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Miklo
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Sounds like you girls are bulimic... Or it's that time of the month.
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moab762
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| Sounds like you girls are bulimic... Or it's that time of the month. |
Probably a little of both. My lady parts do hurt a little. 
Looking for a VW is getting a bit like looking for a diamond in an outhouse. Except there's a lot of turds out there that have been painted three times, sanded twice and polished once. LOL! |
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60ragtop
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http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1814038 
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I've restored a large number too, but I don't toot my horn quite as loud.
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VOLKSWAGNUT
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Ill one up ya.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1492037
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EverettB 
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I always wonder when I see ads like this - why the hell would I buy a "used" engine that has zero miles from an unknown seller?
What happens if I have trouble or it leaks?
I want it at least to be run for a while on a stand, not a few minutes.
Sort of like the people selling "restored cars" that have like 40 miles on them.
1. Why the hell would I buy a car that you've only put 40 miles on after redoing everything? I guarantee something is going to go wrong.
2. How the hell do you have a fresh car and only have 40 miles on it? You should be excited about driving it and putting lots of miles on it.
This screams "something is wrong" to me.
/rant over
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glutamodo
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Everett - I had the exact same thoughts as you did there!
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vwsonmybrain
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I mean, I get that some people enjoy restoring cars more than owning/driving them, but it's a car. Cars were meant to be driven. How could you go through all that work and not put at least a 1000 miles on it?
But I guess I also come from the other end. I always liked Volkswagens for as long as I can remember and I own them because I love to drive them. The restoration thing came after the love of driving them. But even when I was restoring my '60, it was always with the intent of driving it's little wheels off when I was done.
Nice rant, Everett. |
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60ragtop
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Yeah but that ones starts with the way more expensive "P" vowel not the cheaper "V" 
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I've restored a large number too, but I don't toot my horn quite as loud.
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fla2smoker
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EverettB
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moab762
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It needs more purple. |
It needs more cowbell. |
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jays58s
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I always wonder when I see ads like this - why the hell would I buy a "used" engine that has zero miles from an unknown seller?
What happens if I have trouble or it leaks?
I want it at least to be run for a while on a stand, not a few minutes.
Sort of like the people selling "restored cars" that have like 40 miles on them.
1. Why the hell would I buy a car that you've only put 40 miles on after redoing everything? I guarantee something is going to go wrong.
2. How the hell do you have a fresh car and only have 40 miles on it? You should be excited about driving it and putting lots of miles on it.
This screams "something is wrong" to me.
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I like the cars that claim to have so many original miles, but you finish reading the ad only to find out that everything has been rebuilt, so technically, only the speedometer now has that many miles on it lol. |
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jays58s
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moab762
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I saw that first one and thought "They grow some good weed in Sonoma. Don't they?".
To bad cause I'd take that car on as a project if it was priced realistically. It's got a nice color to start with, 12v, 1500 engine, sunroof etc. etc. But that paint is gone. Probably the most expensive "fix" on a VW. I'd think most would rather replace the motor and trans than a paint job. I feel pretty lucky about the car I bought last year. And more so the more current ads I read.
If I see anymore cars that are purple, orange, bright any color or fluorescent (yes I said fluorescent. There's a two tone fluorescent green and white car on craigslist right now. I forget where.) I'm gonna vomit. Why someone spends thousands on a non-original bright (insert paint color here - i.e. orange, blue, green, yellow etc. etc) paint job is beyond me.
Why do VW's always attract the worst colors in paint?
(I think my latest search for a new Beetle is rotting my brain...) |
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jays58s
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I saw that first one and thought "They grow some good weed in Sonoma. Don't they?".
To bad cause I'd take that car on as a project if it was priced realistically. It's got a nice color to start with, 12v, 1500 engine, sunroof etc. etc. But that paint is gone. Probably the most expensive "fix" on a VW. I'd think most would rather replace the motor and trans than a paint job. I feel pretty lucky about the car I bought last year. And more so the more current ads I read.
If I see anymore cars that are purple, orange, bright any color or fluorescent (yes I said fluorescent. There's a two tone fluorescent green and white car on craigslist right now. I forget where.) I'm gonna vomit. Why someone spends thousands on a non-original bright (insert paint color here - i.e. orange, blue, green, yellow etc. etc) paint job is beyond me.
Why do VW's always attract the worst colors in paint?
