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My '69 Square

zoofish - October 21st, 2013 at 03:25 PM

After Selling the Bug 2 weeks ago, I picked up my 1st Type 3 – An Automatic ’69 Square. Loving it so far, just trying to figure out what I should do first. Perhaps proper white wall tyres…mmm…

More updates to come...

empi - October 21st, 2013 at 03:52 PM

Haa i remember picking this thing up!! Emads old car.

GottaSplit - October 21st, 2013 at 05:16 PM

Tidy :cool:

ColonyVW - October 22nd, 2013 at 06:37 AM

Nice score!

dragsters for life - October 22nd, 2013 at 06:49 AM

love this old girl and its cool to see a sticker already on there

PHAT BUG - October 23rd, 2013 at 08:12 AM

Shit yeah!
That's my old square :no:

The day I bought it..........

And The Day I sold it........

Cool to see it hasn't changed much. Look after the old girl

dragsters for life - October 23rd, 2013 at 04:17 PM

heaps of type 3 heads over here

http://volkaholics.net/index.php

Camo - October 23rd, 2013 at 04:49 PM

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Originally posted by zoofish

just trying to figure out what I should do first.

Congratulations! Having seen your efforts on your old Beetle, I'm sure there will be lots that you will do and it will be another show piece. I have a little feeling, you can't help yourself from modifying or making it the cleanest car possible :lol:

Kev

P.S. Maybe you can finally come for a cruse or the Friday night meetup at Liverpool.

oldskoolguy - October 23rd, 2013 at 06:32 PM

Nice car zoofish, I like the pinstriping too.
Can you or anybody tell me where you get those "gutter feelers" that are on your car in the "PHAT VW" picture. I bought some for my dad many years ago and he always thought they were great.
Thanks, Rob.

zoofish - October 27th, 2013 at 08:50 AM

Thanks for the comments - appreciate it. Kev, trying to figure out what to do first, but also trying to not go down the same path as the Bug. Will try to keep as much of the original paint as possible for the moment but some of it is heavily cracked and blistering off in one or two places. But first, fixing the panel alignment issues and refreshing the interior and then probably drive it around a bit before deciding what to do next.

Otherwise I know that I'll end up going down a colour change path and we all know how mind bending that is

Camo - October 27th, 2013 at 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by zoofish

Otherwise I know that I'll end up going down a colour change path and we all know how mind bending that is

I know only too well how one small change can lead to a complete makeover. And how a 6 month plan can turn in to a 3 year renovation :fakesniff:

Enjoy, Kev

zoofish - December 8th, 2013 at 07:13 PM

Sneak peek at some changes being made...Chasing a different look

Camo - December 8th, 2013 at 08:02 PM

Ya tease! I think you borrowed those wheels from another ride in the paddock, if I am correct.

Looks sweet :tu: :yes:

Kev

zoofish - December 8th, 2013 at 08:16 PM

Hi Camo, you'd think the wheels were from the Bug, but those wheels left the garage a year ago bolted onto a Bus.

After a long search, I grabbed the last set of these that I could find

ColonyVW - December 16th, 2013 at 07:46 PM

Those wheels are cool, something different for sure. Well done.

beetle_nut - December 16th, 2013 at 07:55 PM

Nice square...love it...

zoofish - February 23rd, 2014 at 02:41 PM

Time for some new power - A Chico Performance Racing 1835cc Thick Wall Turnkey engine setup for the Automatic Squareback.

charlie55 - March 7th, 2014 at 12:12 PM

awesome

brendanwright - March 8th, 2014 at 07:22 AM

Was it difficult to import the engine.....much hassle with customs and was it easy to deal with the supplier?

zoofish - March 10th, 2014 at 12:01 PM

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Originally posted by brendanwright
Was it difficult to import the engine.....much hassle with customs and was it easy to deal with the supplier?

No, it was very easy actually. We've bought engines from CPR before, so I just emailed Chico with a few questions, he came back with some options and prices. Once the engine was built, shipping took a week all up from CPR's door, through Australian Customs and delivered to my door. Too easy

GottaSplit - March 10th, 2014 at 02:45 PM

If can get any better... lovin' it :yes:

zoofish - April 27th, 2014 at 09:11 PM

So we've started to wet sand through the various, blistered layers of paint to see what we have and if we repaint it or wax it and run it like this for a while. Paint is smooth, but in places some of the panels have up to 6 different colors on them.

Starting to repaint the interior, door jams etc.

Next stop, trying to workout how to run a kickdown switch for the automatic box to run with dual webers...mmm...

Paulc1964au - April 28th, 2014 at 08:54 AM

going to be real sweet look forward to seeing it

zoofish - December 9th, 2014 at 12:45 PM

As the car currently stands today, after an interior refresh. I'm contemplating swapping it for an Oval Window Bug OR taking it all apart and doing a pan off restoration...mmm...