Anyone know what car this is?
Anyone know what car this is?
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bleasknees

Original Poster:

2 posts

188 months

Saturday 15th January 2011
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As you can tell by the post I'm not a pistol head, but I fell in love with this car. Please someone tell me what it is...

Google [bot]

6,828 posts

210 months

Saturday 15th January 2011
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VW Type 3 Fastback

bleasknees

Original Poster:

2 posts

188 months

Sunday 16th January 2011
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Thanks very much

y282

20,566 posts

201 months

Sunday 16th January 2011
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bleasknees said:
As you can tell by the post I'm not a pistol head, but I fell in love with this car. Please someone tell me what it is...
nice. they've got that looking just right.

911cab

113 posts

234 months

Sunday 16th January 2011
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I had one of those in 1973 it's VW 1600TL. smile

BigBob

1,471 posts

254 months

Monday 17th January 2011
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First car I drove after passing my test. smile

BB

TubbyNorman

215 posts

210 months

Wednesday 19th January 2011
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Also known as the VW 411 ?

FranKinFezza

1,073 posts

208 months

Saturday 22nd January 2011
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And this is newsworthy how?

shakotan

10,862 posts

225 months

Saturday 22nd January 2011
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TubbyNorman said:
Also known as the VW 411 ?
Nope, that's a Type 4, not a Type 3.

Type 3


Type 4


Two different cars in the VW range.

LuS1fer

43,473 posts

274 months

Monday 24th January 2011
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What's a pistol head? wink

Galsia

2,266 posts

219 months

cardigankid

8,879 posts

241 months

Friday 28th January 2011
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These are really good cars, seriously, but an acquired taste.

They came from the pre-Golf era when VW had one blisteringly successful product, the beetle, not much else, and a bit of a problem with how to replace it, so they came up with a series of Beetle-derived rear engined models, an estate and a fastback as I recall. They plainly weren't going to take VW forward into the future, and the next effort was the K70, which was a total plug.

Then they came up with the Golf, and the rest is history.

If you have one of these, you should be aware that it comes from the same Hitler promoted DNA as the 911.