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Sun Sep 10, 2017 8:47 am

Hi!

My name is Gregg and I am the proud owner of a 1971 Super Beetle for a couple months now. I recently got rid of my 2014 Dodge Dart as my "fun car" (I have a Jetta for a daily) and found this beauty close by. My girlfriend and I have always loved how these look, and while we weren't really seriously looking at getting a Beetle, we stumbled upon this one and fell in love with the color, the way it runs and drives, the great shape it's in and the price was perfect. From what I can tell, and what the shop it's been to can tell, its an all original 20,xxx miles. EVERYTHING in this car sports a VW logo stamped or cast or printed onto it. The car came with the original window sticker and a little notebook of a brief service history, and the car is listed as getting an oil change at 18,xxx miles... In 1996. So I think she's been doing a lot of sitting. And the tires have 1992 DOTs. It's been repainted at some point but it's the original color. Love this car! I've had coworkers tell me to get some different rims or something but I love the factory VW caps. And if they're original why would I?

The guy was asking $4000 on a for sale sign in the window, $3500 on Craigslist, and as we stood and looked at it, he said he would take $3000. So we brought her home!

I know that you all know what these cars look like, but everyone's kid is their favorite, right?

Nice meeting you guys! :D

Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:33 am

That is beautiful! Welcome to the samba! Don't change a thing...

Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:00 am

Nice car! I like the color a lot.

Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:15 am

Nice car and the price was goo also.

Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:33 am

looks clean

Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:20 pm

Great looking car! Don't change a thing -- except for the tires. I wouldn't trust 25 year-old rubber.......

Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:25 pm

René R. wrote: Great looking car! Don't change a thing -- except for the tires. I wouldn't trust 25 year-old rubber.......

X2. Great looking car. Congrats and welcome.

Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:35 pm

It looks really nice. The only thing I can say, though, is that it has been painted. They sprayed right over the rubber between your tail lights and the rear fenders and did the same thing to the rubber above your license plate light (a bit of a pet peeve of mine). It's possible the paint just faded and somebody painted it with a coat of the original color to refresh it. It's also possible, though, that it sustained some damage at one time or another. I'd at least unscrew those pieces and either replace those gaskets or chip the paint off the rubber to make it black again. Up to you, but I kinda think such lazy painting looks tacky. Welcome, though!

Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:50 pm

Right on, man...

flat-screen Supers are rad.

8)

Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:04 am

René R. wrote: Great looking car! Don't change a thing -- except for the tires. I wouldn't trust 25 year-old rubber.......

Trust me, it's on the to-do list... it has a shimmy at highway speeds and I can't tell if it's the fact that these tires are older than I am or because the front end parts are all shot... either way, it'll get done. :)

DadsOld74 wrote: It looks really nice. The only thing I can say, though, is that it has been painted. They sprayed right over the rubber between your tail lights and the rear fenders and did the same thing to the rubber above your license plate light (a bit of a pet peeve of mine). It's possible the paint just faded and somebody painted it with a coat of the original color to refresh it. It's also possible, though, that it sustained some damage at one time or another. I'd at least unscrew those pieces and either replace those gaskets or chip the paint off the rubber to make it black again. Up to you, but I kinda think such lazy painting looks tacky. Welcome, though!

It's definitely been repainted, there's lines in the door jambs of where the newer paint stops, and like you pointed out, all of the rubber is painted over. One of the tires has some overspray on it too. Overall though the color is pretty darn close, and while I never thought I'd like it a lot, I love it. The main thing to me is there are no runs or anything like that. Some of the rubber is pulling out or cracking anyway, I'm not sure if they are replaceable but might be worth looking into.

Thanks for the Beetle love, guys!

Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:48 am

Yeah, all that rubber is replaceable.

Mon Sep 11, 2017 9:48 am

nice car, great deal
I'd have bought it too..

Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:07 pm

Looks good a solid SB!

I would look for new rubber etc cracks/dried out from heat age

Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:56 pm

Looks pretty clean and original. Autostick too i see! Where in MN are you?

Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:34 am

rustfree1967bug wrote: Looks pretty clean and original. Autostick too i see! Where in MN are you?

Yep, the AutoStick was a little weird to me when we first drove it... Is it a manual? Is it an auto? It's somewhere in the middle! :lol:

We're down in the Mankato area. How about you?

Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:22 pm

No way! I am actually less than 10 miles south of Mankato. Was this the car that was listed in Mankato for awhile? Would be cool to meet up. There is a small vw club in the southern mn area also.

Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:10 pm

Looks very nice. Good luck with it. :D

Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:21 pm

rustfree1967bug wrote: No way! I am actually less than 10 miles south of Mankato. Was this the car that was listed in Mankato for awhile? Would be cool to meet up. There is a small vw club in the southern mn area also.

Really? That's awesome! We looked at it on the night it was posted to Craigslist and brought it home a couple days later. It's funny, right after I bought this one, two more classic Bugs popped up for sale in Courtland...

We got this from a gentleman in Madison Lake. I'll have to look into the club!

Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:11 pm

That super convertible at the dealer in courtland has been sitting there all summer, i had heard about the other one sitting in someones yard for sale but never saw it. If you ever see any aircooleds around mankato it's a pretty good chance it's me! haha. Hopefully run into you soon.

Wed Sep 13, 2017 6:17 am

rustfree1967bug wrote: That super convertible at the dealer in courtland has been sitting there all summer, i had heard about the other one sitting in someones yard for sale but never saw it. If you ever see any aircooleds around mankato it's a pretty good chance it's me! haha. Hopefully run into you soon.

I'm not much of a fan of the brown, and on top of that, there's a bra on it, in addition to the price being a bit steep in my opinion...

I have a picture of the white one:

I stopped one day and looked at it, it's in decent shape but missing some odds and ends like some trim and the radio, and it has a pretty half-ass paint job, the car used to be red and has been repainted cream... it's still red in all the vents under the back window. Runs really well though, sounds like he stuck some money into it recently. It disappeared for a while, thought he sold it, but it popped up again this week all cleaned up.

I looked at this orange one around Janesville, before we found our Marina Blue. I had trouble getting it to go more than 45mph down the highway, and it was a little out of the budget. Perfectly matched the color of the Dart I used to have though...

I also see another Marina Blue around North Mankato quite often... I'll have to see if I can catch the owner one of these days.