Re: [T3] Variant 1600

[DGaries808@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/27/01 12:21:38 AM Central Daylight Time, 
DGaries808@aol.com writes:

<< Subj:     Re: [T3] Variant 1600
 Date:  10/27/01 12:21:38 AM Central Daylight Time
 From:  DGaries808@aol.com
 Sender:    owner-VintagVW@listproc.sjsu.edu
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 In a message dated 10/26/01 11:48:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
 jcecil@charter.net writes:
 
 << Subj:     re:[T3] Variant 1600
  Date:  10/26/01 11:48:40 PM Central Daylight Time
  From:  jcecil@charter.net (Jim)
  To:    type3@vwtype3.org (type3.org)
  
  I found my '66 on the internet and flew out to buy it, ended up not
  being all the guy said it was and bought it for half of
  what he wanted for it.  I bought my '69 by e-mail pics and phone calls
  and the car was a little less
  then the person described.  I don't think I would buy another car this
  way unless it was such a great deal (and not very
  pricey) or someone I trusted took a look at it first.  There are very
  few VW's up here in the midwest to
  choose from.
  
  Jim
  
  James Wallace wrote:
  
  > Interesting. It is really scary actually thinking about buying a car
  without seeing it in person. I don't think I can do
  it. Is there anyone on the list that has purchased via email, phone, and
  pics? Experience, good or bad?
  >
 
  Nothing but bad. I bought a 1952 Zwitter out of Ontario last year, and it 
 was the pits.
 I paid $12,370 for it, didn't realize it but also paid $3,900 for delivery. 
 And it cost me
 about $5,000 before its first show. That a bunch of change. The transmission 
 is now
 in the shop being fixed, and that's gonna cost about another $500 to $1,000.
 
 I also bought a 1955 VW for $9,700  two years before and spent $20,000 more 
 before its first show. 
 
 Obviously, two different people had quite different appraisals to these two 
 cars. The two cars probably would have had to come to me for free, if I 
 didn't know that the restoration business was expensive as hell. That's 
where 
 the rub comes from ... restoration.
 
 Don Garies
 dgaries808@aol.com
 

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