Empi multispoke wheels, a wood-slat roof rack, ride height augmentation, and a garish paint job (and do I spy an “over-the-top” header/muffler exhaust?); does it really get any better than that? This is how Nevada does Cali-style, apparently. Whether “correct” or not, I don’t seem to mind, as this car looks like a great cruiser to me. I will admit, though, that I tend to prefer my Type-3s with a bumper-ectomy, and sporting a bit less chrome. With some black paint and a scouring pad, the mirrors, window trims, door handles, roof rack, signal light trim, and headlight trims would all make the car look a lot more cohesive. There is nothing more annoying to me than a hodgepodge of black and chrome trim bits on a car. If your wiper arms are black, and you have a chrome antenna on your vintage car, you are part of the problem! In what amounts to a longer and slightly more accommodating beetle, this Squareback would probably make a decent family truckster for someone with a neckbeard, an affinity for filming longboard skateboarders in super 8, and chugging PBR in between bouts of shouting “Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes” lyrics at bonfires. I imagine that there are hipsters out there somewhere (Brooklyn?)  that can’t wait to have children so they can justify driving something like this. Come to think of it, my neck beard has been filling in quite well lately, and I’ve been known to sip a few of Milwaukee’s finest red, white, and blue cans. Maybe I need to get myself a Squareback… I know this, though; If this Volkswagen were to be in my garage, it would certainly be the recipient of a hotter engine. Lately I’ve been intrigued by the idea of using a performance-built Harley-Davidson V-twin in the back of an old VW. I think the paint on this car is obnoxious enough that it would lend itself well to such a motivational unit. So let’s hear it, how would you make this yellow three door wagon your own? All images ©2014 Hooniverse/Bradley C. Brownell, All Rights Reserved. [For those of you following along at home, yes, that is my 1997 Boxster on the left of the final photo above.]