Re: [T3] Parting out 68 Sqaureback

["Simon Stone" <simon@watts36.freeserve.co.uk>]

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From: "Greg Merritt" <gregm@vwtype3.org>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] Parting out 68 Sqaureback


>
> > Fastback that needs new floors and front quarter panels, if it had been
a US
> > car you would have parted it out years ago!!!!!!!!!
>
> Simon, if you were going to go through the trouble of shipping a
> car from the U.S., why wouldn't you bother spending far less $$$ up front
> to get a solid, unrusted car?  A sub-$500 rusted VW may cost thousands of
> dollars in parts, labor, equipment, suppylies and time to make solid
> again; why not spend $2000 up front on a never-rusted car from a milder
> climate?
>
> I never said I was going to ship a car from the US, all I was trying to
get across to the rest of the people on this newsgroup is that it seams a
shame to see a nice car in a breakers yard.

I have been looking for an early Squareback to restore for some years and
the only ones I have found here in the UK are mint condition ones that have
only had one or two owners for about Ł5000 ($7500) or ones that the only
panel that could be saved for about Ł1000 ($1500)

I enjoy restoring cars, I do it as a labour of love. I don't try to make
them show cars, I just try to keep them on the road for everybody else to
enjoy.

All old cars in the UK have had there fair shair of rust, it's just down to
people like me to keep them on the road.


Simon.
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