[T3] Microfiche

[Bobsnotch at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2012 12:51:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
skellzangelz at hotmail.com writes:

Hello  Bob,

If you would be willing to part with your set of 'fiche for a  little while 
for me to make a go at scanning and getting them together in a  pdf file, 
I'd be happy to pay for media mail shipping and even give you a  little 
something as a 'rental' fee, if you want.  Seeing Jacin's post  about the Type 3 
Wiki, this could be a great addition to that page.  I'm  imagining being 
able to make a single file that one would be able to page  through in a pdf 
reading program (like Adobe Acrobat Reader or apple's  Preview).  If this turns 
out to be the case, perhaps it could be made  available for download from 
the wiki site (I'm not good with web design, so  I'm not sure how well that 
would work).  I guess in some ways it would be  a little redundant to have 
the 'fiche when he's got the parts catalog up on  the wiki but it would be 
nice to have something that people could put on their  computers and be able to 
look at multiple pages more easily, as with a  book.

Let me know what you think and I can send you my  address.

Thanks,Jeremy
SF, CA'71 Squareback, MT,  FI



I don't have any microfiche. What I've got, are a set of CDs (in pdf  
format) that I got from Russ. Russ took the time a couple of years ago to scan  
them. I sent a copy of them to Jacin last summer, so that he could add them  
to the type 3 Wiki that he started. Jacin converted the pdf into jpegs to 
make  it a little more user friendly. I figured IF they were on his site, then 
 others would be able to view it and get some info they needed. Plus, he 
was  looking for some info to help build the site. This applies to anyone that 
owns a  t-3.
 
The idea behind Jacin doing the Wiki was actually Tram's (he's not a member 
 here, but did go to VW school), as he realized the loss of Russ and the 
info he  knew was lost as well. Remember, Russ worked on these cars when they 
were new  (at the dealership), and kept working on them after he retired 
from VW, and even  after he retired from Mahle.That kind of info is hard to 
replace. The idea  was to get some sort of record down on the different changes 
over the years of  t-3 production, so IF someone wanted to, they could 
restore a car back to stock,  or what some of the needed maintenance might be, 
or things like that. The 1500  Club was started like this over 5 years ago to 
help preserve the early  cars, and Tram was looking at expanding it to 
include the later cars as well.  But even more so, was the fact that our cars 
are 40 (or almost) years old now,  and the number of completely original cars 
is declining. This is even more so  with the 66 and newer cars, as they were 
actually produced for sale in the USA.  The pre-66 cars were "gray market" 
cars here. The remaining "unmolested" cars  could also serve as examples as 
to what these cars originally came with. At  least that was the idea. Jacin 
noted that the registry numbers show only  about 1100 cars total, and we all 
 know that number is low.
 
Bob 65 Notch  S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
64 T-34 Ghia (Wolfie)  
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120
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