For the past few years there's been a vacated car dealership that had a '78 convertible and an army jeep in the old showroom a handful of miles from where I lived. Never knew who owned the building and I couldn't get closer to the car to examine it, but from a distance it seemed a pretty well preserved example.
About 9 months ago it dissappeared and I thought it'd been sold.. until yesterday when I saw it parked out in front of a Jeep dealership a mile or so up the same road. First only caught it out the corner of my eye, coulda swore I saw it being offered at $1900. I wasn't too surprised when I went back to look at it and saw, instead, they were asking $11,900.
Put it well out of my price range, even though I've wanted a bug convertible for quite a long time. I snapped a few photos and thought I'd post them in case there's anyone out there that might be interested:
Wasn't any serious rust visible, was a few spots on the pans showing through and some reddish dings on the body work where it curls around near the ground.
Vehicle is located in Wheaton, Illinois, on Roosevelt a bit east of Naperville Road.