Re: [T3] Hello & Notch Choice ?'s

[Tunaitis@aol.com]

In a message dated 04/17/2001 11:09:12 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rcgates@americanengr.com writes:

<< Car 2 is supposed to run.  Also 7+ years from a rebuild < 1K miles on
<< rebuild.  The engine is stock.  The car is in general rustier, needs pans
<< but has a solid roof.

    Hello Robert!  Here's my two cents:  go with the car that has the solid 
roof.  The roof is probably the single most difficult section of the car to 
get right when it comes to body work.  Repairing the other car would be a 
major undertaking.   If the Car 1 has a rocker cut off already, its rust may 
be more extensive than it seems.  At least Car 2 is intact enough to assess 
the car as a whole.  It's difficult to estimate the work involved in 
reassembling a car dismantled by somebody else.  At least by going with an 
intact car you'll know better what your up against; you're the one turning 
the wrench both ways.  
    In general, after close inspection and comparison, go with the car that 
has been monkeyed with the least.  Chances are a car that has a jigsaw 
sunroof also hides plenty of other abuses that are difficult to right again.  
    For instance, my Notch changed hands quite a few times before I got it, 
and at least one of the owners was clearly insane!!  You've never seen 
overspray like this!  Even the mangled fuseblock wiring is a putrid 
orangepeeled red!  
    Today while cleaning the floor to prep for rustproofing, I spent most of 
my time cleaning up great globs of liquid nails construction adhesive that 
had been used to glue household pile carpet all over the place.  Arrgh!!  

    I guess every car will have its own unforeseen challenges! (But it's 
worth it!)
                Good luck!

        --- Mike T.

    1964 1500S Notchback w/sunroof
    1965  German spec Beetle
    2000  New Beetle GLS     
   

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