[T3] 2014 Type 3 Invasion

[James Lingenfelter]

LOL.... I don't even have a vehicle that could tow it! My two  
remaining air-cooled vw's (the squareback and a karmann ghia) have  
been retired from "daily driver" status over the last couple of  
years, and now that I don't drive them on a daily basis, I feel like  
I don't have as good a handle on their exact mechanical condition. It  
was one thing to hop in and drive 1,500 miles when it was all I had,  
and I was driving it 500 miles a week all the time. Now that they  
mostly sit in the garage, mysterious failures seem to pop up at a  
rate 10 times greater than when their motors never even had a chance  
to cool off.

The squareback has been particularly frustrating over the years. I  
bought it 8 years ago, and it was quite a basket case. It had a good  
body with zero rust, a good motor, and absolutely NOTHING else  
worked. I drove it home when I bought it and feared for my life every  
inch of the way. So for 8 years I've been working the bugs out of it.  
I actually got it running and driving great within just a few months  
of buying it, and thought I was done. But it's been 8 more years of  
one bizarre problem after another raising it's ugly head. I feel like  
I am STILL on a perpetual shakedown run, waiting for the next mystery  
to pop up. I still don't trust this car for more than 100 miles.  
Meanwhile, the interior and paint remain in their pitiful state,  
since I have sworn to myself to get it right mechanically before  
proceeding with anything else.

This has been frustrating for me; the other vw's I've had (type 1), I  
purchased in a reasonably well maintained condition. This squareback  
was my first experiment with buying a car that's been sitting in  
someone's back yard for years. Now I am still chasing down problems  
resulting from years of abuse and neglect under previous owners!

On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 7/19/2012 8:23:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jimmyandcher at yahoo.com writes:
>
> I  guess "south" can mean different things..... that would still be
> about 12 hours north of me. I'm afraid my days of long treks in the
> VW's in the summer with no AC are over. Actually my VW's may have
> decided those days are over as well... I don't know if they could
> make it anymore!
>
>
>
> You could always "trailer it" behind the AC equipped truck. ;-)
>
> Bob 65 Notch  S with sunroof and IRS (Krusty)
> 64 T-34 Ghia  (Wolfie)
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