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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 77202 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 5:43 am Post subject: Re: What is the rarest Vw you have encountered ? |
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_________________ Glenn
74 Beetle Specs | 74 Beetle Restoration | 2180cc Engine
"You may not get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get"
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busman78 Samba Member
Joined: August 17, 2004 Posts: 4547 Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 7:08 am Post subject: Re: What is the rarest Vw you have encountered ? |
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That was on Bring A Trailer a few weeks ago. |
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Shonandb Samba Member
Joined: January 12, 2019 Posts: 1317 Location: Vancouver, BC
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 9:00 am Post subject: Re: What is the rarest Vw you have encountered ? |
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Saw my first SuperBugger at the VW show last summer in Tsawwassen, BC. It was red and was really cool to see in person. _________________ *******************************
76 Westy with a 2.5L Subaru SOHC + Vanagon (010) Automatic Transaxle
Build & Trip Thread: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=758760
Previous 1973 Panel Bus:
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VWporscheGT3 Samba Member
Joined: September 01, 2006 Posts: 2087 Location: Gardnerville, NV
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 9:25 am Post subject: Re: What is the rarest Vw you have encountered ? |
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A real Kubal that made its way over from russia but now resides in Nevada. the gentleman who owns it a GENUINELY awesomely nice dude who actually let me drive it... that crash box is a trip _________________ Schnell, SCHNELL!
I like being wrong, as weird as that sounds, it is another opportunity to learn. If you stop learning from your mistakes than what is the point?
Schicken Sie es!
If you have any questions about Forged ICON 4032 VW pistons just shoot me a line. |
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Iowa Mark Samba Member
Joined: May 06, 2004 Posts: 1072
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: What is the rarest Vw you have encountered ? |
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Without realizing it at the time, I've stumbled on a few future rare VWs back when I was young and dumb. In high school, a classmate showed up one day with a brush painted pumpkin orange split window bug that had a permanent blue cloud following it all over town. A few weeks later it was the cheery on the top of the junk yards' pile of cars. I had a moment of thought about buying it and turning it into a cool baja, but by then it was crushed and gone. Back home on leave from the service a couple of years later, a friend took me to see a VW his boss had stashed away. A black convertible bug with those flip out signal thingys in the sides. The friend said he also had another convertible with a VW drive train, but looked almost like that Borgward that ran around town. I went back to the west coast and told myself to look into those cars when I got out of the Navy in a few years. Fast forward into the later 70's and while looking for parts for my crashed oval, I get directed to a farm grove with VWs in it. Just a couple of rusted out mid-sixties bugs and an old bus that had this huge back door. Like the whole south end of the bus lifted open. Huh. |
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67conv Samba Member
Joined: July 10, 2005 Posts: 393 Location: Simi Valley, California
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:52 am Post subject: Re: What is the rarest Vw you have encountered ? |
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Rometsch Beeskow cabriolet, seen at the Super Car Sunday 'cars and coffee' show May, 2017.
Built by Rometcsch Karosserie in Berlin and named in honor of designer, Johannes Beeskow. Constructed on a Beetle chassis and running gear, it was offered as a coupe or cabriolet.
This one needed a little TLC, but it was driveable! Don't see these every day!
_________________ 1967 VW Convertible, owned /driven /pampered for 34 years.
1957 DKW 3=6, owned /driven /risen from the dead for 20 years.
Previously owned: 72 "Baja Champion SE" Spec. Edition Super Beetle bought NEW; 79 Convertible bought NEW; 67 type 1 savanna beige; 67 2.0 911S; 73 2.4 911T; 63 356 T6 B Cabriolet; 64 356 SC sunroof coupe; 72 Type-3 Squareback; 68 + 69 Type-3 Fastbacks; 87 Vanagon GL Wasserboxer |
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