Thanks for the advice s.unsworth and brimfull. I'm going to try fabricate a new edge myself and weld it on! I already orderd parts from typ3konny, they are very helpfull and fast! Does T3D also have a lot of parts on stock? T3D used to have lots in stock but I've not ordered from them in a while so...

I bought some short edge pieces from T3D but that was a while ago. Tbh you could probably make them easy enough as it's just a flat section and it'd save you quite a bit of money too

No way, I can remember this from the Colin Burnham air cooled book I had in the mid 80s!!!

There's a thread on Vzi about its rebirth as a tube chassis drag car after being written off
http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=1151242

whilst this was going on, I ordered some panels from Germany, a pair of rear seat lower corners http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa219/FLC_photo/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-08/IMG_20150804_133844_zps4fwdzgfd.jpg I was thinking they didnt look too bad and would make life easier but maybe I'm being lazy ...

I wouldn't give it too much of a clean if advertising it as the patina will add ££ in todays climate

I've got to do next exactly the bit you've just showed. I wasn't sure whether to attack it from inside first or outside tbh. Ta in advance

If you can, please post some rebuild pics up as I've got exactly the same bit to do on mine next

That looks exactly like my car, think they must all rot about the same

If you are a bit handy and have a few tools you can lower it yourself for free, there's plenty of info on the net about how to do it. As its a 72 it has IRS so prob won't camber in much if you lower it more. What wheels does it have as ones for a Beetle have a different offset and often catch on T3s?

Been a while but done a little more. Heater channel mostly done, floor next

JSR-69 wrote:T3 Detectives was an offshoot of the original T2 Detectives. They are still here: http://www.type2detectives.com/

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Sort of true but the wrong way round, they were into type 3s years before buses

Sometimes turn up on ebay or a some German specialists do them too. It's actually in a few bits -outer, inner (which is hard to find but not bad to make) and the part inside the car.
Have a look through a few project pages on here and you'll see what I mean.

Mine was the same there mate, not too bad once you dive into it. Some pics of mine on here viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7561

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rarity-Original-genuine-VW-Beetle-1303-Type-3-Karmann-KPZ-Kronprinz-wheels-rims-/110978270380?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item19d6d204ac These look nice... however they seem pricey to me http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110976088957?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=...

The ones on Mapperley top had a Beetle with a Morris Traveller back on it, cleverly called "Boris" :lol: . I found a Johnny's Speed and Chrome catalogue I'd got from them in 87/88 in the garage a while ago - old gits It helped on the dogleg pan bit that I was doing the inner wing and channel too so ...

Cheers Mike, thought it might be so now you've said that I've ordered a bit from GSF- remember it used to be Triax in Nottm when we were lads
Dogleg pan bit is fitting ok, much easier than the bloody dogleg bit of the front channel was

Thanks Mark, not the dogleg bit as I've got that from T3D but just the straight edge under the door. Should probably be easy enough to make but I was hoping to just get a repair section.
Nothing's ever that simple on type 3 is it?

Does anyone know if the T3 floorpan edge profile where it bolts up to the heater channel is the same size and shape as a Beetle? I need a couple of bits and would imagine Beetle would be easier to get hold of. Ta in advance

Must be around still cos Paul posted a wanted ad on here this afternoon

The channels are made in two pieces- inner and outer Outer http://www.typ-17.de/images/product_images/popup_images/311000002.jpg Inner http://www.typ-17.de/images/product_images/popup_images/809_311_512_Titel.jpg There is a heater tube in the middle which also has a skin around it but you can't buy ...

panalvan wrote:Did you buy this from the rugby area

No mate,down the M11 and also about 14 years ago

Thanks guys, hoping starting a thread will shame me into keep working on it regularly

Tacked in http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/brimfull/321570C2-E84C-4A16-B513-B2C4A1966C43-10109-00000EF4296BF792.jpg & finished off http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/brimfull/C869A1FF-7676-4AE2-94F8-4490FA532233-10109-00000EF44DFBD6B6.jpg Bit more on the rear inner wings, then fit a floorp...

Front inner sorted http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/brimfull/6a1e245b.jpg Then on to the back http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/brimfull/0867b061.jpg New b pillar rear lower section fitted http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/brimfull/5EFA2ED0-36B1-41B1-AC50-3A8DEDD23036-10077-00000EEFD...