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What a great weekend. It was nice to meet Greg finally. Plus it was cool to
meet Tony, and see his car which is one of the nicest darkside Squarebacks
I've seen in a while. The pics don't even do justice to his beautiful paint,
which I believe he sprayed himself.
And, as always, it's good to hang with the dynamic darkside duo, Toby and
Brian. These are two guys that you don't have to tell to smoke 'em if you
got 'em.
How did you guys do in the show? Anyone take home some trophies? Greg,
Brian, Toby, Tony?
I think this show was the best I've seen ever. The biggest, baddest swap
meet I've seen yet. I think we all scored some good stuff. I noticed Greg
had some fan shrouds. I finally found a one piece fiberglass Type 3 front
end, and at a good price, $50. I also found a universal roof rack for $35
that is stamped made in Italy.
And the best deal of the day? A woman came up to me and asked If we were
from Oregon. I replied yes and told her the various cities for Toby, Brian
and myself. Once I mentioned that I was from Medford, she said she had moved
to California, but had a Fastback in Medford and that If I picked it up, I
could have it! And it's my favorite year, '69. I'm going to look at it today
or tomorrow.
What you may not notice in Greg's pics is the empty trailer in the back
ground. I wanted to pick up the $5 Fasty that I bought on eBay on the way
down, but it was buried in a car lot.
I did get to stop and look at it on the way down, and picked it up in
Redding, CA on the way home. It is one of the most rust free cars I've seen
in a while. The battery tray is completely solid. I couldn't find any
serious rust in any typical area either. The front windshield was out, so I
could see in the window channels (is that what they are called?), and they
are good. Rockers good too. The car is really pretty straight as well. It's
now safely stored at my dad's place.
At first I thought this car would be a good race car project, but it's in
such good shape it needs to be put back together. Would be a great
German-look Fastback.
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Phillip Bradfield
founder: southern oregon vw club: http://www.sovw.com
founder: das typ 3 projekt: http://www.dastyp3projekt.com
*new* 1972 Fastback - Some sort of blue, no motor, race car? Na.
German-look!
1969 Variant - Savanna beige, with 67 euro fenders, Type 4 2.1l
(someday...), speedster soon to have a bus dash
1968 Variant - Granada red (under gray primer), 1835 with dual 40 Dellortos,
soon to be full automatic!
*new* 1966 Variant - Pearl white - All stock, Pigalle interior, 1600 with
dual Solex carburetors now sporting Pedrini's!
1963 1500 - Ruby red (and rust, mostly rust really), 1600 with dual Solex
carburetors
19?? Sandrail - Primer, soon to have 2.3 EFI Turbo Ford motor
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