[T3] Type 3 dash
SAW DUST
sawspatch at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 26 11:40:19 PDT 2014
Hey there , I was just wondering , why is it that every dash that I see for sale is the slotted speaker grill dash ?
My dash has the oval small grid of dots for the speaker grill. Is my dash hard to find? Is it not being reproduced ?
SAWdust
San Diego
67 notch
> On Jun 26, 2014, at 11:26 AM, "Dennis Stiefel" <dlstiefel at dekalbk12.org> wrote:
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> I mostly drive my '69 Square in [Southern] Wisconsin; May to October.
> In the last 4 years, Jim A. has done a ton of work ... 2010-to-2014 ...on my
> car, and I've done what I can.
> Bob Heydt did a 2-week "cut away the rust" on the rockers, heater tubes,
> "banged" some on the rear apron, RHS fender/tail light area, re-installed my
> front and rear bumpers, etc..
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> My car was a daily driver/family car when I bought it in October '69.
> In ~1986 it had a partial "amateur restoration" by my son & me.
> For those "early years" ... '69 to '86, I hardly got a question or a mention
> about WHAT my car was.
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> After 1986, it was only driven in the summer months and I got a fair share
> of "looks" but nothing unusual.
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> But since, 2001 to 2010, the car was stored, nobody saw the car on the road.
> Hence, no comments, etc.
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> Since 2010, however, "the looks, smiles, thumbs up, comments [mostly "Nice
> car."], questions", etc. have been continual.
> Every time and everywhere we drive the car.
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> So I perceive it's NOT just a "southern thing". It is possibly pretty
> universal, right?
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> Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT
> Rockport, TX (winter)
> Lake Geneva, WI (summer)
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> Well I was mainly meaning our cars being called beetles or bug but yes in
> the last 8 months since I've started driving it the response has been great.
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> Big attention getter. A whole lot better than 89 when I quit driving her.
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> Dennis Stiefel
> 72 Fastback FI MT
> 71 STD. Beetle
> 67 Ford F-100 (hart of Crown Vic)
> Rainsville, AL
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