Making my weekly run to Target for some tasty beverages, I encountered this sitting in the back of the lot.
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It's a VW Type 3 "Notchback". The notchback body style was never offered in the US where VW was afraid of cannibalizing Type 1 "Beetle" sales, this car likely came down from Canada or a serviceman bringing it back from Germany. Americans could buy the coupe-like Fastback or the station wagon ("Variant")
Squareback though.
Looks like this one has some rat rod-inspired pinstriping 'round back...
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...and the "1600" badge on the trunklid indicates that it's a post-1966 car.
Not sure how I managed to frame this shot so poorly.
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But there it is in it's (limited) glory. Still I wouldn't kick it out of the garage. I'd just strip the stripes.
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