Tech and Community Help For Air-Cooled VWs
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It is a real low mileage vehicle, but it has been a bit dorked with.TrollFromDownBelow wrote:$56k? For a bay without the original motor? guess you can ask for anything.... but what you get....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Volkswagen ... 2289188838
edit.... stand corrected, they do provide the original engine. Still seems high....
" For Sale - Celebrity owned 1978 Original VW Bus @ 110,000 miles all original paint upholstery and parts"Amskeptic wrote:It is a real low mileage vehicle, but it has been a bit dorked with.TrollFromDownBelow wrote:$56k? For a bay without the original motor? guess you can ask for anything.... but what you get....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Volkswagen ... 2289188838
edit.... stand corrected, they do provide the original engine. Still seems high....
So, what do I sell the BobD for?
Ad Copy:
For Sale 1978 Original VW Bus @ 110,000 miles all original paint upholstery and parts
$56,000.00
(comes with spare all original '77 Westfalia @ 67,800 miles)
Now that I have been wrenched from my beloved Lexus LS400 creampuff old man car, I am hanging on to the remainder of the fleet with more desperation. This is something I must get a handle on. I see my cars as irreplaceable and sometimes good traveling companions. Release! Release!tommu wrote: " For Sale - Celebrity owned 1978 Original VW Bus @ 110,000 miles all original paint upholstery and parts"
That'll do it.
Did you sell the Lexus?Amskeptic wrote:
Now that I have been wrenched from my beloved Lexus LS400 creampuff old man car, I am hanging on to the remainder of the fleet with more desperation. This is something I must get a handle on. I see my cars as irreplaceable and sometimes good traveling companions. Release! Release!
ColinNo
Yes, and I rue, I regret, it was the nicest example I know of. It has another 200,000 miles left in it.TrollFromDownBelow wrote:Did you sell the Lexus?Amskeptic wrote:
Now that I have been wrenched from my beloved Lexus LS400 creampuff old man car, I am hanging on to the remainder of the fleet with more desparation. This is something I must get a handle on. I see my cars as irreplaceable and sometimes good traveling companions. Release! Release!
ColinNo
I think you might be right . . .TrollFromDownBelow wrote:Me thinks you need to turn your Benz into your next cream puff old mans car ... salt and snow be damned.
I had a later model version of that ..... IIRC an '87? AWESOME roadtrip car. It would pull 22-24mpg highway....loved the growl of the dual overhead cam engine. I had intentionally bought it as a flip car ... got a killer deal on it, because it needed paint. Painted it, and bought leather die of the correct color code, and redyed it myself, car looked really good too...and it ran awesome. Toyed with the idea of keeping it, but had owned a '77 and remembered how EXPENSIVE the parts were for it. Just as an example, $150 for plug wires (20 years ago) and that was the cheapest I could find. Bought the '87 for 1400 and sold for 3200. the '77 I bought for 550 and sold for 2400 (I painted it too). So they've been good flip cars! :)Amskeptic wrote:I think you might be right . . .TrollFromDownBelow wrote:Me thinks you need to turn your Benz into your next cream puff old mans car ... salt and snow be damned.
This one here is a '78, just like the BobD. And, just like my '78 BMW 530i, this eats gas at a prodigious clip, 13-15mpg.TrollFromDownBelow wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:04 pmI had a later model version of that ..... IIRC an '87? AWESOME roadtrip car. It would pull 22-24mpg highway....loved the growl of the dual overhead cam engine. I had intentionally bought it as a flip car ... got a killer deal on it, because it needed paint. Painted it, and bought leather die of the correct color code, and redyed it myself, car looked really good too...and it ran awesome. Toyed with the idea of keeping it, but had owned a '77 and remembered how EXPENSIVE the parts were for it. Just as an example, $150 for plug wires (20 years ago) and that was the cheapest I could find. Bought the '87 for 1400 and sold for 3200. the '77 I bought for 550 and sold for 2400 (I painted it too). So they've been good flip cars! :)Amskeptic wrote:I think you might be right . . .TrollFromDownBelow wrote:Me thinks you need to turn your Benz into your next cream puff old mans car ... salt and snow be damned.
