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Naked Samba Member
Joined: August 03, 2004 Posts: 568 Location: Lincoln, Ca
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: Your 1st or most Heart Stopping Score? |
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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. _________________
68' Vert
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Kubel Nick Samba Member
Joined: August 12, 2003 Posts: 1369 Location: Fort Worth, TX
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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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
Also I got alot of eBay scores back in the days. Like a chipped split dash pod I won for $20, when I got it it had a KDF cog logo on back |
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jimmy1 Samba Member
Joined: April 17, 2001 Posts: 1569 Location: http://www.thedeafvolks.com
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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2 petri banjo steering wheel , one with the horn ring , for free , skim has one that I found. the other went in wolfsburg warehouse 56 vert.
4 real brms for 200$
ambo fans for 10$ etc etc etc
theres more................................ _________________ North Hollywood, CA
1956 Kabrolett
"I'd rather be driving my VW thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my VW."
check out my classified ads, lots of rare parts/accessories for sale. |
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Dazed42 Samba Member
Joined: May 01, 2004 Posts: 1148 Location: Copperas Cove, Tx
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Empi Tach for some coronas and a lime. _________________ Proud owner of a super fatty.
Do you love the KAC?
www.dallasaircoolers.com |
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restojohnny Samba Member
Joined: February 13, 2004 Posts: 2764 Location: SPLITSVILLE , SON !!!!
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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I've never scored anything worth much but I'll keep looking _________________ ** HELL YEAH I'LL SELL IT TO YOU**
O.G. POMONA VULTURE
$$ SWAPMEET MAFIA $$
53 LHD, LH cargo door standard kombi
54 Pre-A Porsche
55 oval ribbed door non-semiphore
56 semiphore ragtop
63 notchback (work in progress)
67 OG black paint beetle sedan empi accessorized
67 original Empi GTV beetle convertible !!
67 euro squareback
67 deluxe walkthru (work in progress)
67 convertible ghia (work in progress)
"STAY OUTTA MY BACKYARD !!! " |
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coad Samba Scapegoat
Joined: September 12, 2002 Posts: 7552
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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lonotch Samba Padrino
Joined: August 28, 2004 Posts: 3304 Location: So. Cal. Oceanside GFK!
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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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 _________________ It's not about the window, it's about the people.
German Folks |
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RareAir Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 14577 Location: 18 miles North of the border
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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restojohnny wrote: |
I've never scored anything worth much but I'll keep looking |
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. _________________ 1947 Typ 11a
1954 Typ 117
1956 Typ 151
1959 Typ 117
1959 Typ 265
1961 356B
1966 Typ 151
1966 Typ 241 |
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crewlvw Samba Member
Joined: December 23, 2004 Posts: 384 Location: hemet. so. cal
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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yhe right glenn you have all the cool stuff. billy |
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doubledoor64 Samba Member
Joined: September 23, 2003 Posts: 1073 Location: Ideeho
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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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..... |
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Lids Samba Member
Joined: June 15, 2004 Posts: 263 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:33 am Post subject: |
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I got two empi catalogs in workshop binders from a bloke in germany for £20 thats about $35 |
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justbuggin Resident Brit
Joined: April 16, 2003 Posts: 752 Location: England
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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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:
_________________ Rob
www.justbuggin.co.uk
1958 Rag Cal Import
T25 Panel Van |
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Hong Kong Syndicate Samba Member
Joined: April 10, 2004 Posts: 26 Location: Portugal
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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A Speedwell sterring whell for .....a Honda sterring whell found for free in a local junk yard! 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!" |
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Jason C Samba Member
Joined: June 14, 2005 Posts: 1028 Location: Portland Oregon
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Throw me a bone here. All I wanted were
sharks with friggen laser beams attached to their heads.
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iowegian Samba Curmudgeon
Joined: February 16, 2005 Posts: 9830 Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:14 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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coad Samba Scapegoat
Joined: September 12, 2002 Posts: 7552
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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notchboy Samba Member
Joined: April 27, 2002 Posts: 22461 Location: Escondido CA
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: |
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NOS early T3 abarth muffler scored here on the samba. This could very well be the only one left I know there is a couple later ones out there but not any earlies that I know of.
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OK, this thread is over. You win. |
Jason "notchboy" Weigel
1964 1500 S
1964 T34 S Convertible
1977 Westfalia Camper pop-top |
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Lind Samba Member
Joined: November 06, 2000 Posts: 9915 Location: idaho
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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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.) _________________ .
Wanted:
Idaho VW license plate frames or other dealership items.
VWoA literature and early dealership or distributor literature/pictures/information
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51deluxe Samba Member
Joined: August 09, 2004 Posts: 208 Location: fletcher nc
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:55 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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4hammers Samba Member
Joined: March 22, 2006 Posts: 154 Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:58 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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