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I wonder how many countries there are where it's actually legal to drive with those lenses. Daniel Baum 1969 Type 34 automatic http://www.qldesign.com/type34 > > I could go either way with something like this. > > Now, if you paid this kind of money for every part you bought > for your restoration/customization, well, heh, yeah, that's pretty > dumb. > > On the other hand, as far as I know, these lenses are very > rare. I have never seen a set on a car, in thousands of classifieds, > or among the wares being hawked by many hundreds of swap meet > vendors. I know that personally, I'm seeing them at a rate of about > one pair every fifteen years. ;) > > If somebody woke up this morning and decided that they wanted > to come up with another set of lenses like this, I bet that without > some incredible luck, it's going to take many hours of > posting/searching thesamba, mailing lists, ebay, and club > newsletters, combing through swap meets, making phone calls to local > shops, and so on. > > So, if these lenses really tickled your fancy, would it be > worth ten, twenty, fifty hours of your time to track down a set? If > so, then $150 would probably be worth it to you. > > Personally, I wouldn't put these particular lenses on my car > if they were given to me for free. I sure would like to be the eBay > seller on that auction, though -- I would be making two people very > happy, I'm sure. ;) > > -Greg > (...who recently spent a stupid amount of [gift] money on a NOS > rubber floor mat in beige, perfectly matched to his beige Beetle!) > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/