Good to know. I'm on the type 3 e-mail list too.
Colin, I knew you had a squareback but wasn't sure if you considered yourself an expert.
I'll be going to look at the car this w/e. If I like what I see I'll probably have it delivered the following weekend.
Let's get this forum buzzing a bit. There seems to be a similar community in the type 3 world as in the bus world. Not quite as hippy but still a community. The Beetle scene kind of sucks. The type 1 list on here is slow and the late model list on T/S its totally agressive. Reminds me of the locker room when the wrestlers were in there in high school.
I just wanna fix my car.
Am I crazy?
- jeromeaircooled
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- Amskeptic
- IAC "Help Desk"
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As you travel the internet, be an Itinerant Air-Cooled Ambassador, offer a link to the site. Also, out in the real world be alert to air-cooled VW people. I just met a prospective member today, driving her new-to-her '78 Beetle convertible (ran out of gas), and she now has the site address scribbled on a piece of paper.jeromeaircooled wrote: Let's get this forum buzzing a bit.
When I get the Squareback out of storage later this summer, it is going to do some of the Itinerary. I will update here and . . . . elsewhere, its travel manners to help generate some responses. They are fun plucky cars.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- tristessa
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If I can ever get my plate cleared of enough other crap that I can finally get *working* on my Fastback I'll be more active in here. Poor car has been mostly hibernating for the last .. sheesh, going on four years now. Which sucks, it's a pretty car and I'd like to get it running while the original owner (who was a friend of my mother-in-law) is still walking this mortal coil.
I did build an engine for it winter before last, made up of 90% (plus or minus) lightly used parts I scavenged from the DDB shop when I was working there, and I even got as far as hanging the engine in the car .. but don't have any induction system on there. I either need to scrounge up a set of "stock" 32PDSIT carburators for it, or find a non-fscked-with manifold pressure sensor and a non-butchered injection wiring harness for the D-jetronic. Or say "screw it all" and put a Subaru engine in there just to piss everyone off.
I did build an engine for it winter before last, made up of 90% (plus or minus) lightly used parts I scavenged from the DDB shop when I was working there, and I even got as far as hanging the engine in the car .. but don't have any induction system on there. I either need to scrounge up a set of "stock" 32PDSIT carburators for it, or find a non-fscked-with manifold pressure sensor and a non-butchered injection wiring harness for the D-jetronic. Or say "screw it all" and put a Subaru engine in there just to piss everyone off.
Remember, only YOU can prevent narcissism!
- jeromeaircooled
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I think Notchboy on the Samba has an injection system. If you can deal with him. I see them in the classifieds over there occasionally. You know, we've got a mechanic in our area who works specifically on ACVW's. He's great for parts but hates FI. I bet he's got a few he's ripped off of customers cars hanging around. Let me know if/when you're interested. He would be especially willing since the injection system would be going out of the area. He would never see it again.
71 Westfalia with a 1600 dual port engine
74 Standard Beetle with the same
72 FI squareback
Keg of IPA in the fridge
74 Standard Beetle with the same
72 FI squareback
Keg of IPA in the fridge