Mk3f.t.w asked me to do this, so:

Hi. Im A-P from Savonlinna, Finland.
I'm 20 years old.

One day, I was watching pages where, people had linked my pictures (aaperi.kuvat.fi)
"hmmm... Slamburglars... sounds interesting... I wonder which picture?"
I found picture of my friends jetta mk2 w/bags which I've taken.

Well I registered to forum and posted few pics of my old banger:



It's: Vw Type 3 fastback -69 also called Vw 1600TL
It has flat four aircooled engine with 2x 36 solex carbs.

I got it from my grandpa in fall -08.
It was rusty and ugly as h*ll:


It took me about 2 years to finish it:

With steelies (4.5x15 + 145/65 & 6x15 + 185/55):


Interior is original. Only floor matts have been changed to new:



Maybe the main thing which make this to turn heads is, Stance:

Type 3 has similiar torsionbar suspension as beetle.
Front axle is bit different but, this thing can be lowered by turning control arms in splines, like beetles rear end.

Front end setup: 3 spline drop with very short shocks
Rear end setup: 2 spline drop with very short shocks

Wheels are quite a rare stuff
Oz Vega with porsche 5x130 bolt pattern and small offset.
7x15 offset 23 + 165/50
8x15 offset 11 + 195/50 (going to chance to 185/45 or 195/45)

One finnish guy(lives in Åland) found them from swedish auction.
He buy'd and sent them to me.
It was bit to strugle to make them fit but, I made it




Week ago, I was in summers first event with type 3 and instantly got asked to make, story to one of finish biggest car magazines

For next summer im planning to do:
- Airride with beetles front axle.
- New window/trunk/door seals
- Original front fenders (now it has glassfiber fenders. They don't fit propely)
- Maybe some 45mm bike ITB's along megasquirt
- and lots of other small things.

Here you can find all pics about my rides: http://aaperi.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Cars/Omat/
I have skyline too but, theres nothing to tell about

ya i like this car, keep it up.

love it. looks great.

Nice fastback bro.i was thinking bout kicking me up one or a squareback.

wow I'm loving this car! nice work bro

wow. very nice car. the wheels were worth the work. cant wait to see the beetle front suspension. congrats on the feature in the finish magazine.

my goodness.
so good

very clean...nicely done. welcome

beutiful fastback
welcome

edit
woops sorry

Very cool man. How big of a pain is it gonna be to swap the front beams? I know it was a bit of a head ache to put a king pin beam in my bay window. Keep up the good work.

YUM. That interior is simply amazing. Welcome, Finland!

this car is soo much cooler than the 4 doors we got here.

It's not a Notchback. Notchbacks had trunks.




Huh? We got fastbacks here too.

Fastback.



Four doors?

Nice Notch! I love seeing aircooled's representing! What did you do to fit the wheels? I really like the way the car sits, especially out back! I also saw you have dual carbs... did the Euro T3's ever come with fuel injection, or was that a North America thing? My FI is running funny right now, and I need to source out some FI parts (AAR, etc.).


I have a '69 Squareback ('69 is the BEST year for these cars IMO!). I have to get her out and get her tuned so I can run her again... fml unobtainable parts!

fuck im on crack.

ok they look better than the 2 door pieces of shit we have here. the fastback is so much better than the squareback

Well, your in luck because we got the fastbacks too.

the type 3 came in the wagon, notch back, and fastback. all 3 were 2 doors and we got all 3 in America

Thanks everybody
Little update to those who don't read The Samba

After Bug Run -11, it was time to go to summers first event.
KalisCruising -11. 150km's from Savonlinna to Kuopio.
When I was driving to kuopio, it rained like hell. Result: about 2000 gallons of water inside.
My car was in No Pokemon Shit row (Bunch of guys who hate cars ruined with glassfiber and love clean and stanced cars)
Everybody liked my car. Guy who shoots and writes finlands main "tuning"-magazine, fell in love with my car in pre-event-meet and took pics immediately. Last week he told that he's gonna make story about it :
After event:


Next event was:
Old Timer Run -11
Only 100km's from Savonlinna to Mikkeli.
Once again, everybody loved my car. Everybody wanted to know story behind my car. Everybody kept wondering how in the hell I can drive it (I guess it's low or they are just old )
When I was driving home, half way car just stalled. I tried to find reason but, everything was ok except, there wasn't fuel comming out of fuel pump. I checked pump, it was ok. I guess the engine/carbs/fuel pump were so hot, that gasoline just vaporised (turned to fumes).
We towed 60km's to my home garage. I tried to start it and it was alive.
Maybe it cooled down. I don't know.


