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Our Fastback

Our car is a 1973 Volkswagen 1600E Fastback.

Pictures

General pictures of the car.
Front inner wing restoration.
Rear underseat and general restoration.

Some Details

Thanks to the Owner's Club Website for decoding the information plates.

Model

The VW Service Record booklet for the car, which we still have, says its full type / model number is 312331.

The VIN is 3132095614. This means it is a Fastback (31), 1973 model (3), Mark 2 (2), 095614 in the production run for that year.

Age

The production plate says 18-5-3237. This means it was build in the 18th week of the 1973, on a Friday. That works out as Friday 4th May, 1973.

The car was delivered in June 1973, to "Black and White Garages", Harvington, near Evesham, Worcestershire.

We bought the car in June, 2001. It had spent its last 6 years less than 1 mile away from us, and we didn't even know! We just happened to see a postcard advert for it in the local supermarket. A couple of weeks later it would have been in Volksworld Magazine and then gone for ever. Before that it had 5 other owners.

Colour

It is Iberian Red. The paint code is L31F (Iberishrot).

Engine

The car is still running its original engine, number U0511180, which has 130,000 miles on it. Thanks to the fuel injection, it still starts easily, runs well, and is capable of 80 MPH on the motorway.


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