Re: [T3] 63 notchback purchase??

[Rob Carpenter <brnagn7@yahoo.com>]

What you mean to tell me your 'considering' this buy??

I would say jump on it in a heart-beat, here in calif.
they sell junked up notches for like $2500 or so.

Rob
'63 Notch
--- Simon Glen <simonglen@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
>
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