Try this link for some good price comparisons. The samba is usually pretty close to market value.
TheSamba.com :: VW Classifieds - Vehicles - Type 3

I came very close to having a Mexico blue SB for a first car. Not sure where that would have set on the cool scale compared to the 944.

same 1 in Samba 6th one down that Brew 66 posted ... Volkswagen : Type III | eBay

Same here, Sid... but it wasn't that close for me... and the SB was a beyond-boring metallic medium brown.

This was in '72... right after my junior year at college ...my dad had looked around town for a coupla deals for me to pick from because he knew he would be cosigning for part of it... and he came up with the SB and a '68 Cougar.

I figured the Cougar would be a better chick magnet. It was. :cool:

$1600. I had some money saved from part time jobs and put $800 down, borrowed the other half. I never missed a payment.

Loved mine; the reason I own the TDI Sportswagen.... trying to capture the simplicity....

The first car my parents gave me to drive aroud in was a beat up '73 Fastback - the smaller sibling of the SB. Interesting little cars...fond memories...

-Z

joe bob................still laughing my azz off at yer statement "patrick is a douche nozzle!" gawd that was funny.


anyway we have some intrepid friends of ours that had a squareback. after many many beers, lots of tubing, more beers, and more tubing...............they made a SCORE LEGAL 4 seat with all having harnesses beards race seats, caged out squareback for off road racing. had more fun than a barrel of minkies. i mean they broke the FUN BARRIER x a mill-yon.

the car still exists here in az. and somewhere at home i have pics that i will try to find.


basically had some wheel well rust................WHO CARES??? out comes the super sawz -all and bingo they fit some fat yokohamas and some centerlines.

these guys did not care about winning..............AT ALL!


all they did was pass tech,pay the entry fee and come flag drop, they would go putt off the line, and then crack the beers. be it a 150 mile offroad race or a 250 they just chugged along-literally. i think it was a 2180. and they finished every race they entered.


they had a hell of alot of fun with that car.

There is an orange fastback for sale here in San Pedro... so far I have resisted stopping to look at it... so far.

Wonder if he would trade for a 944? ;)

Fond memories. The hatch on my SB wouldn't close completely - I still have an exhaust headache. Drove it with a blown out plug for a while - pretty loud. Always parked on a hill for starting purposes. Had a fuel leak that I fixed by disconnecting the fuel line every time I parked it and plugging it with a screw. I think that was only for a couple days.

I would buy another in a heart beat if I found a good deal.

here ya go in all its splendor. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1318332422.jpg

One of these pics is not like the other...

thats very good. let me 'splain....................

pic#1) is a class 8 SCORE truck at the mint 400

pic#2) is a SCORE legal squareback w/my amigos in it.

pic#3) is US off of KONA,hawaii scuba diving.



and now ya ask WTF are (3) different pics here posted??????



cuz i was scanning all the SCADS of hysterical(historical) archives onto my puter.