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He's shoots... its good... he scores!!! Kudos, Jason! Jason 68 Notch ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jason Weigel <notchboy@home.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:45:55 -0700 >Well about a month ago a guy at the local flaps had a leed for me on an >old square in a field. I soon followed up and found it to be a 65! This >is one of those Southern Cali finds where all the rubber is toast but >the car is rock solid with some surface rust. I wasnt impressed at first >as you will see from the pics. But when I opened the engine lid I found >a compleet motor! Everything from the back pressure fuel dohicky(65 >only) to the aircleaner wing nut. The underside was just as compleet >with correct muffler to fresh air hook ups. On the inside I found the >upper plastic strips for the rear cargo area, compleet good shape rear >panels and two thirds of the fronts original panels! The car also has >the one piece metal hinge guard with light for the back hatch. > >Even though I found all this cool stuff on the car and in decent shape >It is by no means a driver. Its unknown ailment parked it 15-20 years >prior. The guess is electrical. The pan is totaly shot under the back >seat. The rear end is 4lug and the rear hatch is from a later modle. Oh >and the front hood was rotten and the front end has been hit-repaired >with a 68-69 front pannel and hit again causing the front right to be >out of line. >The plan is to swap pans as I have a solid 71 square donner pan for it. >Paint it primmer for awile and get her running. I will keep the stock >theme as much as possible. I would like to get the interior up to 65 >standards. I have spares of all that is missing so it should be nice. Al >in all not a bad score for $300 I thought! >late >jason >http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/2789089/995601926509_Front_65.jpg >http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/2789089/995601925954_ftrunk_65.jpg >http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/2789089/995601927889_65_case_.jpg >http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/2789089/995601925256_1500_eng_bits.jpg > >http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/2789089/995601927111_the_yard.jpg > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe > >