[T3] 3602066435

[Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>]

<x-flowed>That's the VIN for my "new" 1970 Variant L.

Yes folks, I finally got it home this past Sunday. It was a pretty long 
trip picking it up, but I wont go into any detail about that here. I'll 
just say that my Audi pulled strongly, despite a 1780 kg heavy trailer!

Instead, I'll tell you a bit about the car. As mentioned, it is a 1970 
Variant L. It was built on Oct. 29 1969, is painted in Tiefseegr?n (Deep 
sea green), code L66B. It has a very nice chocolate brown interior. Not 
a single rip or tear in either the front or rear seats, or the door/side 
panels. The headliner is a bit torn in the rear, and needs a very good 
cleaning.

The car has traveled approx. 154.000 kms, but is quite rusty. It has the 
typical fender rust (upper rearmost areas on front, lower areas in the 
rear), a lot of rust in the left rear inner fender, and some rust in the 
front luggage area.

The engine is a regular dual-carb T-code engine, apparently this unit 
has only done 25.000 km since rebuild. It start very nice and has a nice 
idle when warmed up. The big drawback is a really ugly Monza-style 
exhaust system, I'll see if I can do something about that..

Other than the rust, I need to do a brake job on this car, it has a 
couple of broken brake lines in the rear, so I guess i'm putting in new 
copper lines all around. New rubber hoses would be nice as well. Also 
the electrical system needs to be looked at. Currently, it has one tail 
light, no front parking lights, only the highbeams work, and both turn 
signals and emergency flashers are out of order. I guess that a couple 
of relays are shot, in addition to a whole lot of light bulbs. I'm also 
going to install an alternator.

So, after the rust, brakes and lights are looked after, I plan to get 
some plates on this wagon so I can use it as an extra car for a couple 
for years, then it will probably be parted out in favor of my 73 Variant L.

Other plans include a lowered suspension, new rims and tires (I don't 
want the stock ones) and maybe get rid of some surface rust and maybe, 
if I bother, paint it flat primer red.

Pics can be seen at http://public.fotki.com/volkswagen/variant_2/

I have 2 questions right now, probably a couple more later.

1) Does any of you know the exact lengths of the brake lines all over 
the car? Are they included in the microfiche? The modern electronic 
catalogue does not include the lengths for such an old car.

2) Is the steering wheel without the horn half-ring correct for the 1970 
model year? I'm going to have it replaced by a Nardi wooden steering 
wheel, so this wheel will probably be up for sale, if anyone is 
interested ;)

PerL
73 Variant L
70 Variant L

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