Of the 3 I have in my yard now, I paid $200 for the '71 Super Beetle (Complete car) got the '71 Squareback for free (paid $300 to have it and a '68 Baja from Barstow) and got the rolling shell of the '65 Baja for free. Of course I have since put about $4000 into the Super Beetle, but the other two haven't cost me a dime.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jw" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:16 AM Subject: [Papermodels II 39028] Re: What I'm working on... > > Sophmore year of college, I bought $100.00 VW Bug. Became very popular as > the only starving student with a car. Cheap and easy to maintain but > drove > it into the ground as a poor student's taxi. ( I'll take you there if you > buy the beer and/or some gas.) When the cost of repair parts exceeded > $50.00, I sold it to the junkyard as parts for $50.00 and bought a > $100.00 > VW bug. I did that three more times while at school, though the last one > cost $125.00. > > Wildman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hungerford" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:00 PM > Subject: [Papermodels II 39019] Re: What I'm working on... > > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Paul McCool<[email protected]> wrote: >> I've had umpteen VW's myself, ranging from thrashed old beaters to a very >> nice Karmann Ghia. My wife and I got acquainted because our parents knew >> each other and when her parents told my mom that she was having trouble >> keeping her '67 on the road, my mother volunteered me to work on it. For >> free. But hey, she bought me beer, and in two months we will celebrate >> our >> 15th anniversary, all because of a Volkswagen. >> >> Paul M. > > The only VW I've owned was a '61 bus that had quarter-cylinder windows > at the back corners and a transplanted '67 Beetle engine whose > exhausts came out into the rear bumper so there were soot stains up > the back. Note that this was the first vehicle I ever owned, and it > was sold before I ever had my driver's license; I'd driven it quite a > bit for practice with my dad along in the passenger seat, but the one > time he tried to drive it he discovered that the transaxle was in bad > shape and decided it was better to part with it than try to repair it. > > It had that wonderful old VW stink to it, too. :-) > -- > Mike Hungerford > http://www.chthulhu.com/ > Freak out with your geek out! > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.33/2267 - Release Date: 07/27/09 > 17:59:00 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
