The day before yesterday I made the best score of my life. In the local wantads there is this ad online tues. night(the paper copy comes out wed. afternoon) for " 2- 1970 beetles, many extra parts $250" I couldn't wait to call Wed. am to see whats the story. So I started working on my wife to let me spend the 250 on another VW and she says "no way" so I keep working on her to at least go look and she finally says "OK we'll look but we aren't buying anything because we really don't have the money" So anyway........ I call wed. and it sounds like it might be a good deal so we check it out. It turns out the owner is an older fella who's owned the bugs since 74 and has a huge garage full of parts(like 6 pickup truckloads full) My wife even said, Holy crap! I figured it must be a misprint and the real cost is $2500 but no the price is really 250 he just wants to clean out his sheds to starta shitaake mushroom business or something. No dickering I could'nt give him my money fast enough but I only had 50 so ask my wife can we get it.....pleeeeaasseeee? So come to find out she had already taken out 200 from the bank! sweet there is little to no rust on either car and he has removed the bodies from the frames and sandblasted 1 body and primed replaced or repaired the pans and undercoated both frames the other body has some rot on the rockker panels buy he has brand new replacement panels. There is a ton of new and used parts to complete both cars, but it's like a giant vw puzzle.Many things he has removed from both cars and purchased 2 new parts, 1 for each. There is also 6 engines 2 of which are supposed to be freshly rebuilt. So I'm excited. I have a 71 weekender that I've been keeping alive for about 8 years, but I almost feel like I might be in over my head. I'm hoping I can rely on you guys for help in the near future so my first question is......
After I get all this stuff home, anybody got any advice on where to start??