69 Notch Auto discovered and restoration

My wife's dream car has always been an 60's Notch. She has discovered one in Watsonia that was with the same owner for 35 years. Left a note in the letter box and four days later it is sitting in our driveway. Still on it's original registration and regularly serviced it has a rust free floor pan but rust in a few of the outer panels. We plan on a full rust repair and respray as well as get the engine back up to a presentable condition.

I've just spent a few weeks reading up on Type 3's and begun the restoration by rekitting the carbs and replacing all the fuel lines.

Just pulled off the right rear guard as this is the worst of the rust. Panel needs a lot of work so looking for a replacement. Inner guards/ wheel arch needs rust repairs but not terminal.

The car is a 1969 Automatic. Drives really nicely apart from the leaking fumes into the car due to heater pipes being off and an original engine compartment seal. Chassis plate starts with 3191200XX. Just how rare is this combination?

Does anyone know a source of good second hand or NOS rear quarter panels for a 69 Notch? Are there other rust repair panels available?

Has anyone used the rust repair panels by this company?

http://www.retrorods.net.au/rustrepairs.html

Pic of the old girl.

Looks good!! Luv the blue ones......

carbonmonoxide wrote:My wife's dream car has always been an 60's Notch. She has discovered one in Watsonia that was with the same owner for 35 years. Left a note in the letter box and four days later it is sitting in our driveway. Still on it's original registration and regularly serviced it has a rust free floor pan but rust in a few of the outer panels. We plan on a full rust repair and respray as well as get the engine back up to a presentable condition.

I've just spent a few weeks reading up on Type 3's and begun the restoration by rekitting the carbs and replacing all the fuel lines.

Just pulled off the right rear guard as this is the worst of the rust. Panel needs a lot of work so looking for a replacement. Inner guards/ wheel arch needs rust repairs but not terminal.

The car is a 1969 Automatic. Drives really nicely apart from the leaking fumes into the car due to heater pipes being off and an original engine compartment seal. Chassis plate starts with 3191200XX. Just how rare is this combination?

Does anyone know a source of good second hand or NOS rear quarter panels for a 69 Notch? Are there other rust repair panels available?

NOS rear panels will cost you an arm and the legs of your familiy, good used ones are about here and there, try the samba should be some there.

there are some rust repair bits either in NOS( arm and leg price) or new repro but only real small sections and often the unrusted part on your car. Also these are often square/fasty specific. notch its its own race.


I suggest Mario at t3 headquarters in Germany (check his website, got all listed there), BerT3 from Belgium, he's on the samba.

Vicsbahn in NSW has some NOS manly earlier parts that should suit yours. Also volksbahn has some NOS parts but I am unsure to what as I didn't particular like dealing with woman that now owns it.

I have one piece of NOS 69 sheet metal if your interested.

Hope that helps.

Oh I forgot to mention the repro floor pans from Gerson at klasicfab in USA are ace!.

I got mine through Just campers? ACT, they distribute them here. they are about a grand for a pair which isn't too bag considering how good they are.

carbonmonoxide wrote:Has anyone used the rust repair panels by this company?

http://www.retrorods.net.au/rustrepairs.html

what 33 bucks for a door sill? that can't be right. all the prices are so low I would be very skeptical.

but from the pics their work looks really good.

I will book mark this. maybe a few structural bits I could get made by this mob.

Hi Vlad,

Thanks for the leads. I'm still trying to take in all the places for VW's. I'll shoot off some emails to the people you suggest and see what comes back.

What panel do you have for a 69. I might not need it yet but will no doubt find more rust as I remove the outer panels.

The restorods site does sound cheap. I think my boss got rear quarter panels for his XM Falcon Coupe from them. I'm waiting for him to return from leave so I can confirm if it is the place and the quality.

At the price they are asking its almost worth taking the punt and ordering a set to see how they are.

Are the early and late Notch rear panels the same except for the lights and trim holes?

Feel free to gimme a call i have some of the part u r looking for.
0488 089 456

carbonmonoxide wrote:Hi Vlad,

Thanks for the leads. I'm still trying to take in all the places for VW's. I'll shoot off some emails to the people you suggest and see what comes back.

