Joined: November 24, 2004 Posts: 115 Location: wellsboro pa
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: anyone save vws from the junkyard or crusher
anyone saved a vw from the evil crusher?
now that scrap prices are soring its hard to imaging someone throwing a vw away. I saved this 1967 vw bug from a junkyard that was crushing every thing.the bug came from florida from someones summer home.
Joined: November 16, 2006 Posts: 3017 Location: minnesota
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:
I bought a '67 bug from a junkyard for $50 but it was missing the tranny, engine, taillights and steering wheel. But i don't think it would have gotten crushed because when we were picking it up another person stopped and wanted to buy it. So if i hadn't bought it im sure someone else would have. _________________ '70 std bug (daily driver)
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Joined: August 15, 2005 Posts: 2003 Location: Brodheadsville, PA
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:53 am Post subject:
The stuff people send to the junkyard!!! That green '67 is amazing! You guys in Cali and warmer climates. The stuff you call "rust" or vehicles you deam too far gone to save we can only dream of here in the Northeast !!!! Why don't we send you are crap to crush and you send us yours to save. _________________ Formerly known in the forums as "OVALTEEN"
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Joined: January 03, 2008 Posts: 1598 Location: Home of the potatoes.
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:
I was going to save a bug from the junkyard because the body looks good and everything but they wont let me buy the whole thing! They said parts only.... So now i am parting it to save it from going to crusher. _________________ 74 Super Beetle SOLD
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Joined: November 10, 2005 Posts: 3404 Location: Out on Pa-troll.
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:
Some of the places here wont sell cars once they hit the yard, its too bad...real bad. But I gank parts from them _________________ Der Schmutzige Süden.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: anyone save vws from the junkyard or crusher
tribalvwbug wrote:
anyone saved a vw from the evil crusher?
now that scrap prices are soring its hard to imaging someone throwing a vw away. I saved this 1967 vw bug from a junkyard that was crushing every thing.the bug came from florida from someones summer home.
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 2243 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject:
In 1979 or 1980 I saved a 1963 Karmann Ghia coupe, Yellow wt black top, from the junk yard. It was involved in a bad front end, rear end accident. Drove it home from the junk yard with rope holding the smashed bumpers on. Made a Baja Ghia out of it. Had lots of fun with it. Ended up rolling it out at Superstition Mountain, fixing it and then rolling it again about a year later on Fiesta Island. Striped it and sold it to the scrape yard. Still have the wheels from it. _________________ Prosit!
I saved this '69 from my local junkyard, the yard is next to the freeway and they had it up on top of a shipping container. I remeber driving by it and saying haha who put that bug up there? I wonder if its for sale? Couple days later it was sitting in my driveway the lady at the junkyard said she got it from an elderly mans family. His kids said that dad needed a better car. It was towed behind a RV since 1969 by the bumper so the apron is messed up a little. The motor is a 1500 and has less than 50,000 miles. All it needed was an oil change new plugs fuel pump and some gas and it fired right up!
Joined: March 22, 2007 Posts: 3482 Location: Ellenwood, GA
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject:
Fish wrote:
In 1979 or 1980 I saved a 1963 Karmann Ghia coupe, Yellow wt black top, from the junk yard. It was involved in a bad front end, rear end accident. Drove it home from the junk yard with rope holding the smashed bumpers on. Made a Baja Ghia out of it. Had lots of fun with it. Ended up rolling it out at Superstition Mountain, fixing it and then rolling it again about a year later on Fiesta Island. Striped it and sold it to the scrape yard. Still have the wheels from it.
lol, so you saved it from the junk yard, only to sell it to another junkyard. nice _________________ 1974 Super Beetle: Custom resto in progress
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In 1979 or 1980 I saved a 1963 Karmann Ghia coupe, Yellow wt black top, from the junk yard. It was involved in a bad front end, rear end accident. Drove it home from the junk yard with rope holding the smashed bumpers on. Made a Baja Ghia out of it. Had lots of fun with it. Ended up rolling it out at Superstition Mountain, fixing it and then rolling it again about a year later on Fiesta Island. Striped it and sold it to the scrape yard. Still have the wheels from it.
lol, so you saved it from the junk yard, only to sell it to another junkyard. nice
Well he had fun and got some parts out of it, sounds good to me... _________________
iowegian wrote:
I know a guy that put a Ghia motor in a bug. It would beat Mustangs.
Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 2243 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:22 am Post subject:
so-calvwdude wrote:
BugMan114 wrote:
Fish wrote:
In 1979 or 1980 I saved a 1963 Karmann Ghia coupe, Yellow wt black top, from the junk yard. It was involved in a bad front end, rear end accident. Drove it home from the junk yard with rope holding the smashed bumpers on. Made a Baja Ghia out of it. Had lots of fun with it. Ended up rolling it out at Superstition Mountain, fixing it and then rolling it again about a year later on Fiesta Island. Striped it and sold it to the scrape yard. Still have the wheels from it.
lol, so you saved it from the junk yard, only to sell it to another junkyard. nice
Well he had fun and got some parts out of it, sounds good to me...
Sold it to the scrape yard and besides all the parts I kept I learned even more about being a mechanic & VWs as this was my second car I ever owned. _________________ Prosit!
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