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Hello list, I picked up the Fastback today, and I have lots of questions, I will put them in emails to follow this one. The chassis number on it is 311 2064191 can anybody tell me when it was made? I went to pick it up in the afternoon, and the car went quite well, up until it stopped dead! ;-) I noticed that the brakes were sticking on, the handbrake and clutch need adjustment and it needs a good tune-up as well but it went quite well considering it has been sitting around for a while. After it stopped, I spend about 1 1/2 hours fiddling trying to find the problem- it would crank but not fire. Initially I thought it was the battery because it didn't have enough juice to fire it up, so I went home with my mum (who was following behind me luckily) and got the battery out of my beetle. It would crank on that but still it didn't fire. I gave up in the end and towed it home. When I got in the driveway I noticed it was leaking fuel, but that was easily fixed as the fuel pump cover was not tightened down. I got out my multimeter and started testing the ignition system when I noticed two wires on the + and - terminals of the coil. I traced these inside the car, and under the carpet to the front passenger side. It was here that the bare wires were shorting out and had melted themselves together and onto the foot rest. After removing the wires it fired straight up! I am going to give it a good tune up and oil change tomorrow, and hopefully I will get time to go to my VWFLAPS to pick up some bits and pieces. Ben Doughney '75 1200L '63 1200 - Ringo '72 1600TL http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/