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I agree with all of the comments about handling improvement, but in my opinion the key thing here is:  "If you can weld it'll be a great winter project. "

Getting the mounting brackets in the right place is crucial to the success of the rear wheel alignment, but as Rick mentions, there are jigs available to make the placement of the mounts really accurate.  The key to success is the quality of the welds, so either you weld the brackets in or get a mobile welder to drop by and do it for you.  Those guys service trucks and heavy equipment all the time so you should have one near you to google.   They can weld them in, right in your garage/shop.

Once those are in and painted, assembling the diagonal arm and spring plates should be straight-forward.  You can use regular VW sedan arms and hubs for a 1970 or so sedan and you can go the Type 2 (bus) route on the axles or even go nuts with modified Porsche 924/944 CV joints like I used, but for any engine under a 2,110, the stock sedan axles should be fine and you can get those anywhere, like NAPA.

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