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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:48 pm    Post subject: anyone save vws from the junkyard or crusher Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saved this one the day before it was to be crushed back in 1994.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I saved this one the day before it was to be crushed back in 1994.

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Nice save. Do you still have it?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I do. Unfortunately not much has got done to it since I bought it. I still think it was worth the $50 I paid for it though.

Doesn't look a lot different (maybe worse) 13 years later.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just saved this one yesterday


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motor runs relly good Very Happy

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This thread has some nice salvaging
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=164642
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saved this bus.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some of the places here wont sell cars once they hit the yard, its too bad...real bad. But I gank parts from them Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:46 pm    Post subject: Re: anyone save vws from the junkyard or crusher Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:19 am    Post subject: Re: anyone save vws from the junkyard or crusher Reply with quote

tribalvwbug wrote:
anyone saved a vw from the evil crusher?


I saved my daily driver from certain death. It was in a St. Petersbugh towing storage fixing to be sold for parts and then scrap.

It was wrecked on the passenger side but complete. I bought it, fixed it, now it is my daily driver.

Unfortunately, I did not take any 'before' pictures....
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just about every car posted in my Samba Gallery was saved from a junkyard or the crusher. Many were cut up to save other cars.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This bug I saved it was going to be cut up for panels
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And this one I saved from being sold as scrap.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Laughing


Well he had fun and got some parts out of it, sounds good to me...
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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 Laughing


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.
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