[T3] just seeing if you were paying attention!

[Brion Sabbatino]

It is crazy that VW keeps this old material out of hands and unavailable. Porsche made a CD with all the drawings and part numbers available some years back. It was not expensive, and has been invaluable when searching for a part or determining installation of parts.

VW management has always been short sighted. Porsche just wants their cars to be on the road.

Now that VW heads the Helm, information may not be so easy to come by.

If VW put together a CD it would be a success. Think of all the enthusiast and restorers that would purchase one.

On another note, the Squareback's 130 mile shakedown ride went well. A little carburetor touch up is in order. A steering stabilizer is in need of replacement. The steering box needs to be adjusted. A the duh moment...I installed the steering wheel upside down. Felt silly driving it that way and of course the turn signal cannot cancel it self. 

A very solid car. 

Brion S.
S. Utah

> From: jadney at vwtype3.org
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:25:31 -0600
> Subject: Re: [T3] just seeing if you were paying attention!
> 
> On 11 Dec 2012 at 13:08, Gary Forsmo wrote:
> 
> > Since Jim referred to MICROFILM ... is that how y'all (Dave H.  That's
> > Southern for all of you guys :-))  quote part numbers.
> > Are there microfilm(s) which cover all Type 3's, all years, all models
> > including Type 34's or do you have "hard copies" of part number books
> > that only dealers had?
> 
> VW switched to microfilm in about 1974. Up to then it was all in 
> looseleaf ring binders, one binder per model (Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, 
> Type 4) plus some extras for Ghias and accessories. VW periodically 
> issued update pages which had to be filed into each of those binders 
> to keep them current.
> 
> I have one of these books, bought on ebay, that's moldy and badly 
> eaten by silverfish, but it's older than the microfilm, so it 
> sometimes has details that have gone obsolete in the microfilm.
> 
> Once they switched to microfilm, each binder became one microfilm 
> sheet. The sheets are about 6" x 8" and look like they consist of 
> photocopies of the paper pages. VW dealers got a complete set of new 
> sheets every 6 months. The sheets I have came from a friendly dealer 
> when they got new ones. Since this was years after Type 3 production 
> stopped, those sheets didn't change.
> 
> Nowadays, it's all in a computer database, which would be great for 
> us, except that VW doesn't share it and there's very little left 
> there in the way of Type 3 parts.
> 
> > Is there any help for me?
> > I'd like to have a book, microfilm or PDF(?) file.  Does any of that
> > exist to help those of us uninitiated?
> 
> You're looking for a "copy" of the parts book, right? That's sort of 
> the Holy Grail.
> 
> Russ may have been in the process of digitizing these. I think others 
> have tried, but it's a huge process. And it's probably illegal due to 
> copyright, so I don't think the commercial places which could do this 
> easily would touch it.
> 
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