Is there a best year to restore?

[3foldfolly]

[buguy]

Ineteresting numbers. I found one semi local to me on ebay. But you know how that goes. But it looks pretty good and appears to be a good driver already with new paint that had been stripped to bare metal. Problem is it is red with white fenders. Not to offend anyone that may own that, but it doesnt work for me. Looks like a nice new red interior. Give pretty much zero description though. I would assume if it was taken to bare metal for paint the pans and channels would be good as well. But you never know. Its a 57, so I need to do some thourough research to be sure the decklid and hood are correct etc before moving forward.

How much does having the original engine or not affect the pricing? I deal mostly with muscle cars and that makes a huge difference. I would think its less important on a bug?

[buguy]

Here is the link to the auction if anyone would care to have a look and see if there is anything obvious for the 3 pictures that are there.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Volkswagen-Beetle-Classic-...t_22wt_900

[69vwcarl]

It seems the Oval world is following in the footsteps of split bus. Kinda scary. Unless you're rich..... I would also like to know how an all numbers matching oval would stack up for resale against a none matching car... on the classified ads it appears that not many ovals have matching major components...
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