So I posted in here back in early May about how it was my first time back in a couple years. Well, then things got hectic and I stopped reading again. Well, now I'm back for sure because I finally got my Bug back. Yep, I was able to buy back my very first car. A couple weeks ago I went down to Newport News, Virginia and bought a '65 Beetle for $1000 that needed some work. Once I got it home I realized that perhaps I had bit off more then I could chew with it. The very next day I was at the Old Dominion AirCoolers show and was talking to the guy that bought my '73 Super two years ago. He mentioned that he wanted to sell it as his mother (for whom he had bought it so he could fix up and she could drive) had lost interest in it. So I told him that as soon as I could sell the '65 I'd come down and buy back the '73. I posted some ads online and got a hit the same day from the one I placed over at VW Vortex. Two days later the buyer came down from West Virginia and towed it home and a couple days after that I went down, wrote a check for $1000 and got my original car back. As much as I wanted an older, more vintage car, the sentimental value of the '73 was much more important to me. It needs a little work here and there and I'm getting together with some friends tomorrow to work on it. I'll probably be ordering some parts for it soon. (Aircooled.net all the way.) Pictures of it can be found here:
-Jeff
73 Super Beetle 04 GTI 1.8T In the past: 65 Beetle (Owned for three days) 86 Jetta Diesel 88 GTI 16v