Car details

Owner:

Felix Ehrhardt, Goslar

Type:

311, VW 1600 L

Year:

1967

color:

Beat Black

Body:

Folded wheel arches, rear pop-outs, chromed door and lid locks, chromed screws for fenders and gas tank, red and flat taillight glasses, white turn signal glasses

Interior:

Stock seats, upholstered with red synthetic leather, hat rack with black synthetic leather, grey three-point seatbelts, modified speedo, Motometer tach with additional shiftlight, 52 mm VDO oil temperature gauge, both mounted underneath the dashboard, stock shifter with quick shift kit

Engine:

Type 3, 1776cc, lightened flywheel, SCAT chrommoly gland nut, 69 mm stock crankshaft, forged 90,5 mm Mahle pistons and barrels, modified 043 heads, 35.5 mm inlet valves, 32 mm outlet valves, Engle W125 camshaft, two-piece Empi lifters, compression ratio 10.7:1, two 40 IDF Weber carbs with long CB velocity stacks, Bugpack linkage, elektric Pierburg fuel pump, blue Bosch coil, Bosch 009 distributor, HD oil pump, small Racimex oil cooler next to transmission, HD oil filter, thermostat, painted tin ware and engine case, 38 mm Thunderbird header, self-made muffler

Transmission:

1964 beetle gearbox

Chassis:

Front end lowered more than three outer splines, rear end approx.1 3/4 outer spline, shortened front stoppers, Variant anti-roll bar, swing axle rear, stock shocks on front, yellow Koni shocks on rear end, Variant torsion bars on rear end, torque bars

Brakes:

Discs on front end, rear end modified to bug brakes in 5/130 pattern, 19mm wheel brake cylinders

Wheels/tires:

Fuchs wheels polished and detailed in 5.5Jx15 front, rear 6Jx15 with 5 mm spacers, all wheels with additional welded hump, Bridgestone tires in 145/65-15 front, rear in 195/65-15, polished center caps with colored Porsche logo, alloy wheel bolts

History:

Felix got the Type 3 in 1999. He immediately disassembled his first aircooled car and restored it to the last screw. This took three years until May 2002. First, the notchback was in Resto Cal Look, in Winter '03/'04 it switched to Cal Look with a raised rear end and Fuchs wheels.

Best 1/4 mile ET:

15.680 seconds

Last update:

07/06/2022