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Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:37 am

p horvath wrote: we need to talk..............

Want me to paint it Azure Blue?

Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:05 am

Found this in 1979 on the Central California Coast. Towed it for $400.

Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:07 am

a few years back, I was driving across the country to deliver a bus which I had sold. along the way, the buyer of the bus called me to tell me that he had bought another bus, and he was wondering if my co-pilot could pick it up and deliver it to him. so a couple days later, we are driving both buses through a tollbooth in western pennsylvania, when the tollbooth attendant tells my buddy that she had some VWs for sale. we make a call to her husband, and find out that he had owned a repair shop from '62-'68, and packed all the stuff away in '69. the next morning, we got to look through the stash. there was a '54 oval, a '60 beetle, a TON of NOS parts, a TON of used parts, a TON of workshop equipment and tools, and a freshly rebuilt okrasa engine. my buddy didn't have the cash to make it happen, so I offered him a set of NOS empi 48IDAs as a finders fee if I could buy the stash. $5k later. it was mine.

I had to rent a truck to get most of the stuff to philadelphia, I sold some of it there to the locals, and shipped the rest home. six months later, the local whom I had given the '60 beetle to wasn't able to pick it up, so I put up an ad on thesamba and ended up giving the beetle to some guy in ohio, who seemed very happy and somewhat surprised to get it for free.

Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:24 am

Well, that indeed looks like a good deal.

Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:44 pm

Wiggy wrote: p horvath wrote: we need to talk..............

Want me to paint it Azure Blue?
Paul, I didn't think you had any use for splits

Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:19 pm

what split?

Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:00 pm

transportertalkman wrote: Found this in 1979 on the Central California Coast. Towed it for $400.

Damn that is a deal right there!!!! What happened to it ?

Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:51 am

this website...is free!

Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:45 pm

A guy came into my shop having heard that im into old air cooled vws and mentioned that he had an old toolkit for a beetle in his shed. He said that he would drop it off later on that day if i was interested. I said i was ,thinking it would be a toolroll for a 70s fat chick and forgot about it. True to his word, he turned up that same day with this. £40 sterling later ,i nearly shat my pants!

Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:57 pm

I was talking to Terry Schuler at the Vintage meet in Michigan back in '93 or '94. He had his Heb there and offered it to me for 10 GEEZ. I was fresh out of college and 10 Geez seemed like a hundred grand...

Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:17 pm

In 1993, it was.

Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:11 am

It's funny when you mention Terry Schulers Heb. I remember the day he bought it and picked it up for under $3000 grand. It was advertised in Hemmings Motor news and when I called about the car, the lady said it had just sold. He had it at Bug Out 6 in Manassas, Va. He was flat towing it behind his car. It was a medium green with some primer brown spots on it. The top was rough, but it was there. The Heb was pretty complete. I have pics of the car, but no way to scan them.

Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:18 am

Vealmonkey wrote: It's funny when you mention Terry Schulers Heb. I remember the day he bought it and picked it up for under $3000 grand. It was advertised in Hemmings Motor news and when I called about the car, the lady said it had just sold. He had it at Bug Out 6 in Manassas, Va. He was flat towing it behind his car. It was a medium green with some primer brown spots on it. The top was rough, but it was there. The Heb was pretty complete. I have pics of the car, but no way to scan them.

I'd hope he got it for under $3000 grand!!!

The guy I bought my '51 used to own Heb #6. He bought it at Hershey in the 70s for $150.......!

Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:24 am

Wow! Stories like this never fail to blow me away. I just pulled the album out and it was Bug Out 8 in May 85, not Bug Out 6. I had an email request to take digital pics of my pictures, so I just did. Hopefully the person I sent the pics to will post them on here. They are not the best pics, but it was still a Heb and I was 23 and it was quite a big deal for me then. It was big money for me back then, but I really would have spent it to get that car. I would have pulled the money out of my savings to get it. LOL

Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:31 pm

A mint, original 52 Split for sale at $2500 and a restored KDF (can't recall the year) for $5000. This was in 1977. Had to make due with my $400 64 Beetle as i couldn't afford either.

Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:53 pm

The first thing that pops to my mind was a couple years ago I found a 25hp fuel pump tin.
It was in someone's FREE box at a swap meet.

Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:56 am

Vealmonkey wrote: Wow! Stories like this never fail to blow me away. I just pulled the album out and it was Bug Out 8 in May 85, not Bug Out 6. I had an email request to take digital pics of my pictures, so I just did. Hopefully the person I sent the pics to will post them on here. They are not the best pics, but it was still a Heb and I was 23 and it was quite a big deal for me then. It was big money for me back then, but I really would have spent it to get that car. I would have pulled the money out of my savings to get it. LOL

Patrick, here it is. The heb 422 you mentioned

Thanks for sending them. 8)

Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:38 am

I guess I'll revive this old thread for fun.....
In 2011 on a lead for a 13 window bus I found, I called the owner of the bus and he told me pretty quick, sorry it just sold yesterday. I said ok well that sucks, well just for kicks I see the front end of a black bug sticking out from behind the bus in the craigslist photos so i ask, whats the story on that black bug....and he tells me, (no joke) O thats some old 50's convertible with them flip up things behind the doors! Trying not to trip over myself I asked, "well would you sell that" he said, "you actually want that ol thing?"....too make a long story short I called into work the next day, made the 12 hour trip and rolled home with my original black paint 54 oval vert for 500 bucks. Came with a free 100mm gas tank for it.......
I couldnt make this up, it was one of the coolest things thats happened to me while scoring vw stuff.

Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:40 am

I don't see it listed in your signature. Did you keep it?

Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:08 am

Blue Baron wrote: I don't see it listed in your signature. Did you keep it?
X2!!