My uncle has two of these that are in pristine shape ...



He told me he could get around $60,000 for each one!
And he has a two door one also... not worth quite as much though... maybe only $38,000.
Tragic.

There are a lot of them cruzin Puerto everyday. Three groups of hippies each have one and setup jewelry stalls on the beach every day. There's also a lot of Things (called Safaris here). Jeeps are still the King in Mexico 

€ 100.  they're all just made of plastic nowadays.

VW buses are still made in Germany (with a much more modern water cooled engine and chassis), though they haven't been imported and sold in th US since 2003. I happen to own a 2000 VW Eurovan pop top Camper. In the past I had a 1978 Bay Window pop top Camper, and my first was a 1970 non-pop top Camper. Check out  http://www.highcountrybusfestival.com/Welcome.html  for lots of photos of mostly older buses at one of our many FullMoonBusClub.com campouts in the South East US.

 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
By 1980 when that one was built they had most of the bugs worked out but it was to late and they basically folded in '81. The '80 & '81 TR7's are not all that bad. The earlier ones were a different story. A workmate of mine bought a '76 and drove it to work the next day and it caught fire and burned to the ground just sitting there. They determined there as a factory installed short in the dash that caused it.  I owned 2 1980 TR7's and actually had very little trouble with them. My main complaint was that they were underpowered and not as fast as they looked.

 DaveInVA wrote: 
always thought those were cool. I couldn't afford the mechanic to go with it, tho.
 

I don't have any pics of any of the 3 VW buses I have by themselves but you can see part of my '67 parked in front of my then nearly new TR7....

Goodbye to the VW Type 2

The VW Type 2, the world’s longest-running production model, dies in December 2013 with 600 of the 'Kombi Last Edition' to be built.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
Of all ages. I swear I saw one yesterday with plates from, as best I can tell, the late '50's.

 BlueHeronDruid wrote: 
Well there you go.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
And as you might expect, hippie town WA is loaded with 'em.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
what goes around...

 katzendogs wrote: 
They're evidently rare.
And everybody wants to be a hippie again.

Had a 61 and a 73.  The 73 was my 21st B-day present to myself.  Went looking for one, not finding anything, then got down to the dealer in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and saw one sitting on the truck, hadn't even been unloaded yet.  I bought that puppy for $3700, my first new car. 

I put 58K miles on it in the first 18 months, driving it from coast to coast to coast to coast.  The 73 had the powerful 1.7 liter 4 banger used in the old Porsche 914's.  The first year for a heater blower motor, too.  You could not be afraid of the cold to drive one.  It got 25 mpg and cruised at 70 all day long.

You had to love them.  It got vapor lock in heavy summer stop and go traffic.  When it was damp outside or raining, it wouldn't start unless bump started.  That is when I started to always back into a parking place and try to find one with a slope of somekind nearby.  For the last couple of years I didn't even have a battery in it, I just pushed started it and ran off the alternator.  In the wintertime, I had a set of 4 studded snowtires on that thing and it would go anywhere, cornering like a go-kart in a foot of snow. 

Damn that thing was fun.  It was towed away, rusty, beat and died a tired death in some Ohio boneyard after 10 years.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
Why?