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Im excited for this one! All type 3s, and all aircooleds need to be saved! You are more than welcome to save any and all aircooleds, we will keep watching! 🤘
The recent aircooled focus is why I subscribed. Not many channels that do this and those that do have low production quality. High Production Quality + Aircooled = WIN!
How cool, I remember taking a slammed green Fastie for a test drive about a decade ago. This thing would 100% be scrap metal here in New Zealand, no way you'd get that through a "warrant of fitness" without spending about $10,000. What are the legalities around road worthiness there? Can you run anything as long as its insured? That's the dream.
It depends on the state! They’re all different. I’m from New Hampshire where there are stricter inspection laws; here in Tennessee, there is NO inspection 😂
That awesome that you were able to get that thing (I mean type 3) running so quickly. But the best part of the video was the dealer badge on the back " Volunteer Tullahoma ". Sounds like it just came home. To Tennessee that is.
John I had a new 1968 type3fastback when I was 17 and got on the Vail ski patrol and drove from Denver to Vail every weekend to my job nice to see you restoring one mine was black with red interior fun and games going over Loveland Pass in winter
Your channel inspires me to get the tools out and get to work on my 73 Beetle. It's a runner and just needs some TLC. Your approach to your projects is just like mine.......get them running and have some fun. Keep up the good work.
Dude - love your channel and your ambition. Nothing wrong with an air-cooled focus - resonates with us older veedub nuts. Anyway, you're a braver man than me going after that crusty Type 3. The Fastbacks are cool, but wow - so much rust on that specimen - looking forward to seeing how the project develops - will make for great RU-vid watching. 🙂
I live in Memphis, and I worked as a scale buyer at a salvage yard for several years. I bought and resold a car that was identical to that Type 3. I bought two of them from the same seller. One was a '71, and the other was a '73 if I remember right, and I got titles for them and resold both of them to the same buyer. They were both full of VW parts that I made a ton of money selling online.This would have been about ten years ago, and I did manage to get the car to run for a few minutes before I resold it. I wonder if it's the same car. It has to be. It had too many unique features.
Damn good VW type 3! Love & admiration from the Philippines! Take a look at the Brazilian Gurgel. It's a wild version of the Thing! Keep them rolling Brother!
I’d do a type 1 conversion 4 in narrowed linkpin beam but if you wanna do it cheap the front of type 3s are splined like the beetle rear and can slam them cheap
Good video I’m sure I’ll be watching again after just buying a type 3 Squareback that’s been sitting for 10 years I haven’t even brought home yet supposedly has a bad fuel pump
I have one just like it, it's in slightly better shape rust wise and still has fuel injection set up, it's up for sale in central lower Michigan 1969 $1,850 OBO marketplace
Brah. That patina is killer. Please don’t ruin it with a paint job. Jaaa jk I know you are smarter than that. Brah. Air cooled is king. Fast backs are rare. I have never seen a VW channel work on one. I don’t like late model VWs but fast backs are so unique I think it can look sick. With a slammed suspension and some sick wheels it will look dope. Btw I make exception for late model buses cuz split windows are too expensive now.
here in the USA they used twin carbs through (I believe) 1967, then went to injection. I used to go and find the carb cars, then swap the parts to a bus or bug. (modification required) I also did more than one injection conversion to a bug. It ran VERY well.
When I met my wife she drove one of these POS. It had one of the worlds first EFI systems and it was always breaking down. We would have to pay to have it towed to the dealership and the first thing they always did was plug it into an EFI diagnostic machine which was always $65 just to find out what was wrong. Then they repaired it, charged us alot, and sent us on our way. God I hated that car. Eventually we had enough & traded it for a 2yo Ford Maverick sedan. !
