VW squareback.....
 

Looking at a 70 with a new Type IV motor....

What are they going for now?

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Squareback was the first car I ever drove solo for a long distance on public roads.

I think I was 14. Friend of the family let me drive around town for an entire evening. I loved that car.

Hard to say what they go for these days......because so few are even around. There is one on ebay for a BIN of 10 grand right now. I don't think i would plop down that kind of change for one, but they are a seldom seen ride!

Unless the car's been modified it should not have a Type 4 motor. Should be a 1600 Type 1 motor with fuel injection but the Type 3 fan shroud.

One of those here for sale locally has had me thinking also. I seem to remember that they had engine cooling issues? Is that a fact? that they don't cool as well as the bug?

The one for sale here is $5K decent body , rebuilt engine.

Cheers Richard

My Dad had a 73 that I drove for many years. I also had a 71 that had been rolled on Angeles Crest Highway....ran like a champ. Never over heated as far as I remember....

Looks like carbs.....:confused:


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Thats a type III motor not a type IV. Also, it looks like that is a 72 to 74 Squareback judging from the large tail lights. Still looks like a fun project. I had an early pie wagon way back in the day.

Well my estimate is 3K.....max

Always kind of wanted one of these...

Put a 911 motor in it!


KT

put an electric conversion in it - you can gut a Chevy Volt

I'd rather have an old Volvo station wagon tho...

Brad's dad had one of those, but IIRC it was slightly modified ........

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Rumor has it that a couple years ago it was offered for sale for $19k ...... and it works a heck of a lot better than one that runs on batteries.

455 olds with a toronado drivertrain (in the back).

What could go wrong? I'm sure you could keep yer foot out of it .....

Original 1970 Squareback
 

I recently worked on this Squareback.

Purchased November 1969
All records since new including every gas purchase with date, cost and gallons.

Photos for your viewing pleasure.

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Sweet!!!

Working on both of these now. Centurion is getting a service. The 69 square has no injector pulses when cranking. Put a couple of drops of gas in the intake and it fires up and runs like a champ.

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I had one, I loved it. You can get an amazing amount of gear into one.
Those are most likely aftermarket carbs, OK but like a 914 good working FI is better.

the only thing my family EVER won is a VW wagon like that. my mom couldnt drive a stick very well and force my dad to sell it. i was about 5 years old, and i can still remember the interior smell of that car.

i would kill to still have it. it was baby blue IIRC. my mom would whiplash the entire family..good times. very good times.
BUY IT!!

Check the F.I. trigger points in the distributor.

a fond memory of SBs!
 

Hope this doesn't bore everyone, if so skip it.
Gezz, VW Squarebacks, that sure takes me back. I had a 69 green SB with a sunroof, loved that car. Rebuilt the motor & brakes and put a new clutch in it, then drove it to my new job in MI from Philly area. Non-stop except for gas with never an issue. Thing ran like a top and a great cruiser, very comfortable but no headrests as I recall; not sure about seat belts, but who cared back in the day! Then a couple years later took a 72 SB to Jackman Maine to visit an old HS buddy and his new bride with my girl friend (her car). We were fine until we hit the logging road. Holy cow what a ride. Felt like one of those old gals one used to see on the dashboard with the head attached by a spring and did the hula. OMG, never thought we would ever get there. Almost turned back a couple times, but after about 5 hours we figured we had to almost be there, right???!! wrong, about another 2.5 hours and we arrived. Couldn't go more than about 45mph maybe 50 if we hit a wet area where the stones were somewhat buried. That car stood up to that torture better than we did.
The rest of the story. We got there had dinner and then passed out in bed upstairs. About an hour later my girlfriend and I are wide awake. With all the vastness of land in this geographical location, the house was built 20 feet off the logging road (you ain't seen snow until you've spent a winter in Jackman), so all night the house shook with logging trucks going past at about the same 45mph we did only carrying dizzyingly long trees stacked as high as a 5 story building! Laugh now, but I'll NEVER drive another logging road as long as I live.

Try this link for some good price comparisons. The samba is usually pretty close to market value.
TheSamba.com :: VW Classifieds - Vehicles - Type 3

I came very close to having a Mexico blue SB for a first car. Not sure where that would have set on the cool scale compared to the 944.

same 1 in Samba 6th one down that Brew 66 posted ... Volkswagen : Type III | eBay

Same here, Sid... but it wasn't that close for me... and the SB was a beyond-boring metallic medium brown.

This was in '72... right after my junior year at college ...my dad had looked around town for a coupla deals for me to pick from because he knew he would be cosigning for part of it... and he came up with the SB and a '68 Cougar.

I figured the Cougar would be a better chick magnet. It was. :cool:

$1600. I had some money saved from part time jobs and put $800 down, borrowed the other half. I never missed a payment.

Loved mine; the reason I own the TDI Sportswagen.... trying to capture the simplicity....

The first car my parents gave me to drive aroud in was a beat up '73 Fastback - the smaller sibling of the SB. Interesting little cars...fond memories...

-Z

joe bob................still laughing my azz off at yer statement "patrick is a douche nozzle!" gawd that was funny.


anyway we have some intrepid friends of ours that had a squareback. after many many beers, lots of tubing, more beers, and more tubing...............they made a SCORE LEGAL 4 seat with all having harnesses beards race seats, caged out squareback for off road racing. had more fun than a barrel of minkies. i mean they broke the FUN BARRIER x a mill-yon.

the car still exists here in az. and somewhere at home i have pics that i will try to find.


basically had some wheel well rust................WHO CARES??? out comes the super sawz -all and bingo they fit some fat yokohamas and some centerlines.

these guys did not care about winning..............AT ALL!


all they did was pass tech,pay the entry fee and come flag drop, they would go putt off the line, and then crack the beers. be it a 150 mile offroad race or a 250 they just chugged along-literally. i think it was a 2180. and they finished every race they entered.


they had a hell of alot of fun with that car.

There is an orange fastback for sale here in San Pedro... so far I have resisted stopping to look at it... so far.

Wonder if he would trade for a 944? ;)

Fond memories. The hatch on my SB wouldn't close completely - I still have an exhaust headache. Drove it with a blown out plug for a while - pretty loud. Always parked on a hill for starting purposes. Had a fuel leak that I fixed by disconnecting the fuel line every time I parked it and plugging it with a screw. I think that was only for a couple days.

I would buy another in a heart beat if I found a good deal.

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One of these pics is not like the other...

thats very good. let me 'splain....................

pic#1) is a class 8 SCORE truck at the mint 400

pic#2) is a SCORE legal squareback w/my amigos in it.

pic#3) is US off of KONA,hawaii scuba diving.



and now ya ask WTF are (3) different pics here posted??????



cuz i was scanning all the SCADS of hysterical(historical) archives onto my puter.