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Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:41 pm

had a very mint empi coach wheel back in the day, but sold at englishtown for $75.00 :cry: ...kicked my self afterward..that was back about 10 or 13 yrs ago..just picked up aset of NOS delswift mirrors...Joe

Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:40 pm

joe shmoe wrote: had a very mint empi coach wheel back in the day, but sold at englishtown for $75.00 :cry: ...kicked my self afterward..that was back about 10 or 13 yrs ago..just picked up aset of NOS delswift mirrors...Joe
I can't believe you sold a Coach wheel for $75 10-13 years ago. That seems like a lot to me. It's only in the past couple years that people have been paying stupid prices for those.

There was a guy with a gym bag of 10 of them at Pomona 2 years ago for $200. I wish I had bought it now.

Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:42 pm

I sold my perfect VDM wheel with empi horn button for 580.00 dollars on ebay about a year ago!

Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:02 pm

Sure did EB,sold to one of the judges.he came up to me and asked me how much I wanted,didn't know how much it was worth,I had found it at my friends Junkyard in a old flat window super..I told him a $100 he said $75..

Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:06 pm

My Rader wheels, like Thornton's, are rare, I guess. My speaker grille/clock for the Oval, maybe, is rare (keeps perfect time still, too). But the thing I have that is the rarest would have to be all the one-off stuff I got from Richard Guarino, who campaigned the EMPI "Inch Pincher 3" Split Window Gasser up and down the Eastern seaboard. I got the original Speedwell Restall reclining seats (No, Dave M, I don't want to sell them) and the original EMPI jacket, Nomex firesuit, helmet, and driving gloves from the Inch Pincher 3, and a Derrington steering wheel that was adapted with the Oval/Bus EMPI horn button, to Richard's daily driver, a Karmann Ghia. I got unused mailing labels, stationary with the EMPI logo and blue and orange stripes down the side of the paper, stickers from the East Coast division of EMPI (different and even more rare than the regular EMPI ones) truly one-off EMPI stuff. YUSTRN has seen all the stuff I got from Richard. I won't tell the story of how I came to be in possession of all this stuff, because it would make someone look very, very, stupid.

Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:13 pm

Dave wrote: But the thing I have that is the rarest would have to be all the one-off stuff I got from Richard Guarino, who campaigned the EMPI "Inch Pincher 3" Split Window Gasser up and down the Eastern seaboard.

Dave... i remember a certain chrome Bosch 010.

One of my rare items is a NOS Rosco right hand mirror made during the mid 60's. I only know of one other, but want makes it more interesting is that Rosco was based in the town i live in and i found the mirror on a back shelf of the foreign auto parts store in town. Maybe 1 mile from where it was manufactured.

Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:28 am

my 2 og petri steering wheels, perohaus oval dash clock and huls recliners

Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:05 pm

damn rich split popouts were those the ones on buddhas 55 those are sweet your 50 rag with those and your mirror clock forget bout it.

Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:09 pm

Texasbrown, look under GFK in the gallery and you will see all the other goodies, The popout's were on this car for 23 years when i got it. Randy from palm desert owed it for 25 years

Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:50 am

how about this? i´m not telling yet, what is this.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:21 pm

Looks like an ultra rare NOS Hella ear trumpet.

Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:20 am

That's a tough one, but I think the rarest accessory I own is an NOS, in the VW factory box, oil filter kit for an Oval window...It's the same style as the fram kits that mount on the fan shroud like you would see on an Okrassa motor, but it's VW blue with a VW emblem on it and mounts on the firewall. Even have 2 replacement screens for it...also in VW boxes.
In 18 + years of collecting, I have yet to see another one of those.
:D

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/151999.jpg
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Chris

Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:06 am

This is pretty tame, but I wish I still had the working Sapphire VI radio out of my old Ghia.

Mike

Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:15 am

vw79 wrote: how about this? i´m not telling yet, what is this.

gotta be some ultra rare fatchick fuel injector funnel.

Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:12 am

vw79 wrote: how about this? i´m not telling yet, what is this.

I think its a piss funnel

You know, take a hole saw to the pan, weld that cup in place, aim at the target while driving down the road to take a leak, no more rest areas!

Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:52 am

okay, it is a funnel for post ´75 fuelinjection beetles with catalytic converters. then it was possible use outside california leaded fuel when unleaded wasn´t available. also the catalytic converter had to be removed or it would be damaged when used leaded fuel

filler neck diameter was smaller in california models.

rare or not, but i haven´t seen others never.

ten points for superskim!

Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:10 am

but it's VW blue with a VW emblem on it and mounts on the firewall. Even have 2 replacement screens for it...also in VW boxes.
In 18 + years of collecting, I have yet to see another one of those.
:D

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/151999.jpg
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/152000.jpg
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/152001.jpg

Chris[/quote

Wow, that's the correct one. All those "orange" Frams that you see are not really correct. They were made for tractors. The "blue" ones are the real deal. :D

Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:10 pm

Back when I was around 13 my dad built us a volleyball court in the backyard and to keep the net up he used two American Racing Rim 5 spokes and filled with concrete that where 5 lug VW. The other two he had he used for hose reels.

Just Kidding.

Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:15 pm

I have alot of rare items, a pair of heart tailights, old new toys from the 60's like a Herbie friction car, etc. Misc parts, radio grills, decklids, just some good rare accessories.

Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:43 am

I dont have much but have only been collecting for 2 months

- Cool old German foglamps - metal bases and all (Hella)
- NOS Rear fender guards
- 2 x KPH Speedo's
- Blaupunkt Radio

Don't know if its rare or not but i have a wolfsburg front bonnet crest with the word special under the blue water- its kinda cool

Edit: oh and a cool old NZ Made Starline roofrack with clamps