1969 Subaru 360 Deluxe Sedan Best of Show Winner JCCS & Subie Fest 2022

Vehicle Description

Over View:

TheSubaru 360is a rear-engined, two-doorcity carmanufactured and marketed from 1958 to 1971 bySubaru. As the company's first automobile, production reached 392,000 over its 12-year model run. Between 1968-70, approximately 10,000 carswere exported to the US, with an original price of $1,297 ($11,364 in 2023 dollars). The 360 was imported to the United States by Malcolm Bricklin before he later manufactured his own cars.

None of them have been fully restored to original condition as a result of shortage of parts.

Project: Parts were not really available for full restoration until we started this project last year. With alliance in Japan, now we have the largest selection of parts for Subaru 360 Series. We restored this beautiful 1969 Subaru 360 Deluxe Sedan as a product engineering project of our new line of parts department last year. jdm-car-parts.com The goal was to create as many reproduction parts as possible during the restoration process. We reproduced from weather strips, hub caps, rocker panels, decals, seals, gaskets, roof parts, interior parts, lens, and even stainless muffler. Up to this point, our investment isestimated over $140K for this little car. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description of this car: This car only has 5000 Original miles. And always stayed locally in Southbay area (Los Angeles, Southern California) I am the 3rd owner of the car is previous owner was my friend who kept this car in garage for 18 years. Every nuts and bolts have been either replaced or re-plated for this restoration. Many of under car or engine bay parts were bead blasted and powder coated at the highest quality Everything is done correctly with mainly parts made in Japan or US. We have full photo documented restoration process from the day one to finish. If you are a serious collector, there will not be another one of these out there in this quality as this is about as far as you can go in restoration of Subaru 360. This car won the following awards:Best of Show and Best Rare Car at JCCS (Japanese Classic Car Show) at Queen Mary, Long Beach CA in September 2017.Best of Show at Subie Fest Los Angeles, CA 2022 Buyer will be given all the photos of restoration process and a magazine that featured this car (Nostalgic Hero Magazine from Japan) *Japanese Subaru Car Club budges on the deck lid, Coca Cola bottles, hats, and Thermos bag in back seat are my personal item and will not come with the car. We ship everywhere in the world