Part 2:
Taking the car apart is like an archaeological dig, I'm finding clues and putting together pieces of the car's past. One cool thing about this car is that it came with a pile of receipts from past owners. From the records I have put together a rough timeline of its life.
1965 – Purchased new from Everly Motors in Salem, Oregon
July 1967 – purchased used from Everly Motors for $1295
July 1967 to Summer of 1988, owned by the same person, given regular service except for September 1977 – at 80,xxx miles, replace a broken piston with a used one (talk about a cheapskate)
1988 – New Owner, 1106xx miles on the odo, $850
Sept 1990 – new owner $1500
July 2003 – rebuilt 1967 1500 engine with 85.5 mm pistons (makes it a 1600) installed at somewhere between 110600 and 116587 miles on the ODO
January 2012 the car is in Cincinnati with new owner 116587 on ODO
July 2012 – New owner
September 2012 – New owner in Brookville, Ohio. 120302 on ODO
April 2013 – new brake system – complete
January 2019 – purchased by me from Brookville owner $5000
At some point the rear window had leaked, probably for months, and the rear package shelf rusted out. It was replaced with some flat steel sheet, don't know when. It's all be covered up so I'm not worrying about the crappy weld job.
This sticker was inside the glove compartment door, obviously placed there by the selling dealer. I ask the painter to try to preserve it but the masking tape pulled it off when he unmasked it. I'm going to try to have a vinyl stick-on copy of it made.
This sticker is on one of the rear quarter windows. I don't know what "Huckberry" is, but I like it so I'm going to keep it.
EDIT: OK I googled it. Huckberry is a clothing company. Cool logo though.
As I was taking the bumpers off this spare key holder fell out on the floor. It had been clipped onto a bumper bracket. It was such a glopped-up mess of rust and mud that I didn't recognize it at first.
I threw it in the blasting cabinet and hit it with some glass bead, hoped it was an original VW key, but it's a steel repro so - useless.