Fiat 130, $2000
The 70 beetle I just sold to David777, I almost bought in 1993 just after it had been restored. It came up again 8 yrs later. Thought about it all that time...
"Tell him 'We've already got one'"
the yellow type three square on here a while back. yellow, lowered on widened wheels with an 1835 running dual webers... went to buy it but had been sold the day before... i was a very unhappy chappy.
i love my columbus though... but i'll always love the squares
Oh! Yes!
Then there is the all original one owner (my dad) HT Holden Brougham with a 253 V8 in it. Dad also had VL Commodore. Whenever I visited Perth when I was living in Canberra back in the 1990s, I had a choice between the two and I always drove the Brougham.
I offered to buy it from him for about $3000 and he refused. About a week later he had a head on collision with a Mark 2 Jaguar and it was written off by the insurance company. A young man who works at the local service station bought it for $700 and has lovingly restored it. That's cool as he has done a very good job of it.
From dad's estate I inherited the Commodore. I was double de-chuffed at that.
I wish I'd bought every block of land and every house that I've stopped to look at in my lifetime. The one I DID buy in 1997 for 110K is now valued at 260K. If wife had let me buy the others..... *sigh*
the early model squareback that was down the road when i was living in west end... looked a bit worn inside, outside seemed pretty straight though a bit ratty (which is a good thing)...
and it had rivieras...
$1500...
im such an idiot.
in the beginning, the universe was created.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
I remember about 12 or 13 yeards ago there was a guy in country Victoria (might have been Romsey or Kilmore..somewhere like that) who was producing replica's of genuine beetle convertable's, which included as per factory reinforcements, hood bows and soft top etc etc for about 5 grand. These bodyshells had any rust removed and repaired properly and were mint, and sold for about 5 grand or so.
I don't know what happened to this guy or his shells but damn I wish I bought one!
Someone else may remember these also?
yea resurrection panels they did hebs as well they were bloody close to the real thing but can still be picked
i have seen a few around
i think someone on here was offered the moulds a little while back
-Joel