(I think my latest search for a new Beetle is rotting my brain...) |
Both cars would be good projects, IF they were priced right, but he's way off on both. I'm right there with you on the funky paint jobs, I never understood that either. One of my biggest pet peeves are people using the word "original", when most of what you see is FAR from being original. |
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moab762
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What gets me is he's asking 27k based on four pictures. It always amazes me the lack of pics in some ads. The guys I trust are the ones that put it all out there - the good, the bad and the ugly. I respect guys that put that out there. Cause your gonna find the issues anyway. Be upfront about it. Your going to find more buyers by not trying to hide things. And every car has issues somewhere.
Like cover the big issues with pics at least - pan, bottom of pillars, trunk, engine bay, interior, etc. etc. I actually asked one guy for more pics last night. He only had three or four. And his answer was simply "no I don't". So then I asked him if he could "explain" the condition of various things on the vehicle. And come to find out the pans were patched together with sheet metal. Ah. That's why there isn't more pics. Cause it's got issues.
I don't know if a museum quality car is worth 27k. Or if that one is museum quality. Doesn't sound like it with "repaint" issues. |
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jays58s
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What gets me is he's asking 27k based on four pictures. It always amazes me the lack of pics in some ads. The guys I trust are the ones that put it all out there - the good, the bad and the ugly. I respect guys that put that out there. Cause your gonna find the issues anyway. Be upfront about it. Your going to find more buyers by not trying to hide things. And every car has issues somewhere.
Like cover the big issues with pics at least - pan, bottom of pillars, trunk, engine bay, interior, etc. etc. I actually asked one guy for more pics last night. He only had three or four. And his answer was simply "no I don't". So then I asked him if he could "explain" the condition of various things on the vehicle. And come to find out the pans were patched together with sheet metal. Ah. That's why there isn't more pics. Cause it's got issues.
I don't know if a museum quality car is worth 27k. Or if that one is museum quality. Doesn't sound like it with "repaint" issues. |
I question why a car with 30,000 original miles needed to be painted or to have the interior redone. |
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moab762
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What gets me is he's asking 27k based on four pictures. It always amazes me the lack of pics in some ads. The guys I trust are the ones that put it all out there - the good, the bad and the ugly. I respect guys that put that out there. Cause your gonna find the issues anyway. Be upfront about it. Your going to find more buyers by not trying to hide things. And every car has issues somewhere.
Like cover the big issues with pics at least - pan, bottom of pillars, trunk, engine bay, interior, etc. etc. I actually asked one guy for more pics last night. He only had three or four. And his answer was simply "no I don't". So then I asked him if he could "explain" the condition of various things on the vehicle. And come to find out the pans were patched together with sheet metal. Ah. That's why there isn't more pics. Cause it's got issues.
I don't know if a museum quality car is worth 27k. Or if that one is museum quality. Doesn't sound like it with "repaint" issues. |
I question why a car with 30,000 original miles needed to be painted or to have the interior redone. |
My thoughts exactly.
Sometimes I think you've got one of two different scenarios going on here with over priced cars. One they put to much money into the car. And they think they can get every penny and some profit out of it. (Or they convinced their wife of that.) Regardless of current market conditions.
And two, guys are just fishing to sell something for a high dollar price. Otherwise it just sits in the garage for a fresh sucker to come along and pay what they are asking. Which I get. Some guys are just in it to make money off cars. And it's a capitalist society we live under.
I sold my older restoration, sunroof, black on red '67 type one for 11.5k. Was it worth that much? I don't really know. That's about how much I had into it maybe a little less. But I thought it was worth that much at the time. I do know the buyer I found was a casual, uneducated VW buyer. Who just wanted something to remind him of his youth driving a bug. He never had it checked out by a mechanic. Something I would never do - buy a car without having it gone thru by a trusted mechanic. He drove it once on surface streets and paid cash. That's a big difference from an educated Samba member that is going to go thru the car and really evaluate what needs to be changed to their liking. Probably to an educated VW person it might have been worth less. But there are people out there that just want to buy a nice looking car and they don't really care that much about the price. Wish I was one of those. lol. But I'm not.
You can tell by some guys ads though that they are pissed their little gem is not worth the money they put into it. Or they can't understand why no one else likes lime green on a beetle. Or why the beautiful "patina" they put on the car is not worth gold. lol.
Very rarely do you get back what you put into a car. And some of these guys are down right aggro about their prices. But then you look at their lime green, slammed and patina'd dream car. And your like WTH? What was that guy thinking? LOL! But you never know. If one guy liked lime green there's gotta be another one with a wallet out there somewhere. |
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