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Million-Dollar Beetle? That’s the Asking Price for This 1964 Volkswagen Bug
Car and Driver ^
| October 3, 2018 AT ‎11‎:‎30‎ ‎AM
| Daniel Golson
Posted on 10/07/2018 10:06:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Mears
I knew an old mechanic who said,
Everyone should own a VW at least once in their lives.....but only once.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:23:51 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BenLurkin
Had a pretty nice ‘59 Beetle I bought in 1968 for $200 (iirc) when I was stationed in Germany, and I thought I paid too much! Drove that thing into the ground over the next couple of years. The ‘64 looked incredibly modern to me back in those days, lol. Good luck to them getting a million dollars for it, though.
To: BenLurkin
I remember they were advertised for $1776 in the local TV guide for years.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:25:56 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
To: BenLurkin
I have a 2001 I’d take alot less for
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:26:42 AM PDT
by
cableguymn
(We need a redneck in the white house....)
To: Bonemaker
As I remember, the US military would ship cars back to the States. I don’t know if they still do that.
My brother who was in the USAF in Germany shipped back a VW van ~ 1977. I don’t know if he paid for the shipment.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:27:12 AM PDT
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: BenLurkin
I remember a buddy of mine bought a VW bug for 75 bucks back in the 1970s. What I remember about riding in Bugs is how frigging cold they were in the Winter.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:27:32 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
To: blueunicorn6
When we sold it my then 7 year old daughter sobbed as it was driven away——I didn’t———we bought a Mercury Cougar instead,1969,and I loved that car.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:27:45 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: blueunicorn6
I’ve never owned a v-dub but I did learn to drive in a 1959 Karmann Ghia
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:27:57 AM PDT
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: blueunicorn6
A million dollars for a 6 volt system, syncros that last about a week, and will drop the number 3 exhaust valve on the first hot day?
The Germans took revenge on the world by blowing the oil cooler exhaust over the back number 3 cylinder.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:29:14 AM PDT
by
caltaxed
To: BenLurkin
I would buy one today if they still made them. I had 2 in the 70’s, also 2 Combi’s and a Carmen Ghia. The perfect cars for the age of commuting to work and city parking.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:29:58 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
To: 4yearlurker
“What I remember about riding in Bugs is how frigging cold they were in the Winter.”
A relative was riding in one with a friend in the dead of winter and he asked if it would be warmer with the windows down.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:31:12 AM PDT
by
alternatives?
(Why have an army if there are no borders?)
To: laplata
They wouldn’t ship them free for us back in the late 60s. Would’ve cost us an arm and a leg. Thus I just handed my keys to a “friend” (he was supposed to send me $50, yeah right!) and walked away when it was time to go home.
To: freedumb2003
......oh fer bucks sake. (clean ride)
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:33:10 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: BenLurkin
The ole boys down at the coffee shop always said if you’d just buy a new car and cover it up and keep it in storage somewhere, it’d be worth a million dollars some day...
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:33:43 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
To: alternatives?
Ours had an auxiliary heater in it-—on the floor of the passenger side.
.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:34:22 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: DickBrannigan
There’s nothing like German engineering, whether it’s cars or machinery or murdering six million people in cold blood.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:36:27 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: carmen2017
Bingo.
They obviously don’t want to sell it.
My college bf had a shiny candy apple red one.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:38:39 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Try at least 12 million. Covers all the bases instead of a select group of victims.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:46:11 AM PDT
by
DickBrannigan
("And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!")
To: BenLurkin
I wouldn't pay that much for a 1964 Beatle much less a Beetle.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:46:44 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: laplata
As I remember, the US military would ship cars back to the States. I dont know if they still do that. I was in the USAF, in Japan, in 1987. DoD would have shipped my car back to the states, if I'd wanted them to. I was offered a Japanese 1971 Datsun 240Z with a racing cam for $500. That might have been worth shipping back.
Only things you have to do to get your car shipped (at least in 1987) is drain the motor oil and coolant, and bring the car to US specs. Usually means replacing the headlights and windshield, nothing else.
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posted on
10/07/2018 10:48:09 AM PDT
by
jimtorr
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