1951 Sema award winning beetle (Kevin Zager) for sale

[wheel607]

Again, it has been about a month and a half, and I understand it is still for sale. Has anybody seen this VW in person? I can see by the pictures its bad places, carpet showing through and rough cuts. What is it worth? Forget SEMA and Kevins handling of it. Just tell me what it is worth.

[finster]

it's worth whatever you're willing to pay....
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[peter schepens]

My father told me: To buy it, you are alone... to sell you have to be with 2.
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Zelensis, glassfibre body made in Belgium , disigned and built on a VW platform About 25 body's built.
Hebmuller info wanted for http://www.hebmueller-registry.com/home.html

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[adventurebob]

I like it… I don’t like it enough to pay $100k for it.

[esde]

For the sake of discussion, what's a ballpark figure for a perfectly restored three fold rag 51? My observations are that even a nicely done custom car will rarely bring more $$ than the same car restored to original.
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modok wrote:
Bent cranks are silent but gather no moss. I mean, ah, something like that.

[Splitdog]

For a restoration done correctly, and using genuine parts, I would say ~ 70k.
That same car modified correctly from a California perspective, ~ 85k.
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[esde]

I would agree with that.
Unfortunately it would probably cost well over 40-50 to put it anywhere close to stock, or even a DKP level cali build. So it would have to go for peanuts to be a viable restoration candidate. So it either gets sold to someone that doesn't know what it really is, or what they want (which does happen quite often, especially at auction), or it get parted out (which is often the only way to get costs back out of a high dollar custom build.)
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modok wrote:
Bent cranks are silent but gather no moss. I mean, ah, something like that.

[Jimone]