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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Let's put it this way - If it's left-hand drive, I'll give you $125 just for the driver's seat. I hope that answers your question. Wouldn't September 1963 be a '64 model? I'm not sure since it's Australian built... Regards, Everett everettb@thesamba.com http://www.thesamba.com > 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 > </x-charset>