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I think I am about to buy a 1963 notchback but would like some feedback from vwtype3.org listees. This car drives but needs work on the brakes. The engine runs roughly and is very dribbly around the main bearing seal and pushrod tubes. It needs a respray badly (the existing paint is original from 1963). It needs a new front passenger seat as the original is missing. The dash is cracked. The original floor mat is there but quite deteriorated. Window rubbers ar showing their age. The rear seat needs re-covering but has a fold-out centre arm-rest. The driver's seat is perfect and original. The upholstery is "silver-beige" and the exterior paint is "pearl White" (L87). The rear right mudguard (fender) has a small ding in it which has broken the rear bullet reflector. Both bumper bars are untarnished but have small bends in them. It does not have a "wrap-around" dash and, although it has pull-push lights and wiper buttons, these are mounted on a black metal filler plug set in the pressed rectangular hole for the earlier push-button dash. It has a chassis number (VIN) of 247098 which puts its Wolfsburg birthdate as during the second week in September 1963. Although it was assembled in Australia, it was an early assembly with quite a low Australian content (by 1968 this had built up to around 75-80%). It was sold a few weeks ago to a local wheeler and dealer at a deceased estate auction. The elderly gentleman who died owned this car from new. It has spent all its life living in the relatively dry Darling Downs where I live and which is wheat- growing country many miles from the sea and has a relatively low rainfall with many, many mild sunny days most of the year. So, as a result, there is absolutely NO RUST - not under the battery, in the door pillars, at the bottom of the doors, in the mudguards (fenders), in the floor, nowhere!!! I already have two VWs (a 1969 VW 411 and a 1992 VW T3 Syncro van) and really shouldn't buy it. Yet, I feel sorry for it. There is virtually no other interest in the car. It may be sent to the crushers or end up at the back of a local wreckers yard dying a slow death among the weeds as occasionally parts are sold from it. Yet, it has only done 123,000 miles! The man wants AU$300 for it (about US$150) but I think he would take AU$250 (US$125) if I offered him AU$200 (US$100). One of my other cars would have to sleep outside! What do you other Type3 fans think????????? Simon Glen Toowoomba, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org