What panel do you have for a 69. I might not need it yet but will no doubt find more rust as I remove the outer panels.

The restorods site does sound cheap. I think my boss got rear quarter panels for his XM Falcon Coupe from them. I'm waiting for him to return from leave so I can confirm if it is the place and the quality.

At the price they are asking its almost worth taking the punt and ordering a set to see how they are.

Are the early and late Notch rear panels the same except for the lights and trim holes?

he has the spare wheel well, i wouldnt bother dealing with him tho as he sold it to one of the lads and screwed him about and it was still on ebay the whole time, tread carefully with vlad and his advice

i drive a 71 auto notch, the auo is better than i first thought it was going to be, lovely car you have found and be sure to keep us posted, isp west is good for the chrome goodies you may wish to purchase

good luck with your car hope to see it about

had a mate buy 2 skins for his Monaro from them.....quality was excellent and he was happy with them. He also sent a panel down to be copied and was happy with the price and the panel.

vlad01 wrote:Also volksbahn has some NOS parts but I am unsure to what as I didn't particular like dealing with woman that now owns it.

Hope that helps.

The "woman" who owns Volksbahn is one half of the original owners and couldn't be more helpful! However, she does get stroppy with people who pi$$ her off.

Russ

Old Rusty_VW wrote:

vlad01 wrote:Also volksbahn has some NOS parts but I am unsure to what as I didn't particular like dealing with woman that now owns it.

Hope that helps.

The "woman" who owns Volksbahn is one half of the original owners and couldn't be more helpful! However, she does get stroppy with people who pi$$ her off.

Russ

yes I know that, Vic is a great mate but I didn't want to mention anything about their personal life.

Yes she was very cranky and just carried on when she found out I was dealing with Vic for NOS parts. Anyway I got what I needed from her and I was done! and moved on.

subimanx wrote:had a mate buy 2 skins for his Monaro from them.....quality was excellent and he was happy with them. He also sent a panel down to be copied and was happy with the price and the panel.

this is excellent news!

I must try to cut out some bits out and sent them for reproing.

I rather do this than get a panel beater out for this job, 1 there are no "proper" panel beaters in my town, 2 can't imagine now costly it would be to get a specialist in classic car fab/panel beating out from melbourne to here with all his/her welders/tools 🤪

if anyone wonders why not drive it there, well its too far torn down to rebuild and drive anywhere now 😂 too late! 😊


yeah cheers for that. I only wished for a service like this, never knew such a business could exist.

Ay Vlad u should buy a Commadore they can tow and hire a car trailer!😵

empi wrote:Ay Vlad u should buy a Commadore they can tow and hire a car trailer!😵

you mean a car remains portable even if it is stripped down?
thats amazing .next they will have trucks that can pickup
an unfinished project and take it somewhere .
i hope vlad is taking notes lol!

hey vlad what do you do when you run out of milk ?
wait for a cow to pass by ?

^😂

Top looking notch, quite rare up here. Good luck with the repairs.

Very nice car got a little distracted !

like early cars much more balanced proportions ,
good luck with your project. will be keen to follow YOUR PROGRESS!👍👍

L469 wrote:

empi wrote:Ay Vlad u should buy a Commadore they can tow and hire a car trailer!😵

you mean a car remains portable even if it is stripped down?
thats amazing .next they will have trucks that can pickup
an unfinished project and take it somewhere .
i hope vlad is taking notes lol!

hey vlad what do you do when you run out of milk ?
wait for a cow to pass by ?

yep, do live on a farm after all.😂

I used to have a tow bar, well half of one. that was toss to scrap 😂

Yes I can transport the shell if I need to but not for little bits of metal to be copyed like these, thats just stupid! Better of getting bits made up and get everything else NOS which I close to having them all, then when I accumulate some holiday time and decent amount of cash I'll sent the body off for work and paint.

Or I could just leave it for a very long time and wait till you guys die, so you wont bother me 😂 😂