Hello everyone.
I'm new member here as I bought my first T34 last summer (2010),
a '65 project car from Germany. Basically drivable but needs a lot of TLC before registration and being reliable (hopefully somewhere in summer 2011), so I'll tell a bit of my other VWs, old and current:
I've had some kind of flat four since 1983 when I bought my first Beetle ('66) and after that I've had three Beetles, all sold by 1994. But I liked the engine and Karmann made a very nice chassis so when I had the economic opportunity (and found one for sale) to buy [url=http://http://kharon.suomiforum.com/www/ghia/index_e.html]a typ14[/url] in 2000 ('63) I bought it immediately. Now I can't sell it anymore, unless to change it to a convertible.
I've fully restored (but period wrong) 12V 1915cc engine with dual DellOrto on my living room floor waiting for the installation, we'll see what happens, hopefully in summer 2011. (pics in engine-section)
I bought a half of
a '74 typ2 in 2004 and it was a bus, so it had seats (albeit home made) for 9 and lot of room which Ghia didn't have.

On the other hand, Ghia had floor, which was mostly missing from the bus from the passenger compartment and I used about a month in one summer to weld it back into shape (most pictures from that era). Engine (1600cc) was also in very bad shape so we did a full restoration on it and made it a 1915cc engine with stock Solex, an interesting combination: Much more torque than the original engine had but not much more top speed.
I managed to inherit half of
a '61 typ2 panel van in 2002 and it just sat in a shed into 2006 (having already been there from 1978) as I was working on '74 bus. It's now registered and actually quite nice for being (mostly) unrestored car and having been in very heavy use as the previous (and first) owner (my step grandfather) was a blacksmith (!) who used the van to transport iron (!). Bars, plate, wire, you name it. That shows too, a lot of dents and bumps everywhere.
But as I'm the second owner and history from new is known, I really can't restore the van to look like new. I'll fix small things here and remove a dent there but overall impression should be that nothing has been done, even if it is.
8000 kilometers in summer 2010, my daily driver when my real daily driver was under service and my motorbike was broken. Lot of vehicles and only so much time and energy to repair them.
I'm also one of the maintainers of the website of
Finnish Volkswagen Association, which has about 2800 members now. Our site is in Finnish as many of our members aren't fluent English speakers, but galleries might be worth looking anyway.