€20k For a 33 Year Old Vw? Anyone?

Volvoboy

Came acroos this as i was cliking around on eBay,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INCREDIBLE-1973-VW-T2-VAN-NEVER-USED-GENUINE-21-MILES_W0QQitemZ200090584764QQcategoryZ18303QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ya couldnt imagine putting millage on it:)


-VB-

Guy:Incognito

Looks spanky.

crosstownk

Wow! What a collectors item. It'd be a sin to put miles on it. It's an ornament now.

peasant

A very expensive ornament, though

If you'd rather DRIVE a VW type 2 ...import one from Brazil ...they're still building them there

See here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055064398

crosstownk

I knew it was only matter of time before peasant showed up in this thread

Seriously though, what price are they in Brazil? I'd no idea they were still in production. I thought all that stopped around the same time the factory in Puebla, México stopped making the original Beetle a few years back.

peasant

I have no idea how much they are in Brazil, but taking into consideration that some UK crowd offers a fully converted (camper, what else and in RHD) for 20.000 STG (see linked thread) ...they couldn't be too expensive.

Bringing one into Ireland, what with duty tax and VRT, might still be a fairly expensive exercise though.

Guy:Incognito

You'd imagine VW would buy it off him.

crosstownk

Stekelly wrote:

You'd imagine VW would buy it off him.

Good point - surely it would have a worthy place as an exhibit in the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, or some similar VW museum.

peasant

Don't know for sure, but I'd imagine they'd have a few of them already.
They usually kept their last of line models straight for the museum.

(cynics say that's because their last of line models (especially the Beetle and Transporter) were so seriously out of date when they were replaced that the museum was the only appropriate place for them )

Guy:Incognito

Even still though, this would have a story to it, make a nice museum piece.

bazz26

It's a pitty they don't make them like that anymore.

Bradidup

bazz26 wrote:

It's a pitty they don't make them like that anymore.

I believe they still do in Brazil.

drdre

wow thats expensive
somone bloody bought it

Sabre Man

I once drove a 1971 model. Great car, but not to drive.

G Luxel

on the subject of vws, there is a mark one golf still built and sold in South Africa as the citi golf. I did read in one of the UK advertisements that the Sao Paulo factory is to stop building the Type 2 bay window van . As for the last of the line models in the museum, I remember the different publications showing a blue beetle with flowers on the bonnet and a headboard reading 2I million rolling down the factory line in 2003 as the last one but I think the car sent to the museum is a white one?????

DonJose

The Beetle was built in Mexico up until 2-3 years ao, they had a special last edition model that sold for roughly €5,000. It came in a nice selection of colours and had white rimmed tires like in the photo below

http://www.bubaklubrijeka.hr/slike/ultima.jpg

DonJose

G Luxel wrote:

I remember the different publications showing a blue beetle with flowers on the bonnet and a headboard reading 2I million rolling down the factory line in 2003 as the last one but I think the car sent to the museum is a white one?????

That would be this Beetle, made in Puebla, Mexico in 2003, with Mariachis serenating in the background.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/4c/250px-Snap0072.JPG

overdriver

I saw one of those Beetles at a car show last year. Lovely.

Biro

If one had lots of money, you could just pick some rare limited edition car made today and buy it, and dry store it for 30 years then sell it!! Like the RB320 or something.

galwaytt

cripes, that's lovely..............only problem I'd have is hacking it to make it RHD..........