[T3] Barrett-Jackson just sold a $78K notchback!

[Keith Park]

Ahh, ive got a whole box of original tail light assemblies and reflectors, never thought of them as hard to find.
Of course I parted all this stuff out some ...  OMG!  35 years ago?  Where did the time go?

There's still stuff rooted in the woods up here, no good sheetmetal like Joel gets but good other stuff...  we need and ISP EAST.

😊

Keith


Topnotch Restorations
topnotch at nycap.rr.com
http://www.topnotchresto.com
71 Squareback  “Hothe”
65 Notchback  “El Baja Rojo”
93 RX7  “Redstur”
13 Subaru Outback "Blendin"

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From: type3-vwtype3.org <type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org> On Behalf Of William Hoyer
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 9:24 PM
To: Type 3 VW Club <type3 at vwtype3.org>
Subject: Re: [T3] Barrett-Jackson just sold a $78K notchback!

I believe the reflects are what ISP West is selling since they can't  find the original ones anymore.  I had to weld on a 6mm extension to what was left in order to make it look correct & original. It is getting harder and harder to find correct original parts, particularly for Notches. Even Joel Mitchel is running out of some parts and he has the most Type 3 parts that I know of.

When I was replacing the heater tubes, the only ones I could  find from ISP were the later year ones. Only Type 3 people know the difference but at least I was able to have a complete car after I welded them in. It complicated running electrical from the front to the rear but was able to run all new wireing from ISP and did not do what the B-J one did as he ran it down next to the tunnel.

Do you know anyone who recromes the door handles? Looks like they have to be completely taken apart to get cleaned up and recromed and no one here in WA state will touch them.



On Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 4:53 PM Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Yes, Soren has the eye!  This is NOT STOCK (and that’s ME saying 
> that!) so I was looking for stuff that still should have been done 
> right but wasn’t, Like those rear reflectors...  eliminate them, Fine!  
> Restomod... but to get cheap and grab what fell out of what you stuck 
> in the ground at the end Of your driveway then drill a hole in the 
> middle to fasten it on after cutting it down to size.
>
> CHEEZY!
>
> Keith
>
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> Topnotch Restorations
> topnotch at nycap.rr.com
> http://www.topnotchresto.com
> 71 Squareback  “Hothe”
> 65 Notchback  “El Baja Rojo”
> 93 RX7  “Redstur”
> 13 Subaru Outback "Blendin"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org <type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org> 
> On Behalf Of David
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 4:57 PM
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: [T3] Barrett-Jackson just sold a $78K notchback!
>
> WOW, Soren - that's a pretty keen eye you have there!!!
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> It seems these restomod cars are getting much higher prices these days 
> than a stock unit. Every car is open game, too. There are "sacred" '63 
> split window Corvettes modified so heavily that the only thing 
> original on it is the split window; and they command 2x or 3X what the 
> original version would have sold for. To each his own, I guess.
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> Dave Pallo
>
> '72 Square ~ Elwood
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> Fairport, New York
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