Week after stalling it was time to go: No Pokemon Shit Big Meet -11
440km's from Savonlinna to Jämijärvi.
I just thought: F*ck it, if it breaks, it breaks. It took 6,5 hours to get there but it was worth it. Vw made it.
I had longer trip than everybody else. Second came from 400km away(from Iisalmi)
I had oldest and unreliabliest car.
Everybody liked my car and kept wondering how I managed to get there.
Oh, I were only who were sober and I! managed to lock my self out of my car with keys in side of car


Last weekend I were in Mikkeli again. This time:
Bug in Finn -11
Once again good event and bunch of very nice cars.
My early bay and air ride fever won't go down....
My friends bagged mk2 jetta:

This with bit of lowering and nice wheel and I would be pleased

Juha's very nice -66 fasty:


I have driven 5000km after registration, which was in april

Beautiful VW!

very nice. cars are meant to be driven!

very nice, I cant wait for show season to start here. Gotta get my bus in the weeds a bit more though. T3 is lookin so sweet man, keep it up.

What we have here


oh, rear wheels are going to be front wheels and front wheels are going to be rear ones.
With little bit wider lips

car is going to be great. that air and wider wheels....yumm

yes. gonna be great.

Nice can't wait to see her finished

I found this from my mailbox.

I guess mk3f.t.w. likes my car

glad you got the stickers

If I could afford to, I'd fly to your house and give you a high five.

Gooood morning vietnaaaam!
Welcome to round 2!


Winter is coming, so is summer.
Only 5-6 months of time to make all the mods.

Nothing awesome on this update but, sooon...

Saturday, I got inspiration to do something.
I removed, hood, front fenders, front bumber, gas tank and some other small stuff.

Yesterday I dropped front axle off.
I ordered bearings for the new axle. 6 needle bearings = 110€




So, next time when I go to garage, I will start doing the Jig for the new axle.

Btw: Should this be in Builds gategory?

yeah just make a build. cant wait to see the progress

Im jealous, this is gonna be shwing.

There can be 2cm's cut from front axle, so maybe I could take 1cm...
Then it will be against front apron

Lets hope that, lower control arm will get clearance with new ball joint.
Thank god that, I buyed 7.5cm drop spindles. With them control arm are in better angle. And with stock spindles
it could not be that low.







Now 8x15 offset 11 front wheels are bit too out, because drop spindles increase track 8.5mm.
So I'm re-building them with "zero lip-style" aka center-outer lip-inner lip. But with lip. You know what I mean. So the offset will be ~21
Hmm... rear ones gonna have same thing done, maybe with that, there might be clearance to get 9x15 offset ~10 instead of 8.5x15 offset ~5

To those, who don't know how beetle beam with bag is constructed

Front end works




Crappy video

wow! looking good! nice work!

real good stuff, digging the type 1 front! Is it a bolt in swap or does the pan need to be modified?

Where I can buy inspriration...
Haven't done nothing in past 2 months. Thats really annoying.

Well. Tonight got some, when I opened facebook and saw that Stance Is Everything had posted this on their wall:


Maybe I'll drag myself into the garage tomorrow...

There's one problem. I'm broke as hell.
I need to finish my car before June. And Im still short of:
2x 2" outer lips, 2x 3" outer lips + new bolts and nuts for OZ's, Megasquirt, fuelpump and few sensors for that, better camshaft, copper hard lines for the trunk assembly etc. etc.....

So sponsor needed I just have to do things I can afford....

I have only been fidling with my daily a little bit:


I accidently bought another set of OZ Vegas. 7x15 offset 33 and 8x15 offset 20 with 5x112 bolt pattern.
These's will be converted to 4x100 bolt pattern.
In miata pic theres type 3's origal 2.5" rear lip in test.

Unnecessary post.
Maybe tomorrow you see something new....

Unnecessary post again. Just fidling...




Those are rear wheels, well... front wheels now.
Tomorrow I'll order 3" lips for rear wheels and new bolts + nuts.
Next week I'm in vacation so, maybe I'll have some time to make rear bags

love the car man. the oz's look so good on there and thats cool that you are widening them keep it up! cant wait to see it finished.

very cool. is the mega squirt for the aircooled?

Year ago it looked like this:


Now rear end has bag in drivers side too.
Maybe rear end drops bit more when other side is finished.
Now I need few weeks of vacation from this vehicle....

Highest:

Lowest:



And yes.
Megasquirt is for Vw. I have motorcycle 45mm itb waiting for assembly

lookin great man, and interesting idea with the ITB and 'squirt, that'll be cool. Running AND starting consistently? doesn't very volkswagen to me....

I'm loving it

Man, Volkswagens are underestimated. Anywho ♥__________♥

very cool, great work

Been a while. I've been totally without motivation.

Rear end sitting just bit better



It were on magazine too. With old pics but, whatever.
My friend is photographying to that paper and they needed something to fill the gap. So:



Here are all the pics that Jape took in 2011: JT-media

oh my hamburgers. cant wait til the fitment is like this all around. and this is cruising height on the high way. hammered

Sweet fasty !
Nice to see some more aircooled action on here

Just spamming. Testing height with steelies.
Rear end is lifted 10-20mm, so I can move it bit easily.
Front end is static, Yo. Until I get new airshocks etc.
Slowly, slowly. Maybe next weekend I'll get rear ends bags working and test fit Oz's again.