Imagine this:

It's a late summer evening, and you've been cruising smoothly along the gently curving, scenic highway in your '65 Squareback for three hours. Your low-mileage, all-original engine's been humming like a dream, and you've had nothing but beeps & waves from your fellow drivers. (Must be the fresh wax job on the well-preserved original paint!)

You're about twenty minutes from home, been munching on some of your favorite goodies (from your NOS under-dash parcel tray, of course), and the stock Sapphire AM radio has been playing some of your favorite oldies all night, when suddenly...

The engine dies.

No expensive noises. No smoke. Just dies, as if somebody's pulled the key. You coast over to the side.

You pull your flashlight out, open the back hatch and lift up the engine cover. Everything looks fine. Open the front trunk and get your Hazet tool kit. You pop off the distributor cap with the screwdriver, and you find...

The ignition points adjusting screw has come loose, and the points have snapped closed!

You kind of chuckle to yourself, as you know you'll be back on the road in a couple of minutes, and you'll hardly have gotten yourself greasy in the process.

If VWType3.Org were that '65 Squareback instead of a Web server, you'd see it pulled over to the side of the road at the moment. No worries: just a minor snafu requiring a minor adjustment. We'll be crusing down the info superhighway again shortly.

Unlike that '65 Square, though, we're not completely shut down. You might like to jump to the following: