I see your point, but I have seen some sick VWs, mostly in picts from car shows. Maybe all these being done by individuals..
I have also seen some intensive Bug restorations, and those cars are not worth nearly what a cuda is after a restore. I guess the number of Watercooled VW enthusiasts is relatively small. I guess its just nice to dream that there is an ultimate shop somewhere that would go ape on my 16V if I won the lottery or something. My guess is that some of these Hot Rod shops would have no problem doing an A2 VW, they might even find it a welcome change from their day to day. But you might have a point, if you have $50K+ to burn, you might turn to another car to burn it on. Larry -----Original Message----- From: DocWyte [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 6:07 PM To: Larry Velez; a2list Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] Top Level Shops for VWs? I'm sure the shops do exist. However, how many people who own VW's, particularly of the A2, A3 vintage do you know who have the funds available to give the car to a shop for 7 months and a ground up restoration, modfest and custom paint that will cost well over $50,000? The market drives the work done to the cars, if an owner had that kind of money to invest in a car, they wouldn't revamp an '88 GLI 16v for instance. The old american iron, like the barracuda, are worth significant money and doing a restoration of that sort kinda makes sense... -josh --- Larry Velez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Yesterday I saw a show called 'Rides' and they showed the revamping of > a 70s Barracuda. The level of detail and workmanship they put into > that car over a 7 month period was amazing. > Unfortunately the eventual > owner (the host of Fear Factor) told them to paint it all silver > instead of a trick paintjob they were planning. The plain paintjob > took away from the car but it was still amazing. > > I was wondering if there are any VW shops that do this level of work? > Or do shops like these only exist in the Hot Rod circles? > > thanks, > > Larry > 91 GTI 16V > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
