Date:         Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:54:33 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
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From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Friday Beetle question
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Forget the naysayers :) On Beetle lists they probably say the same things about vanagons. Hobbies don't generally make money. Have fun!
Jeff 
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> On Oct 7, 2016, at 3:31 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> 
> Eric, 
> 
> Run, don't walk, from this money pit!  A friend of mine inherited a '67 a few years ago thinking he'd get it on the road, and $1500 worth of engine work later he gave it away.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Eric Caron
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 12:19 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Friday Beetle question
> 
> Friday Beetle question.
> 
>        Not far from me sits a 67 Beetle at a private garage.  It is a basic hard top and well used and some rust.  It had a original owner that used it up to about 100,000 miles then parked it in a barn.  for a few years it has sat under a tarp in the garage yard. 
> 
> I think it is original in all ways no special steering wheel, original shifter and wheels and all that stuff.  It was running when parked. 
> 
>        I’m telling myself to not go look at it but a friend asked if he would sell it and he said originally he was going to fix it for his daughter but she doesn’t seem interested. 
> 
> Any thoughts on what to look out for if I was crazy enough to take Basically a well used 67 bug in original condition with about 100k, and some body rust but probably reasonably solid.  I’m sure everything well worn.
> 
> What is it worth?  What kind of offer would I be expected to make?
> 
> What are goods and bad about the 67 bug?
> 
> If I took it on it would be a long term slow retirement project.
> 
> 
> Eric Caron
> Not in need of another project and really just a bus guy.