Bubs

Pics! We are cleaning it up right now, also getting new hubcaps and my fahter is a carpet cleaner, so we did all the upholstery, the dog hair and the mark on the arm rests are gone.

It appears to be very good mechanically, and everything works. It has 124,916 miles as of getting back home. Offtopic: There is a very nice Justy on ebay right now. It is in Maine, and very close to where I live. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4569573849&fromMakeTrack=true I know the reserve of this if anybody is interested.

We just purchased a new car, a '91 Subaru Legacy AWD. We purchased it for $700 at a car auction we frequent, it has no rust anywhere, is also has a CD Player and ice cold AC. This Legacy has a manual transmission. This car is also great because I have been looking at a Subaru Justy on ebay for $1400.00, with part-time 4WD, but this is even better since it is full-time and in much better condition. If still running strong once I have my license, this will be my daily-driver. This Legacy has records from San Fransicso, which is odd since we live across the country. Which may explain the lack of rust. I will have pictures soon, I just decided to post now. I will have a pic of it next to the 360 soon!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Subaru-VAN-SUBARU-360-VAN-Emergency-vehicle-micro-mini-car_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6467QQitemZ4570155260QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW It is in very good shape. Just letting you guys know.

http://www.craigslist.org/nby/car/92064971.html Quote: 1969 Subaru 360 Sedan, complete car. All parts intact, and on the vehicle. Interior in good condition and intact. Exterior some dents, surface rust, paint decent, one small area of body rot by engine exhaust. Engine, tranny, wheels, mirrors, lights intact. Doors and windows operate fully, all hardware intact. Original key, and owners manuel. Car has not been started for several years. Clean California title, Odo. reads 14,500. Car has always been in S.F. Bay Area. This is a good one, HIGHLY RESTORABLE!!! Another for prospective owners.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Subaru-360-PICKUP-SUBARU-360-2-CYL-MICRO-PICKUP-NOS-USED-PARTS_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6467QQitemZ4569984214QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW#ebayphotohosting Apparant problems: DOES NOT currently run windshield is cracked Good points: Very little rust The hard to find muffler has been welded to strengthen but is in good solid condition. Even the always missing backup light lens is there Many extra parts Very good project idea, too far away from us. Just thought I would let any prospective owners know.

The engine actually started right up after a few days, replaced the spark plugs and cleaned the carb. It runs at this point.

Hi again, over the past few months I have been downloading episodes and watching an Anime(Japanese Cartoon) which features a Subaru 360 Young with a soft top. The show is called "Get Backers", and the main character owns the car. It happens to have some sort of a 1200cc engine(with nitrous) tuned to 195 horsepower! I would love to have that in real life. Those are some pictures I found. The show basically runs along the lines of the two main characters running a service in which people that have things that are lost or stolen hire them to get the thing back. This can range from a kidnap victim to a stolen video game to a vital part of an atomic bomb. The 360 is used often in these jobs, although often they wind up losing their money, as in their first job shown in the series they lose all their money thanks to Ban's habit of inventing his own parking spaces. The show revolves around a very good storyline with alot of action and even comedy, eventiually leading up to a conspiricy and the two's dark past. If you are interested in finding places to get the show downloaded due to the interest in the 360 I can give you the information. Sincerely, Jake Perkins.

Hi again, I did just send an email to "Subie Gal" with the link to the photobucket account and a long text about the history of the paticular one we own. Here is that history of what we know: This car was never broken-in, with only the 16 miles it got before being shipped to a(unhappy?) Detroit dealer. The floorboards look brand new.Iit never sold, sat for two decades in Detroit, was vandalised, then the previous "first" owner trucked it from Detroit to Kendall Park, New Jersey. He says he has met Ed Parsil before. He seemed to have many different projects that he never has time to work on, as he has a Plymouth Superbird(Worth over $100,000 in good condition in some cases) rotting away in his garage being used as a parts shelf. The 360 gained quite a bit of surface rust, but luckily no rot-through. We purchased that one and a 1968 parts car he had for $700.00, and after buying a new van to replace our Chevrolet Astro that died on the first trip, went and trucked them home, one at a time, on a 5/10 trailer. We got the engine running after a few days, although the gas tank on ours needs to either be replaced or fixed by a professional. It is currently at a storage facility, hopefully awaiting a bodyshop by the end of the month. We had an upholstery professional give us an estimate of $2500.00 to not only reupholster the car in either vinyl or a cloth color of our choice, but we will be removing the hard top and having a custom made soft top made, keeping the hard back window in place. The body shop will be fixing the body and painting it an Eggshell White Pearl, for an original look with a small twist. The interior will be redone in black cloth to match the top. Our 360 is going to be a mostly stock with a few customisations to make it truely our own. I plan on using this as my first car for school and work, to take advantage of the great gas mileage in this time of rising fuel prices. I will need to purchase a car for our tough winters, since the 360, especially with a soft top would simply not work.

Hi there, My name is Jake Perkins and I am fourteen years old. I am currently in the process of restoring a 1969 Subaru 360 Deluxe Sedan, which only has 16 miles, due to the fact that it never sold during its time. We are making great progress on the car, I am going to use it as my first car, and with the rising gas prices, I will be taking advantage of the 66 miles to the gallon on two cylinder, two stroke 356cc engine. The entire vehicle weighs 900 pounds. (sorry if the info below seems to repeat, I just copied it from the introduction I made on another forum to save myself time) http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/2005_06193600116.jpg This was Subaru's first car, built in 1958 to about 1971. Ours is a 1969, they were imported into the US in 1968 to 1971. Under the bonnet is a two-cylinder, two-stroke 356cc engine. The vehicle only weighs in at 900 pounds and can fit in the back of a regular size pickup truck. The 360 came in a few different versions. We are restoring a Deluxe sedan, which was the base model. There is a pickup and van, which are forward-control(flat nose) and use the same engine. The engine gets 66 miles to a gallon of gas. There is a sport model, called the Young, and a... I will just give you the wikipedia article that I contributed to. The picture in that article is one I took. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_360 Let me state at this time that it is my father and I restoring this car, I am only fourteen years old. The entire gallery http://photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/?start=0 Page 6 is the first pictures, obviously page one is the most recent pictures. We are making great progress with it.