I have no car! Help
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BuggyFaron
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I have no car! Help
Well as I have mentioned before, I sold my MINI. I am going to wait for the 2007s to come out before I order another one. Soooo I will be MINI less until March perhaps April. I am thinking about buying a nice little classic bug to get around until then. Its a classic car so it will keep people from giving me pshaw for not owning a MINI. (I am the Internet Manager for the MINI Center of SA.) I want to buy one that is REALLY Nice, Quick and good looking. My plan is to drive the bug until the MINI gets here. Then pull the good motor and put it into the buggy! After that the bug will go up for sale. I prefer a Baja Bug, but will settle for a Cal Style Bug. I have a budget of somewhere in the neighborhood of $5000. If any body has a idea where a NICE Little Baja is, Please let me know! Thanks, Faron minifaron@yahoo.com
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BuggyFaron
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- Joined: Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:00 pm
Nope!
A classic MINI is to much money! I can get a REALLY Nice Baja for $5000. I will only be able to get a crappy little rust bucket Mini for $5000. Plus I am building a Buggy, and I will be able to put the motor from the bug into my buggy when all is said and done.
May I suggest that you do what I have done? I am the Vice President of the Western Australian Volkswagen Club and having sold my buggy I was VWless, which was a little embarrassing, so thinking that I would build another buggy I bought a 1973 Beetle. I turned it into a Herbie and now I cannot bring myself to strip it for the pan, for a buggy. It is probably the tackiest Herbie in the world. It has rust spots all over it, the mudguards are bent, split and badly painted and it goes DAKDAKDAK. Every time I go out in the Beetle I get a huge amount of attention. It gets much more attention than the biggy ever did. Kids love Herbie, older people smile and wave and at least once a week someone shouts, "Hey! Herbie!" I work at a high school where it attracts a lot of attention. So, I suggest a white Beetle of any age and condition, (mine is close to being a bomb), a set of numbers and stripes and a preparedness to be accosted by all sorts of people wanting to take a picture of your car.
I passed a "Herbie" the other day. They do make you smile. The most fun I ever had in a bug was a stock 1966 that I sold to a friend of mine in Napa Valley. We called it the "Le Mans Weeble"... We would pile in with a bunch of beer and take it out in the vinyards and jump it off off things, run into stuff, and hit water crossings .. All good fun until the battery would go down and we would have to take it back and put it on the charger. About then Christian Bros crack security would have us zeroed in anyway. We ran with the lights off and no wipers for both reasons, pretty fun times. That thing would go anywhere and was totally stock with the stingers missing from the muffler.
Fly up to Kansas, buy this thing, drive it for a year and then sell it for more than you paid for it. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=285837