TheSamba.com :: View topic - 1946 split for sale for € 71.400 (~ $ 87.000)

Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:31 am

Thought some of you might want to see this:

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html...geNumber=1

This must be a record price for a 46 split!? :shock:

Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:08 am

:shock:

Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:20 am

I´ll translate the ad:

1.131 cm³, restored, for over 40 years in private posession, chassis constructed 1940, 1946 the car was constructed from leftovers, original color was olivegreen, Motor Nr.1-179989, very rare, the beetle was delivered to the Englisch Army - Police. LPD. Stgt.Nr.0396-post-war beetle (with one of the first) chassis-no.: 0082

Tomas

Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:52 am

Would be good to see some detailed pics of the car. I wonder if it really is a '40 chassis.

Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:44 am

Thats an awful lot of cash to get 60's wings and post 53 bumpers even from that 1 pic! But it could be an illusion? as the wheels and tyres are very cool and MASSIVE! :D

Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:10 am

It is possible that they builded it up in 1946 on a ´40 chassis but that would have to be prooved at the car.
Well what ever chassis, what I see on the pic seems not to be worth half way that price.

Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:20 am

mrsherbie wrote: Thats an awful lot of cash to get 60's wings and post 53 bumpers even from that 1 pic! But it could be an illusion? as the wheels and tyres are very cool and MASSIVE! :D

You beat me too it. Usual crap, someone posts a split for sale for an eye popping prince, and it has obvious wrong parts on it. Makes you wonder what else is incorrect on this $87,000 split.

Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:20 am

johnshenry wrote: mrsherbie wrote: Thats an awful lot of cash to get 60's wings and post 53 bumpers even from that 1 pic! But it could be an illusion? as the wheels and tyres are very cool and MASSIVE! :D

You beat me too it. Usual crap, someone posts a split for sale for an eye popping prince, and it has obvious wrong parts on it. Makes you wonder what else is incorrect on this $87,000 split.

Probably a welded up radio hole and some repop bumpers...lmao.

Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:26 am

phew !! good thing I read this thread ! Just cancelled my check :lol:

Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:14 pm

Do you have a thing for - the arteest formally known as "prince"? Seems like "it" might have some wrong parts on "it" too. "It" is kind of "eye-popping" tho' :lol:

johnshenry wrote: mrsherbie wrote: Thats an awful lot of cash to get 60's wings and post 53 bumpers even from that 1 pic! But it could be an illusion? as the wheels and tyres are very cool and MASSIVE! :D

You beat me too it. Usual crap, someone posts a split for sale for an eye popping prince, and it has obvious wrong parts on it. Makes you wonder what else is incorrect on this $87,000 split.

Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:48 pm

kdf38@netzero.net wrote: Do you have a thing for - the arteest formally known as "prince"? Seems like "it" might have some wrong parts on "it" too. "It" is kind of "eye-popping" tho' :lol:

johnshenry wrote: mrsherbie wrote: Thats an awful lot of cash to get 60's wings and post 53 bumpers even from that 1 pic! But it could be an illusion? as the wheels and tyres are very cool and MASSIVE! :D

You beat me too it. Usual crap, someone posts a split for sale for an eye popping prince, and it has obvious wrong parts on it. Makes you wonder what else is incorrect on this $87,000 split.

You lost me.

Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:01 pm

think typo John...eye popping "prince" ... Don't wrory Jhon I hvae been knwon to mkae a few mistkaes myslef. Tehy say lcak of sex cuases tpyo's. :shock:

Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:28 pm

Oh duh. Firefox spell checker didn't catch that one. Maybe because it didn't know how to suggest a symbol as an alternate spelling....

Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:05 pm

MDKG wrote: This must be a record price for a 46 split!? :shock: It's only a record price if somebody pays it.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's throw up a picture of a random car for sale so we can all tear it to shreds for sport.

Oops ... too late ... 8)

Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:37 pm

Has anybody spoken to the owner or requested more pics?

Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:01 am

Blue Baron wrote: MDKG wrote: This must be a record price for a 46 split!? :shock: It's only a record price if somebody pays it.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's throw up a picture of a random car for sale so we can all tear it to shreds for sport.

Oops ... too late ... 8)

MDKG wrote: Thought some of you might want to see this:

You don't have to look. :D

Oh, and '46 random?

Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:15 am

The car belongs to a Volkswagen dealer in Göttingen before. who hat a small collection of interesting cars. The company was sold and most of the collection went to a professional dealer next to Göttingen. The car is everything else, but not as old as the seller exapt. The Chassis with the early number is a regular split one, the body is a mid 1949 with small gastank and papered glove-boxes. You can think and talk about the car what you want - but you can't say that the car has the wrong taillights as most of the "restored" cars of these years...

I have pute some pictures of the car a got last summer into the gallery...

Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:27 am

:shock: I saw the gallery...71k??? this???

Sorry to the seller but until now this is the most absurd price! there is lots of wrong parts on this...

Regards
Frank

Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:34 am

Björn Schewe wrote: You can think and talk about the car what you want - but you can't say that the car has the wrong taillights as most of the "restored" cars of these
:shock: Well that is one solution to the difficult 49 taillight problem! :lol:

Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:01 am

Blue Baron wrote: MDKG wrote: This must be a record price for a 46 split!? :shock: It's only a record price if somebody pays it.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's throw up a picture of a random car for sale so we can all tear it to shreds for sport.

Oops ... too late ... 8)

There is no "sport" in this one. Its like shooting a chained Moose.

$87k and you don't get matching bumpers or any taillights. Takes "crack smoking" to a new level IMO.

So if the pan is a "regular" split, and the body a '49, what exactly makes this guy think that this car is a '46?? Maybe he just has a title like the guy building the "'48 Rat Rod" ??