason, > left it running (hadn't started in 10 years, why kill it now and not have it > restart). Come back outside less than 1 minute later, car's gone. Stolen, > Abducted, Robbed. Hasn't run in years, but it's taken. Must be really > desperate thieves. Here's the humorous part. > > Get a phone call three weeks later "How much do you want for the Fastback? I'm > a VW collector" Ask where is car and how did you find it? It's parked > halfway down 12 mile long, no exit, Interstate bridge west of New Orleans > (where I live, found us through license check). Go out on bridge, find car, > tow it back to grandma's. Ironic in the 6 mile walk the thieves had back to > civilization. :) Thieves burn up pistons on Interstate. Father takes motor > out of body, changes pistons and stops. (Another long story) Car sits from > 1981-present. > > Now here's the question. Are there any things in particular I should check > out before trying to rI his Fastback with checkered past? Upon visual > inspection, there is no apparent rust to the body, the motor looks in decent > shape. I think I'm contemplating getting it running again. Anything I > should be aware of in a Fastback that has run once in 25 years? > > Thanks for listening, > Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe