How much did you pay for your first VW?

How much did you pay for your first Volkswagen?

i made a mistake i got it for nothing but i pushed other!! sorry 🙁

$1000....and I wish I kept it ,59 baja.:cry

yes well, technically my Dad got my baja for $1200 but he also got my brother's baja, my sisters superbug, 5 engines, three gearboxes, several sets of wheels and mags, boxes and boxes or parts and miscelanious stuff.

$2000 no more to pay.
Drive away with 12 month Reg and a roadworthy.

Would you believe the Bloke had trouble selling it because people didn't like the Motor being exposed.

That was 4 years ago last Monday and it still looks unreal.

Since than it's had a optional new bigger engine and I changed the Interior after having it Judged harshly at it's first Show.

The car still hasn't cost me more than $3,000 and that includes the reco Gearbox I put in 2 weeks ago.

Nobody except myself, has ever worked on the car.

I have a total of eight Trophies and I got paid a shit load to have photos taken for a up comming add campaign.

I would sell my Ford and I would sell my Toyota, but I will never sell my Baja.

🙂😀😉

$1200 for Bel:kiss

Well, if you count the first VW I had to drive, a type 3 sqback, when I got my license, nothing😀

It was dad's. I got to drive it all the time on the condition that I took my mum for the shopping. A fair deal:thumb

Dad wrote it off one night coming home from work late:cry By that stage I was away from home, living in the city and using my feet to get around

[Edited on 12-10-2003 by jenz58]

My first was a pristine 64 i bought back in '80. It was perfect and i never realized just how good it was. I paid $1200 back then but in hind sight it was a steel for its condition. Most others were selling for $500 - $750 for good ones.

As for best value that was Daisy. Under $6k and included a fresh 2L (as in new bearings, seals, cam, P&C's, fully powder coated tin etc and rebuilt heads) powder coated cookie cutters 12mths rego, fresh paint and interior

$500 for the car intiially, but will spend upto a couple of thou b4 it hits the road (i am particular about how i want it), on the other hand, made around $500 selling spares of the spare kombi that came for free about a week later, so not doing too bad.

First beetle in the U.K cost me 200 pounds and I ended up throwing it away, rust and more rust.
Last beetle in the U.K cost 30200 pounds and spent another 4000 on it.

My kombi cost me $1500 and up to now I have spent about another $5000 - $7000 and it still needs paint ect, should end up costing me about $20,000 in the end.
Them splitties aint cheap to do.

I got back from living in the U.S for afew years & dragged one of my yanky friends back with me.We bought a kombi in Q.L.D,it was a '71,1600 & cost us $2500 what a little ripper she was.We drove her over afew months from Noosa down to Melbourne stopping everywhere in between & we didn't even check the oil!!!!!!She never let us down,"the old girl "was her name.I kept her for a couple of years(eventually checking the oil) & then she finally went to that big veedub cloud in the sky!!!I then bought my '75 that i still have 2day.😀😀

How about another thread,

how much have you spent on your VW (and no bullshitting)

i bought my bus for the princely sum of $600 but have spent well over 10 times that on her to get her at the stage she is now

Col

i got my first for $400 a 71 panel,but it blew up ,still lasted a while just didnt like big trips,

Kombicol wrote:How about another thread,
how much have you spent on your VW (and no bullshitting)
Col

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

good one Col

Ya wanna make us all depressed do ya?????

No - i dont want to even go there thanks😀

I bought my first beetle in 1976 from my girlfriends Mum for $700 it was a 67 and it was also my first car. I killed the motor 6 months later and with my older brothers help i rebuilt the engine and it went well for a first effort, it was still going when i sold it 4 years later....
That was 16 bugs and 9 kombis ago......

190 quid in 1965. A Manly Tan 1956 oval reg no. GOY 722.
Is it still out there??
Did heaps of miles & taught me lots. Replaced in '68 by my 1st cabrio- GFM 053-a '54 Gunya Grey with pale blue sides & burgundy seats for the outrageous price of $550. (People couldn't understand why I paid twice the market rate for a beetle sedan) Now that one MUST be still around!!

$6000 for the Lugged One money well spent too,oh yeah without rego.🙂

$800 for my kombi camper last year. I've spent a fortune on it since but only because I love it!

I paid $2500 for a low mileage 65 Beetle, one little old lady owner, gave up driving, so I bought it! 10 years of trouble free motoring, picked up two of my children from the hospital.
And the worst bit is, I SOLD IT! still kicking myself.
Rob......

I payed $950.00 for a 65 Type 3 Wagon in 1971. Bought it from Motorways a VW Dealer in St Peters Sydney.

The place is a hardware shop nowdays, still have fond memories when i drive past the place

$50, I was 14yrs old and I drove it home with no guards, also had to sit on a box as it had no seats, only one front wheel would work with the foot brake and the rear only worked via the handbrake !!!!!

I drove it on a Friday in peak hour traffic from Asquith to Hornsby Heights !!! (about 5k's). I then spent two years sideways on every fire trial I could find !!!!

Those were the days..................


My first legal VW was a $650 Baja, also being my first legal car😀

FIrst Vw Cost me 16000 for a 92 Golf Cab. First REAL vw Cost me 1000, and About another ARM to finish it (THE NOTCH). The Bug has cost me 10K so far, and Still needs just about Everything. Will Prolly cost me 20-25k in the end, but Will be sweet!

N!

I swapped a Subaru Leone with a blown head gasket for my 1st VW, a '66 13 window splitty...sweet, also had 12 months rego and a 10 foot Barry Bennett surfboard from the early 60's in it plus it was full of parts...

It began then and has turned into an addiction...just ask the neighbours

My 1st VW was a 69 Fastback & it cost $2500 in '91. Had a new paintjob & interior. Paint turned out a bodgy as rust started to appear after a little while! I probably got ripped, but I loved the fasty anyway. So far the 65 square has cost about twice as much as the fastback di & it's not on the road yet! I reckon I'll be up for over $10K before I'm happy!

Paid $800 for Shazza and dont regret it (2002)

Spent

$800 for rego and insurance 🙂

$400 on new hoodliner and rubbers

$150 on engine parts after fire
:cussing

$300 for installation of 1600TP that i scored off Decked Dubby

$120 for white walls

$120 for Rear venetians

I love her and reckon i got an awesome deal as ive had no other probs with her

:beer

i had to answer 'other' because i paid 560 uk pounds for my bay camper, and i don't know what the exchange rate was at the time.....

kai

embarrassed to say!.. TOO MUCH!!, but it has taught me alot, the savings i've made with the information here has paid me back ten fold 😀😀😀

what have u done so far green57

cant wait to see it 🙂

Free free free the joys of having a free 57'😀😀😀😎:thumb😀😀😀

well my 'first' set me back 3k, I shoud have paid 1😠.. the others came at a much better rate 😀:thumb

xxx - the one in a avator still looks the same as the day I got it!, still sleeping under the carport...

[Edited on 13-10-2003 by green57]

Hey black math, just wait till you have to start working on it and putting it together, and replacing things. I know your bug is in good nick considering but it will need a lot of work and money, os you've got all of that in front of you...better start saving...

Oh well itl be worth it,😎show quality😎

Spent $4400 after dad talked the guy down from 5k. Quite happy about that seeing most of the other beetles i saw between 1-5k were pretty rusty, some had bits missing. dad rang me at work of an evening to tell me to get to their place the next day (1-2 hour drive) and just buy the thing! Shes a bit of a fussy car but she suits me fine 🙂

I paid $1000 for a white notchback.
I got ripped off in the order of $950.

I see the posts have started to get more realistic 🙂

I paid $3500 for my fist Bus an 8 seater that I paid too much for I reckon I spent another 2-3 before I sold it for same a few years later. Even put a nice Weber progressive carb on it, not reccomended 🙂

Second one was a camper Paid $2000 for it, had been sitting idle for 3 years. Still it was a solid unit. Ended up dropping a valve so did a rebuild and replaced the interior there went another 2k and the rest. Sold it for about 4k.

Third was a camper, paid 6 buts its solid runs great and the guy just spent 5 on it... poor guy. Have to sell it now because I bought the beut ute.

Fourth.. The Ute !!! Parted with $3500 maybe a touch too much in retrospect but its nice complete rust free and the interior has been redone, cant complain. Ive spent another few hundred so far doing the brakes, servicing it and other bits and pieces. Its at the mechanic today getting the balljoints done and a once over so im expecting another 500 or so there. Still I reckon $4500ish for a nice straight ute is worth it !!!

In the end of the day you can spend what your happy with and I always do. I looked at some crap campers for 6k when i last looked and some nice ones for 5, go figure.... But the trick is finidng one that isnt going to break the bank in the coming months 🙂 I looked at a 78 Camper bewdiful paint, but it needed mechanical work.... The guy was selling with a reco engine, asked him when. He said 10 years ago !!!!! Anyway it ended up selling for over 7k. I offered him 4 knowing the work it needed.

I always think If I had a new(er) car I would loose in excess on 3k a year on it anyway. I have always sold my dubs for the same or more than I paid so my running costs are my depreciation, you wont get that on a new car. And dont forget the FUN FACTOR !!!

Oh nearly forgot a 73 beetle for $2k that replaced a dead 120Y 🙂 It went for 3 years never missed a beat, spent about $5 on some generator brushes !!!

😎

In 1982 , I paid $ 1500 for a 72 Beetle, Country car.
Was pretty good, a little rough, and yes ended up spending heaps more on it.

Scooter

I think you have done well with the ute :thumb

scooter wrote:I see the posts have started to get more realistic 🙂

I'm sure nobody is Bull shitting but if you think I am here is the out lay.

Baja with fresh paint $2,000
1600 Twin port S/H $ 500
Carpets $ free
Falcon Seats $ free
Door trims $ free
Shockers $ 120
Exhaust $ 130
Reco Gear Box S/H after it was involved in a Major accident $ free
Parts to fix what was Bent $ free
Chrome Bits for the motor $ 80

Nearly everything on the car has come from other cars and I've fitted it myself so there is no greedy Labour charges. 🙂

ByronBus....

I reckon your right !!!

Added another $500 to it yesterday its like a different Bus now !!! unbelievable difference.

It actaully turns now hahahaha

i Paid $1800 for my '74 bus with 4 months rego with only a new muffler and engine bay seal being needed to pass rego.

it also got a good looking over by the mechanics and got some things fixed up for another $1500.

$300 for an oval shell, glass and bootlid in 1989. Then $350 - I think - for an IRS pan to go under it. Then about another $12K doing it all up.... Ouch! It's a little ill at the moment, but I still have it
:bounce

Free for my first 1963 beetle that I restored over a few years (whilst on the road) - handed down from my brother.

Then there was another freebie from an old couple (current project in members ride section) - spending way too much on it.

The 64 double door panel - $800 which included rust (but no engine).

man, i'm depressed now... spent way too much on my bug -- impulse buy... love it, don't wanna have to part with it:cry

My Oval cost me $500 .. Took the battery outta my Notch stuck it in and drove it home