Down on the Street (or Target parking lot)

Making my weekly run to Target for some tasty beverages, I encountered this sitting in the back of the lot.
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...
...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.
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.

Down On The Street - Hamburg Edition

Sitting right outside my boutique Hamburg hotel was this nice Notchback.

Air-cooled VWs are seemingly rare here in northern Germany. Not sure if rust or strict emissions rules and safety inspections knocked them off the roads. In fact, the only other air-cooled VW I've seen here was this Käfer, spotted on my last trip here.
Like the Käfer, this 'Dub is definitely owned by an enthusiast. Clean, straight and debadged. I wonder what it's packing for an engine.
I really wouldn't care if it was a mild 1600cc dual port or some 2000+cc screamer. I still want it and wouldn't change a thing if it was mine. Although I do prefer the smaller taillight clusters that are on the other Notchback I spotted in Vista.
Well, I might add some auxiliary lighting to the relatively-blank snout.