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Awesome VW bus collection
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Beautiful buses, fo sho.
Btw, that B. Reynolds TA was actually a Camaro to begin with? ;) |
Yes, beautiful buses - OK for a collection. However, I owned one bus and two campers back in the day along with some beetles, & I have to say I wouldn't own another bus or camper. I would like to have aother mid '60s bug though.
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I guess that I should have worked on being funnier, nice collection.
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They need some GD stickers .
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Good looking buses but, they are the worst shifting manual ever.
I like his TA cars. |
"Each one is worth one to two hundred thousand."
Lost me right there. They better have solid gold distributor points. |
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If you follow that logic, then a '58 to '67 Rolls should be worth about a million. They're not. VW made 110,000 Samba's, the rarest. I don't need to tell you Rolls never made many cars in the VW air cooled era. Survivors? Yes, that's probably the biggest factor here. But the 4500% increase in price over the years, if factored into the current price of a 1500 run '73 Carrera RS, then I guess it all works out, except the 110,00 vs 1500 production. |
I've got a 66 standard 11 window walk through microbus. Have owned it since about 1991. It's absolutely insane what they are selling for, even through Bring A Trailer auctions, which I would consider current market prices.
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I had a '67 walk thru but no windows except the usual. And a little bit bigger rear window due to the year. I bought it with the normally dropped valve on no. 3. Drove it a couple years as a work truck when I was house painting. Sold it for maybe a grand.
The funny part is I bought a Dodge truck and my business doubled almost immediately. I had the long hair and along with the bus I guess the image wasn't what my customers wanted in a painter. (They were always older who could afford painting by a contractor.) This was in '75. |
I'm down to a '71 single cab, which still brings a lot more than they used to. Runs ok, but thinking of plugging in a 2.0 911 engine for a bit more power. Should be fine against the stock bus trans. Done a few in the past. Gotta spring for a set of new fold down gates from Klassicfab. It was one of my many bus pickup shop trucks that I was lucky enough to buy back. They do drive a whole lot better than the splittys.
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Back where I came from they were called Kombis. Never had one and haven't desired one, but I respect those who drive and enjoy them.
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