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On 3 Dec 2003 at 19:44, Russ Wolfe wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:28, Keith Park wrote: > > And I agree with Toby... many of us bought our ENTIRE car for $350! and > > even the really nice ones really dont deserve a $350 gauge, especially a > > non-vw one. And keep in mind, that after all these years this gauge will > > need a complete reconditioning and calibration to be accurate again. > > > I didn't even give $350 for my '71. It was a gift. "Get it out of my > yard, and you can have it." One of my best type 3s was the 71 AT I bought for my wife. I paid $75 for it and drove it home. I replaced about 4 quarts of oil in the 5 mile trip; the case was cracked. Once home I dried it out because it had a shot out side window, replaced that window, rebuilt the front axle and replaced the bent lower right trailing arm, and did a temp fix on the case which held for 6 months while I built an engine for it. The new engine outlasted the car, which we drove for more than 10 years. All thing considered I've never gotten a truly cheap car, because the ones with the really low purchase prices always soak up a lot of after-purchase repair expenses. Those expenses never included a $350 tach, however. Most of the fancy crankshafts I buy have actually cost less than half that.... -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org