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Murt
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 Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:57 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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I'd like to know this ? After building millions of Beetles, why is it so Dam**ned hard to find a decent genuine one to restore ? where are they all hiding ?
I've been searching in the UK, and in Europe for some. The ones over here that do sometimes come up for sale on eBlag etc, are sometimes so rusty even a decent Chroming shop won't touch them !! Being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, I think someone in Europe has a Mountain of them stashed, and hiding them from the Brits because we want to leave the EU !!
I'd really like a rear 'US Spec Towel Rail' type for mine
If I go down the route of buying after market, I get a choice of Summer Chrome Brazilian ( read brightly coloured Tin ) for $325, or a 'Top' quality 'European' one for $630, which I'm not so sure about either !!
Anyway, that's my Rant
Dave
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heimlich 
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:02 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Most of Europe was under the Iron Curtain during the heyday of the Beetle. I know many of those countries didn't have many cars let alone many people who could afford to buy a car.
I've seen some pictures of stashes in Europe. I think the last big one was in Hungary.
Is it too terribly expensive to import one?
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jays58s
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:27 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| Murt wrote: |
I'd like to know this ? After building millions of Beetles, why is it so Dam**ned hard to find a decent genuine one to restore ? where are they all hiding ?
I've been searching in the UK, and in Europe for some. The ones over here that do sometimes come up for sale on eBlag etc, are sometimes so rusty even a decent Chroming shop won't touch them !! Being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, I think someone in Europe has a Mountain of them stashed, and hiding them from the Brits because we want to leave the EU !!
I'd really like a rear 'US Spec Towel Rail' type for mine
If I go down the route of buying after market, I get a choice of Summer Chrome Brazilian ( read brightly coloured Tin ) for $325, or a 'Top' quality 'European' one for $630, which I'm not so sure about either !!
Anyway, that's my Rant
Dave |
You’ll probably have to import one if you can’t find anything there. I come across nice original cars quite a bit. |
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EverettB
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jays58s
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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It's the ad that cost the most. $100-$1000 per word. |
I decided to look at the ad word count.
An online word counter says the ad text is 2024 words.
$75,000 / 2024 = $37.06/word
I guarantee there are worse Price/word count ads out there. 
Found this one pretty quickly, more money, less words
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2098860 |
If he drops the price $5000 per week, for the next 8 weeks, it just might sell. |
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kinkerstinker
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67ctbug
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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They don't even have grain in them like they were shot with film, so they were altered in an editing program.... interesting.
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heimlich
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Or maybe they are old photos and scanned in and then photoshoped.
Who knows what some of these folks think when they post items.
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hitest
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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You don't have to rub a lamp to load your pics on your pc and set them to B&W. But really, his excuses don't stop there. I love this stuff:
Still needs to be installed
window cranks
Interior door handles
Seat belts
Fender beading
I'm a slow typist so I'm certain I could install some of that before being able to spell out an ad excusing it.
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ronfay
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| kawfee wrote: |
It's the ad that cost the most. $100-$1000 per word. |
I decided to look at the ad word count.
An online word counter says the ad text is 2024 words.
$75,000 / 2024 = $37.06/word
I guarantee there are worse Price/word count ads out there.
Found this one pretty quickly, more money, less words
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2098860 |
Not to ruin the wonderful long story about the 65 Standard, but 1651 Lacon Street in Regina doesn't have a garage, attached or otherwise. |
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Bryan67
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| 67ctbug wrote: |
| They don't even have grain in them like they were shot with film, so they were altered in an editing program.... interesting. |
Who still uses film?
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EverettB
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| ronfay wrote: |
| EverettB wrote: |
| kawfee wrote: |
It's the ad that cost the most. $100-$1000 per word. |
I decided to look at the ad word count.
An online word counter says the ad text is 2024 words.
$75,000 / 2024 = $37.06/word
I guarantee there are worse Price/word count ads out there.
Found this one pretty quickly, more money, less words
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2098860 |
Not to ruin the wonderful long story about the 65 Standard, but 1651 Lacon Street in Regina doesn't have a garage, attached or otherwise. |
Interesting...
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hitest
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| ronfay wrote: |
Not to ruin the wonderful long story about the 65 Standard, but 1651 Lacon Street in Regina doesn't have a garage, attached or otherwise. |
Interesting... |
Ronfay- Canadian Correspondent Samba Sleuth. Well done sir.
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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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67ctbug
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| Bryan67 wrote: |
| 67ctbug wrote: |
| They don't even have grain in them like they were shot with film, so they were altered in an editing program.... interesting. |
Who still uses film? |
Me... a Ricoh CR-5 35mm and a Sankyo Super 8. Film is a actually making a very big comeback. Major Movies are getting shot on it and Kodak is coming out with a new Super 8 camera.
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| ...or the PO envied the terrorists' bus in "Back to the Future". |
| mukluk wrote: |
| He's fine, just waiting for the dragon in winklepickers to move out of his lane. |
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Sharp64
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| 67ctbug wrote: |
| Bryan67 wrote: |
| 67ctbug wrote: |
| They don't even have grain in them like they were shot with film, so they were altered in an editing program.... interesting. |
Who still uses film? |
Me... a Ricoh CR-5 35mm and a Sankyo Super 8. Film is a actually making a very big comeback. Major Movies are getting shot on it and Kodak is coming out with a new Super 8 camera. |
One of my 13year olds asked for a Kodak instant camera for Xmas.
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67ctbug
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| Sharp64 wrote: |
| 67ctbug wrote: |
| Bryan67 wrote: |
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| They don't even have grain in them like they were shot with film, so they were altered in an editing program.... interesting. |
Who still uses film? |
Me... a Ricoh CR-5 35mm and a Sankyo Super 8. Film is a actually making a very big comeback. Major Movies are getting shot on it and Kodak is coming out with a new Super 8 camera. |
One of my 13year olds asked for a Kodak instant camera for Xmas. |
Nice!
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'74 Westfalia
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Go Cubs!
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| ...or the PO envied the terrorists' bus in "Back to the Future". |
| mukluk wrote: |
| He's fine, just waiting for the dragon in winklepickers to move out of his lane. |
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kinkerstinker
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:07 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| 67ctbug wrote: |
| Bryan67 wrote: |
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| They don't even have grain in them like they were shot with film, so they were altered in an editing program.... interesting. |
Who still uses film? |
Me... a Ricoh CR-5 35mm and a Sankyo Super 8. Film is a actually making a very big comeback. Major Movies are getting shot on it and Kodak is coming out with a new Super 8 camera. |
I do as well. I shoot and old nikkormat 35mm, develop and enlarge myself. I would never try to sell a car with those pics though lol. |
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Volktales
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| EverettB wrote: |
| ronfay wrote: |
| EverettB wrote: |
| kawfee wrote: |
It's the ad that cost the most. $100-$1000 per word. |
I decided to look at the ad word count.
An online word counter says the ad text is 2024 words.
$75,000 / 2024 = $37.06/word
I guarantee there are worse Price/word count ads out there.
Found this one pretty quickly, more money, less words
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2098860 |
Not to ruin the wonderful long story about the 65 Standard, but 1651 Lacon Street in Regina doesn't have a garage, attached or otherwise. |
Interesting... |
Google images show no garage at the address currently, which are 2017 images, but you can see from the street view from May 2013 that there was once a garage in the back yard. The current photos show raw dirt in the backyard, so the garage was likely torn down recently. Still like the car, but still waaay to expensive.
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