Just got My First Type 4!

DeathBus · Post by **DeathBus** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:04 am

Zen wrote:The "lowered" look is probably due to the bags of concrete sitting inside it. My son parked it at his grandmother's and one of his uncles decided it would make a good storage building. I just hope it hasn't done any irreversable damage.

DEFINITLY (SP?) have to rebuild the suspension. BUT what a sharp looking car!

raygreenwood · Post by **raygreenwood** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:15 am

Yep...time to rebuild all of the suspension. Also stp that rust on the door bottoms quick. The right front fender has the disease. It can be repaired by a skilled welder. It comes frm having a bad gas flap boot. The fuel eats the undercoating...causing serious internal rust on the fender. Ray

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:05 pm

I still haven't gotten it home (hopefully this weekend I will), but I did get the title. It's a 72, not a 71 . . . Does that make it easier to find parts?

DeathBus · Post by **DeathBus** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:13 pm

Zen wrote:I still haven't gotten it home (hopefully this weekend I will), but I did get the title. It's a 72, not a 71 . . . Does that make it easier to find parts?

LMAO! NO!........

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:17 pm

. . . kind'a figured that!

ubercrap · Post by **ubercrap** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:27 pm

There's parts out there, it'll just take some serious detective work. The things I would do to get my hands on a rust free sedan engine lid, though...

DeathBus · Post by **DeathBus** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:36 pm

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the ULTIMATE in type 4 parts, NOS sedan engine lid, no rust, no paint! my dream..............................

ubercrap · Post by **ubercrap** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:26 pm

I wonder if there even is a NOS one still in existence anywhere in the world?

raygreenwood · Post by **raygreenwood** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:24 pm

Gotta be one somewhere. Someone is sitting on them. Many times, people buy vast warehouses of parts and put them in storage until they can get around to them. The reason why they are so hard o locate, is that in this day and age of computer everything, inventory, if someone has not inventoried a parts stash, they have no computer record and have no time to search for...what you need.
Tell you what I do have....an NOS rear window for 411/412 with defroster in the factory box. After painting...it drops into my baby

. The company that found it for me ...said it had an inch of dust on it an had been in a corner of the warehouse that had broken lightbulbs and no one had gotten anything from there in years, so they didn't ever care to see what was in the boxes on the shelves. Whatever it was...it didn't sell, so why bother. They had just starting cleaning it up to add some new stiage space. An interprising person had decided to just simply record whatever #'s they found...as they were about to throw a lot of it away. They said they eventually...but quickly found buyers for the stuff. Most had not moved as replacement parts since the cars they went to were just a few years old. This is common. You have cars made in 1973. By 1980...few will exist. Any replacemnet parts left over get forgotten cause no one orders the parts anymore. Hop 20 years into the future when people are restoring those cars....and your original market...or part of it, has returned. Ray

ecdez · Post by **ecdez** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:46 am

Wish I had a warehouse full of parts I had forgotten about.

That's a nice lookin' car man. I'd like to get myself a 2 door some day.

ubercrap · Post by **ubercrap** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:15 am

raygreenwood wrote:Gotta be one somewhere. Someone is sitting on them. Many times, people buy vast warehouses of parts and put them in storage until they can get around to them. The reason why they are so hard o locate, is that in this day and age of computer everything, inventory, if someone has not inventoried a parts stash, they have no computer record and have no time to search for...what you need.
Tell you what I do have....an NOS rear window for 411/412 with defroster in the factory box. After painting...it drops into my baby . The company that found it for me ...said it had an inch of dust on it an had been in a corner of the warehouse that had broken lightbulbs and no one had gotten anything from there in years, so they didn't ever care to see what was in the boxes on the shelves. Whatever it was...it didn't sell, so why bother. They had just starting cleaning it up to add some new stiage space. An interprising person had decided to just simply record whatever #'s they found...as they were about to throw a lot of it away. They said they eventually...but quickly found buyers for the stuff. Most had not moved as replacement parts since the cars they went to were just a few years old. This is common. You have cars made in 1973. By 1980...few will exist. Any replacemnet parts left over get forgotten cause no one orders the parts anymore. Hop 20 years into the future when people are restoring those cars....and your original market...or part of it, has returned. Ray

Yep, just like that warehouse find in Hong Kong. You know the business that's selling the parts does has an office in Manila also...

raygreenwood · Post by **raygreenwood** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:05 am

Hey...I buddy now wholives in Hong Kong. We ride to work together every morning. Maybe I can persuade him to drop by with a digital camera. Ray