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My name's Constantino Tobio. I live in Queens, NY. I'm a 31 year old computer systems engineer. I bought my first Fasty, a '73, back in 1992 at the age of 19. I drove her until 1994, but she was too much of a hassle for a college kid to deal with and so I junked her- had no place to store it. But I cut my teeth on VWs then, and have had the bug (no pun intended) ever since. I currently own another '73 fasty, plus a 2003 VW Passat "Squareback" and am working on talking my wife into replacing her Hondasuzu Passporodeo with a Touareg. Now, with this new-fangled www we didn't really have when I was in college, coupled with the fact that I'm a grown up with a bit more cash these days,, I decided to embark upon a second foray and buy myself a replacement Fasty. type3.org and thesamba are as valuable a tool to me as my Bentley and my wrenches. Had these things existed 10 years ago, my first fasty would have lived on- if not in my possession, at least as someone else's project or parts. I do all my own repair work on cars (unless it's warranty work or insurance work). I worked at an auto parts store all through high school and early in college, and got a good background. I also learned a lot about mechanics. Many of them are dumb as a bag of bolts, and it's hard to find one that's any good AND honest. That said, my cars don't see mechanics whenever possible. I've done all my own oil changes since the age of 14, and I can diagnose problems in today's modern VWs also. I usually show up at the dealership if there's a problem with a complete diagnosis for them- I use their services to replace parts for me for free, that's pretty much it- and the service manager doesn't hate me surprisingly enough. Anyway, my goals for my Fasty is to do an OEM + restoration. Small improvements here and there, but I want to keep it as original as possible. The most radical change I'm looking at is maybe doing a leatherette-tweed seatcover setup rather than plain vinyl. Most of the original parts are in very good shape, and frankly as a purist I think VW did a good job on the look and drive of Fasty. I'm not shooting for "mirror under the car" show quality, but if I get a person or two saying "nice car" when they see her, I can feel pretty good. On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:10:22 -0600, Russ Wolfe <russw@classicvw.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:02, Jon Remers wrote: > > > BUT who are you all? > > > Well, John J. broke the ground, so here I go. > > I am Russ Wolfe, and am in my early 60's. I have been working on VW's > since 1964, and was a Factory machanic for almost 20 years. > I currently own 4 VW's, 3 of them are T-3's. The '71 is a daily driver > in the summer time, and the '66 has a fresh engine that needs to be > finished. > I got sidetracked by my current project. A 1964 Type 34 Ghia that I > recovered from Ebay. It had been hit in the front, and been sitting for > almost 40 years. It only has 40K miles on it. > At the present time, it is a Barney Rubble mobile. No engine, or > floorboards. The engine parts should be here the first of next week, and > I can start putting the engine back together. > My web site is http://classicvw.org Some of the pages haven't been > upgraded in a while. But most of the stuff in the gallery > http://classicvw.org/gallery > is up to date. > If you need a place to post pictures of your VW, let me know and I can > set you up with web space for free. > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '71 FB AT > '66 FB MT > '64 T34 (not running) > '65 T1 (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >