Notchback

[shintoooo]

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-volkswagen-type-3-notchback/

 

[wsuwrhr]

Oh how I love me some notch.

 

[RiverDave]

I remember in high school all these VW’s were cheap and common.. Almost picked up a pretty nice bug with an 1835 for a 1000.00 outside of the keys in Parker.. needed nothing.

Now regular old bugs that aren’t even crazy nice are bringing big dollars.


That one seems reasonable though

 

[OutCole'd]

Oh how I love me some notch.

X100

 

[82daytona]

Are you buying it?


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[shintoooo]

Are you buying it?


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No but I'm always looking

 

[shintoooo]

Here's my buddy's 23 window bus

http://www.23windowbus.com/collections/featured/

Here's how it started out:

http://www.23windowbus.com/collections/1963-deluxe-23-window-micro-bus/

 

[sirbob]

I love those air cooled VWs!

My first car was a 63 ghia that I bought for 600 and sold for 2500 - part of me wishes I never sold it!

I spend a fair amount of time checking out the listings on this site...

http://www.oldbug.com/sales.htm

 

[RitcheyRch]

I'd love to have a Notchback.

 

[wsuwrhr]

I do love me some VW.

Not enough garages.

 

[shintoooo]

I love cruising around in the bug we just bought. I keep forgetting to buy stuff at the store so I keep having to go back.

 

[wsuwrhr]

When you are ready for some more ass in that ol girl, we can fix you up with that. 200HP in a bug is rather....fun.

I love cruising around in the bug we just bought. I keep forgetting to buy stuff at the store so I keep having to go back.

 

[Gelcoater]

I remember in high school all these VW’s were cheap and common.. Almost picked up a pretty nice bug with an 1835 for a 1000.00 outside of the keys in Parker.. needed nothing.

Yep. My HS parking lot in the 80s would be like a common classic car show today.
Notchbacks, Ghias, Square Backs, plus the other guys, Firebirds, muscle cars of various trim levels.
One kid had a first gen Camaro RS/SS car, red, and perfect.
Another kid had a 66Chevelle SS396, got wasted by a trash truck his junior year just parked in front of his house.

By the end of his senior year his dad and he had it back on the road and looking sweet again.

 

[Motor Boater]

God I love notchbacks! I’ve been working this week getting the interior back in my beetle! I’ll have to do a build thread when it’s done.

 

[rvrrun]

Thats a pretty notch, but its starting to look like the tri-5 Chebby guys with every known dealer add on available.

 

[Ziggy]

In my Escondido (valley pkwy) cruising days there was one VW bug that would outrun every car including the muscle cars. He rarely if ever accepted a race challenge, he knew most were a waste of his time.

 

[Ziggy]

Thats a pretty notch, but its starting to look like the tri-5 Chebby guys with every known dealer add on available.

It's those rare factory accessories(especially Max Hoffmann add-ons) that add great value to these cars.
My dad imported and sold VW accessories when he first immigrated to Canada in the early 50's. Stuff like a fuel level gauges, coffee cup warmers and everything else we all take for granted these days. What I wouldn't do to have the VW my parents had back then, the pics of them picnicing in a grass field with it look like they came out of a sales brochure.

 

[Rondog4405]

Clean notches are rare these days. The pre 67 vw market is nuts right now. Bucket beaters are 5k and up. Shouldve kept all my old cars . had a 56 rag 15 years ago. Needed the money and let it go for 4k .. Now it would fetch 14k easily.

 

[SBMech]

Funny, never seen a notchback (coupe) in person. Only the wagons we got in the states. Hehe they all had the Autostick too!

 

[wsuwrhr]

They are pretty rare to begin with. Never sold new in the US that I know of, It was a car that peeps imported themselves.

Brian

Funny, never seen a notchback (coupe) in person. Only the wagons we got in the states. Hehe they all had the Autostick too!

 

[Heylam]

Notches are nice, but I’d really like a type 34.


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[River Lynchmob]

Here's my buddy's 23 window bus

http://www.23windowbus.com/collections/featured/

Here's how it started out:

http://www.23windowbus.com/collections/1963-deluxe-23-window-micro-bus/

Damn you..i love 21 and 23 windows...only thing it is missing are the safari windows. I will have one of these in the garage one day!

 

[nowski]

One of my old buddies (Danny Gabbard from Gab-Fab) built these years ago. Both cars were featured in Hot VW Magazine. The Notch he eventually sold and the Ghia he built for his
ex-wife...

 

[wsuwrhr]

Ill need a moment please...

Hold my calls.

Brian

One of my old buddies (Danny Gabbard from Gab-Fab) built these years ago. Both cars were featured in Hot VW Magazine. The Notch he eventually sold and the Ghia he built for his
ex-wife... View attachment 643380

 

[rvrrun]

One of my old buddies (Danny Gabbard from Gab-Fab) built these years ago. Both cars were featured in Hot VW Magazine. The Notch he eventually sold and the Ghia he built for his
ex-wife... View attachment 643380 View attachment 643381

That's how a notch should look.

 

[nowski]

Not a notch but here's another one of Danny's Ghia's that was also featured in Hot VW. He eventually sold this gem to a guy in Japan...

 

[Motor Boater]

I always save pics of nice VWs I see. This one is off the charts!

 

[Tooned Up]

Here is my 65. I'm putting a Gilmore Enterprise A/C kit in it right now and it will soon be my daughters 1st car.

 

[Rondog4405]

Damn you..i love 21 and 23 windows...only thing it is missing are the safari windows. I will have one of these in the garage one day!

Its nuts how much buses go for now!!! Huge money

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

Notches are my absolute favorite. Always told myself I'd get one. Someday. Still should have never got rid of my 62 Rag.

 

[Demoman]

In my Escondido (valley pkwy) cruising days there was one VW bug that would outrun every car including the muscle cars. He rarely if ever accepted a race challenge, he knew most were a waste of his time.

Great memories cruzin Valley Pkwy
Carousel Theater to Rallys! I remember watching that bug pulling wheelies racing on frontage road. Good times!!

 

[Holymoses]

Injected Turbo will get you there and back real quick

When you are ready for some more ass in that ol girl, we can fix you up with that. 200HP in a bug is rather....fun.

 

[GRADS]

I somewhat get the Karmann Ghia thing but other than that you couldn't pay me to own a VW let alone ride in one....those bugs scare the shit out of me.

 

[Holymoses]

View attachment 643483 I always save pics of nice VWs I see. This one is off the charts!

THATs a clean Oval!!! I’m helping my 16year old son build a 56oval rag at the moment. Here’s my Double.

 

[River Lynchmob]

Its nuts how much buses go for now!!! Huge money

Saw a 23 window at Barrett Jackson go for $129k

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[82daytona]

Just got the long block for ours. 2332cc 200hp [emoji109]


View attachment 643643 no progress on the body yet

 

[82daytona]

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THATs a clean Oval!!! I’m helping my 16year old son build a 56oval rag at the moment. Here’s my Double.

Very cool For a first car! Hopefully he knows what he has and takes good care of it. [emoji106]


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[shintoooo]

Saw a 23 window at Barrett Jackson go for $129k

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The one I listed above is going for $200K+. I talked to him yesterday and he has a couple of people that are interested and he said it should be sold in the next week or so.

 

[Mike Honcho]

Man most of these were way better than my sleeper junker:

 

[wsuwrhr]

Nice.

There are some better parts out there since I did mine.

