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Its home now, and although Im about to disappear on a vacation and the invasion I got the left side fenders off. The car got T boned (MMMMMMmmmmmmmmm T Bone!) at some point shoving the drivers side door pillar in , bending the dash and door and even the rear door pillar got crushed in a bit. I know something happened when I noticed the bent top of the door but it got nailed rather nasty early in its life, and of course that's where it rusted out the worst. Thanks to Shawn Albertins liberal Sawzall policy I DO have the entire door pillar with the rocker to repair it properly though! So this really doesn't bother me too much. I do need to get all my sheetmetal in hand before I go any farther though, hopefully the guys at the DDB can at least get me sections for the rear in front of the wheel wells. Additionally, Id love to get a hold of the **** that though running the wiring harness through the rocker in a tube would be a GOOD idea!!! It turns out that the early and later 3 bolt hinge rockers are the same except for a little crease that is stamped in the top section on the later 65 and newer ones. The ARE interchangeable!! At some point, although it only has 33Kmi on it the engine will need to be rebuilt. I has a bearing noise on startup and Im finding that Delivery vehicle service is indeed tough on cars :) Keith Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 golf "Winterat" 93 RX7 "Redstur" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~