It was done in the early 80s by a small company up near Perkasie PA. They rebuilt Bugs from the ground up and gave you a 1 year warrentee. I don't know if they are still in business. They also imported gray market European Sports cars. I use to go in there and drool. tim in san jose
>From: Daniel Brideau <dan@HOBBYETC.COM> >Reply-To: Daniel Brideau <dan@HOBBYETC.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: Junkyards are to blame >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:17:38 -0500 > >When I was still too young to shave, I had a grand plan to buy up VW's >(Beetles), and store them in some sort of semi-clean environment. > >The carcasses would be sorted as candidates for restoration, or donors for >restoration. > >My restoration process would be semi-assembly line. Strip to a bare shell, >repair all the holes and dents. Install all new rubber, seals, seat >covers >etc. Rebuilt engines, gearbox, brakes.. the whole thing as new as >possible. >Small crews that specialize in each area, working independent of each >other. > >Price them nearish a "new" car, and build them to order. Colors, sunroofs, >etc. > >But, who's gonna buy a 20 year old "new" car? Assembling a >sales/distribution program would be tough. > >Seeing the pricing on syncro campers, makes me think. > >Dan B >85 Weekender >87 Scirocco 16V >02 GTI > > > > > > > > > > Start buying these Vanagons and we can find a central location to >store > > > them, say, Kansas. > > > > > > > > > > naah.. bring em all here.. i'll line em up out back in the cornfield >:<) > > make a big aerial vw crop circle out of dead vanagons... ohh yea.. >pretty.. > > :<) > > > > chris > > _________________________________________________________________ One-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – download MSN Toolbar now! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ |
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