Brian

Just got the long block for ours. 2332cc 200hp [emoji109]


View attachment 643643 no progress on the body yet

 

[CanyonLakeDave]

In the mid 80’ At 16-18 Years Old I had a collection I wish I had today :
1956 Type 2 Kombi -paid $100.00
1959 Type 2 single cab-paid $250.00
1963 21 window rag camper- paid $275.00
1963 23 window rag- paid 300.00 (this was a Rusted POS but still very valuable today.
1969 type 3 fastback - paid $500.00
1959 rag bug /cal bug paid $1,500
In the 90’s I did a little Porsche exporting
1968 911E targa paid about $2,500
1970 911T targa paid about $3,000
1976 914 paid $800.00......

Anyway if I had these today i’d be retired

 

[nowski]

In the mid 80’ At 16-18 Years Old I had a collection I wish I had today :
1956 Type 2 Kombi -paid $100.00
1959 Type 2 single cab-paid $250.00
1963 21 window rag camper- paid $275.00
1963 23 window rag- paid 300.00 (this was a Rusted POS but still very valuable today.
1969 type 3 fastback - paid $500.00
1959 rag bug /cal bug paid $1,500
In the 90’s I did a little Porsche exporting
1968 911E targa paid about $2,500
1970 911T targa paid about $3,000
1976 914 paid $800.00......

Anyway if I had these today i’d be retired

Many of us are in that same boat, that's the car version of a 401k plan...

 

[Motor Boater]

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THATs a clean Oval!!! I’m helping my 16year old son build a 56oval rag at the moment. Here’s my Double.

I love double cabs. My mechanic has one that is filthy.

 

[Tommy Gun Images]

Not a notch but here's another one of Danny's Ghia's that was also featured in Hot VW. He eventually sold this gem to a guy in Japan...

View attachment 643423

I remember all three of those features. Might even still have the mags. The notchback is a bucket list car that I would put in front of most others. A type 34 would be on the list too. I've owned a couple of 67's, and a 69 Ghia. But I've owned my 71 SB for 27 years. It was my first car...

Here is the before pic. When I bought it I rebuilt the engine with my dad's guidance. For that reason alone I will likely never sell it... (that's my first boat in the background LOL)

I was so pumped when I finally saved enough money to lower it a bit and put wheels on it!

It got rear ended the summer after my senior year and I took the $600 insurance money and saved the rest to have the body work and paint done. I had this little Ranger as a driver my first year of college...

Me and my buddies cruised to every show we could... (that's my skinny white ass in the lawn chair behind the car)

A common picture at my place in Tucson while I was in college...

The homies always had nicer shit than me LOL

Cruises to Jerome were a common weekend pastime for us...

This 67 was one of my favorites. I wish I would have kept it, but cameras are expensive...

 

[BoatCop]

My cross the street neighbor has a super clean '70 fastback w/2000 for sale. I'll grab some pics of it tomorrow. In the meantime, here's my '69, that'll be completely redone (again) with pretty much new everything in the coming months.

 

[shintoooo]

My cross the street neighbor has a super clean '70 fastback w/2000 for sale. I'll grab some pics of it tomorrow. In the meantime, here's my '69, that'll be completely redone (again) with pretty much new everything in the coming months.

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Yes, please put up some details of the fastback when you get a chance.

 

[was thatguy]

Here's my buddy's 23 window bus

http://www.23windowbus.com/collections/featured/

Here's how it started out:

http://www.23windowbus.com/collections/1963-deluxe-23-window-micro-bus/

Damn!

I think I saw one of those on Pawn Stars?
They were talking like $100K plus?

 

[shintoooo]

Damn!

I think I saw one of those on Pawn Stars?
They were talking like $100K plus?

His was not on pawn stars. He’s looking at $200K+

 

[BoatCop]

This was the '69 when I first brought it home in Oct. 2001. Picked it up, out of AutoTrader in Lemon Grove. Was listed for $1,200 but waved $1,000 cash in his face.

Work in progress, Jan 2002:

 

[BoatCop]

And if anyone wants to know why it needs to be re-done, it spent the last 9 years like the photo below, transportation for my grand-kids in High School.