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On 9 Sep 2003, at 21:20, Dave Hall wrote: > Congratulations to the new parents - I expect you now agree with me > that Type 3s find their own owners. ;-) I thought of Dave often in this purchase. His insight seems to be correct in many ways: 1) Type 3s seem to find their owners, not vice versa. 2) Good condition cars we find now tend to be those bought by older people who paid the extra money for the deluxe versions (ie AT) and then never used them much. 3) I need his advice now to fill in all those little paint dings. > I think '71 is the best late year - still chrome indicators and > classic steering wheel, but extra space in front and ventilation at > the rear. They must almost be from the same litter - my chassis is > 3612 200 959, born 5th May 1971. Yes, I think '71 was the best year. Mine was closer to the end of May. When you look at the production plate in the trunk, how do you figure the week? IE, if Jan 2 was a friday, was a car built that day built in the last week of the previous year or the first week of the new year? > Mind you, mine is making me work hard at the moment. If you > haven't thought of anti-corrosion measures yet, get some oil or wax > solution into the inner and outer rockers before long, and spray it > around behind the rear fenders, around the rear lower seat-belt > mount reinforcing plate, the front inner wheel wells, the spare > wheel well, airbox tray and anywhere else that it may already be > rusting! It's a lot easier than replacing metal. There must be a good product which some of you have experience with. What is good to spray in to prevent rust? No doubt any old oil is better than nothing, but there must be something better that has been formulated to prevent rust. Ideally this something would be prepetually runny, so it would never harden and crack and would always be seeping into the cracks. BTW, I fixed the seat today. My dad and I took the carpet out and we actually found the 2 AT selector brushes under them, unbroken! Thanks to John, Keith, and Russ for the offers on the brushes, but all I need now are the 2 black countersunk, raised head M5 Phillips head screws. Anyone got a pair of these? Then we removed the passenger seat and looked it over to see if we could figure out what might be freezing the driver's seat. In the end, I discovered that the total motion that I had was just what the plastic slide would move before the ribs in its underside limited its motion. So the slide was sticking to the seat, and moving with the seat. I could see both ends and the middle moving together. We ended up spraying in there with WD-40 and I sat in the seat and moved it back and forth until it broke free. Everything's fine now. BTW, on each inner slide rail there is an additional inner stop which is screwed in place. This stop keeps the seat from going as far back as it would otherwise; without this extra stop you get about 3/4' more travel to the rear. I know that these were on my 68 and on all my 71s, but I seem to recall looking for them on the microfilm and not finding them. Does anyone know why they are there or when VW started installing them? Were they used in all cars, or just for certain markets? Was this just to assure the rear passengers of more leg room? - Jim Adney Madison, WI USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org