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on 14/10/2002 4:56 AM, Dave Hall at dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk wrote: > There was a time in the '60s when Sterling was in some sort of crisis, and > the amount of foreign money you could take out of the country for a holiday > was severely limited, to 50GBP I think. Mind you, that would have been $150 > then, and was worth several times what it is now! You had to have the > amount recorded in your passport! Maybe it was around then. > I remember that our 1500S Variant was almost £1,000 new in 1964 (about > $2,400). I'd guess they would have been about $1,600 in the USA if you > could have bought one. > > In 1966 there was a lot of talk about Britain joining the common market > (European Economic Community) and European cars would have become much > cheaper (they said!) as they had import tax on them, which would have been > removed. I would guess there could be truth in the story you heard. > I was about to buy my first car second-hand , and one guy offered me an Oval > he was repairing before he had finished it, in case the value suddenly > dropped and left him working for no profit! I didn't buy it, but ended up > with a much better Garnet red '59 Beetle. > > Sadly, imported cars have remained over-priced due to the profiteering of > the makers and sellers, though recent legal action has reduced them a bit. > VW were fined something like 40 million dollars for trying to stop Italians > buying their VWs from over the border in the Eastern bloc. Yes, it was very interesting indeed. It's funny the way that VW did things sometimes. We had the same sort of taxes down here for a while when we still had cars built in NZ. As soon as the taxes were dropped, Japanese cars started coming in the thousands and that was the end of cars being built here. Ben Doughney '75 1200L '63 1200 - Ringo '71 1600TL http://members.tripod.com/~superkafer/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/