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Re: [T3] 63 notchback purchase??


In a message dated 11/29/01 4:58:03 AM Central Standard Time, 
simonglen@bigpond.com writes:

<< Subj:     [T3] 63 notchback purchase??
 Date:  11/29/01 4:58:03 AM Central Standard Time
 From:  simonglen@bigpond.com (Simon Glen)
 Reply-to:  simonglen@bigpond.com
 To:    type3@vwtype3.org
 
 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.
 
 
That seems a fair price for a car with so many troubles. It really has got 
troubles, the
least of which is the brakes. But no doubt the PO wouldn't recognize this and 
would claim that the car was in wonderful shape.

You can't go wrong at such a price. It probably would make a good replacement 
for
your 411, which I understand is extremely difficult to find parts for.

Don Garies
dgaries808@aol.com







Don Garies
dgaries808@aol.com

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