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Sat May 27, 2006 4:52 pm

Now it doesnt have to be all about the Value, the one that just really got your pulse goin.

Mine I think was when I was goin the Wyo. Tech back in Winter of 90'. We were doin welding test cuttin up old cars for pieces to weld on. In the Pile I found a "W" decklid. I was like "No way, oh man it is"!!, asked my teacher if I could have it, said to talk to the head of the dept. I got it for $15 wasnt in the best shape but I sold it a few years later for $125. But just finding in the pile got me goin.

Sat May 27, 2006 5:22 pm

I found a junkyard I never saw about 7 years ago so decided to stop by to see if there's any VWs in there. He told me that 1 just came in a few weeks ago. I looked it, found something, went back to the owner and asked how much for the shifter in there. He said $8, paid the man, went back to the bug and unbolted the early Berg shifter then got the heck out of there :wink:

Also I got alot of eBay scores back in the days. Like a chipped split dash pod I won for $20, when I got it it had a KDF cog logo on back :!:

Sat May 27, 2006 6:18 pm

2 petri banjo steering wheel , one with the horn ring , for free , skim has one that I found. the other went in wolfsburg warehouse 56 vert.
4 real brms for 200$
ambo fans for 10$ etc etc etc

theres more................................

Sat May 27, 2006 7:39 pm

Empi Tach for some coronas and a lime.

Sat May 27, 2006 8:54 pm

I've never scored anything worth much :cry: but I'll keep looking :D

Sat May 27, 2006 9:07 pm

I told this before once, but my biggest/dumbest score was a fully equipped VW ambulance for either $300 or $350, I forget which. It was a split but I also forget the year.

I was driving home in Chicago one day in about 1980 and I saw this bus with a for sale sign on it outside a little steel mill on N. Clyburn. I stopped and it was an ambulance with everything inside-- stretcher, bandages, everything. It was being sold by a small steel mill that had bought it new because the insurance company made them. basically it had sat on the lot of the mill since it was new and had rusted but also had very low miles (it was the steel mill in that "Thief" movie with James Cann).

Anyway I bought it, went home, called Jeff Walters, and flipped it that evening. I made about $500 and thought I was pretty slick. Met Jeff at the airport next day and Jeff drove it away.

Pretty stupid, but $500 was serious cash for me back then.

Sat May 27, 2006 9:57 pm

My best deal was a early 4.5 for $60.00, I just asked my tire shop for a spare since I had none, they made a call and said " here's a thin spare for your trunk" I had no idea what I had for many years later.

I also have scored many odds and ends at my local pick your part, like a type 3 tripometer for $15.00

Sat May 27, 2006 10:17 pm

restojohnny wrote: I've never scored anything worth much :cry: but I'll keep looking :D

I'm on that list too! I'll continue looking in the Recycler magazine and one day I'll find something worth more than $5 and pay only a buck for it.

Sat May 27, 2006 11:43 pm

yhe right glenn you have all the cool stuff. :lol: billy

Sat May 27, 2006 11:52 pm

not to long ago i saw a mitsu eclipse, w/ some 4.5 earlies on it w/ some adapters....

bought her a new set of wheels and got 4 earlies..... :D

Sun May 28, 2006 12:33 am

I got two empi catalogs in workshop binders from a bloke in germany for £20 thats about $35 :)

Sun May 28, 2006 2:37 am

Best major score so far was finding 6 of these puppies (all new old stock):

Bought them for £250 each, sold them next day for £500 each. With the profits I bought this:

Which, 3 years later, looks like this:

Sun May 28, 2006 7:22 am

A Speedwell sterring whell for .....a Honda sterring whell found for free in a local junk yard! :roll: And the guy of the Speedwell: Well, you are a little nono dude!...Swap this old and durty wood sterring whell for this nice Honda!" 8)

Sun May 28, 2006 7:31 am

I saw a bug sitting in a drive way for a while. Finally asked if he wanted to sell it, he said yes, $300.00. Started looking at it, camber compensator, two trans. straps, hurst shifter, adjustable front end, widened 14's all the way around, and a ported and polished 1641 with dual carbs with less then 8000 miles on it. He also said he had a Karmann Ghia if I was interested, for $300.00. He had started to replace the floors and stopped. New engine less then 3000 miles on it. Only had a couple of small dents on the sides. I bought both of them. The ghia, I found a free pan that I welded in, replaced the rubber brake lines, MC, and gave it a tune-up and sold it for $1600.00. The bug is my 64 that I am now restoring.

Sun May 28, 2006 8:14 am

coad wrote: I told this before once, but my biggest/dumbest score was a fully equipped VW ambulance for either $300 or $350, I forget which. It was a split but I also forget the year.

I was driving home in Chicago one day in about 1980 and I saw this bus with a for sale sign on it outside a little steel mill on N. Clyburn. I stopped and it was an ambulance with everything inside-- stretcher, bandages, everything. It was being sold by a small steel mill that had bought it new because the insurance company made them. basically it had sat on the lot of the mill since it was new and had rusted but also had very low miles (it was the steel mill in that "Thief" movie with James Cann).

Anyway I bought it, went home, called Jeff Walters, and flipped it that evening. I made about $500 and thought I was pretty slick. Met Jeff at the airport next day and Jeff drove it away.

Pretty stupid, but $500 was serious cash for me back then.
That would have been Sheffield Foundry, a gritty coupola-melt iron
foundry. I spent lots of time there as a supplier in the late 70s/early 80s.
Don't remember the ambulance (but in those days I thought VWs were
just old cars). In fact in 1982 I was offered the job of Superintendent
at the place but turned it down. Foundry is now gone with an up-scale mall in its place.

Sun May 28, 2006 9:30 am

iowegian wrote: Foundry is now gone with an up-scale mall in its place.

Yeah, I went back and the whole neighborhood is just Yuppie Heaven now. Too bad, there were some neat businesses along that street.

I remember they would always leave the doors open at that foundry and in the winter I would walk past to get to the bus stop, and they never seemed to care if I stood in the doorway to warm up for a couple minutes. It looked like a going business back then.

Sun May 28, 2006 9:49 am

NOS early T3 abarth muffler scored here on the samba. This could very well be the only one left :-k I know there is a couple later ones out there but not any earlies that I know of.

Sun May 28, 2006 10:20 pm

I was writing an article for my local club's newsletter some years back, and I had taken a picture of a set of bus univents. my dad's business partner saw the pic and mentioned that he had a set of those with electric fans in them. an hour later, I got my first set of ambulance fans for $50. this was back when they were selling for $175, and I had very few rare parts (not that ambulance fans are that rare, but they seemed like it to me at the time.)

Tue May 30, 2006 6:55 am

I was working at this pharmacy and we also did ups shipping and was working on this package and this man said I noticed you are into those vws, I said yea, he said I got this thing you can bolt on to an early vw for more horsepower, he said I bought it years ago and never used it. I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said ahh it should be worth 75.00 if nothing else for the fact its a antique. later that day I went to his house paid him 75.00 and took home a complete in the original box judson super charger kit. uhhh yea I am into those vws :lol: :lol:

Tue May 30, 2006 7:58 am

Hi.
Very new to VWs myself, but know the buzz when you find a "Goodie" as I call them.
Have just identified my FIRST cool VW score. A NOS EMPI 2-spoke steering wheel (For 61 on, including Ghia, apparently). Took a lot of searching to find out what this was, but found a 1966 EMPI catalogue tonight (12.57am here in Tasmania, Australia) & my wheel is there in black & white. Super excited to have found something cool, rare & NOS.

Rob J