Sometimes you can just tell a VW would be a good one by the ad. Even when the picture isnt so hot.
Diesel.
Sometimes you can just tell a VW would be a good one by the ad. Even when the picture isnt so hot.
Diesel.
Having been down this road a few times myself, I would reserve making the call on a good versus bad example until you see it in person. I've seen quite a few that looked nice from the pictures, "runs like a top" according to the owner, but turns out to be a pile of junk with critical parts missing from the engine, bad brakes, rust on the pans, etc etc. I just love to tell the story of the one bug I went to look at it. One side was perfect, shiny paint, etc. That was the side the picture was taken from. The other side had some nice body damage. Moving to the engine, it had the cooling fan shroud, but nothing else. No forward/rear tin, no cylinder tin, no pulley tin, no sled tin underneath..when I asked the guy abut it he said "I took it all off so it would run cooler"(!) I think he wanted $2800 for it.
Uh huh......Buyer beware. :)
Chris
Good ACVWs are expensive. Forget the myth that you can find a reliable piece of transportation cheap - unless you find a low-mileage seventies Chevy. ACVWs are not inherently reliable.
Get over it.
They ask MORE for old aircooled VW's than they do for late 90's to early
2000's basic transportation in good driving condition.In Aust a "heap can be had for ~$1000 if you can be bothered spending another $3000-4000 getting it registerable and reliable. Noticably there is a gap in price then to around $5000 when you start to get something basic that either hasnt been butchered by somebody with a hacksaw or is in a state that wont boost the retirement fund of a mechanic. Its cars that old , that were not "inherently reliable" I suspect. When I think of the grief my Dad had with his GMH thing from new with rust , main bearings being ground out of alignment. When you compare the piston speed of a typical long stroke English car against a VW at the same speed you can see why their engines wore out quickly in Aust ( FWD Morris 1500 needing rebores at 18000 miles). John
Well, that along with Jan's post is encouraging. I suspect that putting For Sale signs on my bugs, then parking them by the local University for a few days before, and including graduation day just might sell them to Mom and Dad. I got one potential buyer for the '72 who said, "I just love them Bugs because my daughter wants one and if it don't do over
65mph, I'll buy it."
Would thst be the Mister Bean car??? That is one of my favorites.
It was a developed Morris 1100 which was the next size up from the Morris
850 ( Mini) which was Mr Beans car. After they had developed the engine up to maximun bore at 1275 cc ( you could go 1310cc if you didnt mind putting a new engine in with the oil) they made the alloy engined horror , the Morris 1500. BMC collpased shortly after Like you say, huge amounts of character. John
Whoa! :)
We have only 12" here (=southern Finland) but it's about three times the normal (at this time of year) and it came down just in three weeks. There's huge snow banks everywhere as they still haven't have time to haul it away.
I've shoveled my daily driver out about four times from a solid snow bank now, although not like those in your picture.
Update this morning:
Oh that's good!!! I have to say I've been there done that. I ordered a super warm coat and cant wear it without sweating unless its 0 out. Say I bet it would be great in a VW. And I ordered wool longjohns and cant wear them indoors. I certainly overkilled.
The good thing is. If im outside at work. I can holdout longer. I keep my mouth shut. Everyone thinks I'm freezing like them. But I'm not.
How do you work around this? Lots of patience while in the head, or wear a foley?? :-)
Tim
Woha, now that is serious amounts of cold stuff. Remind me never to complain again..
J.
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Here in Colorado, I got ... nothing. Different up in the high country though.
Max
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