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wcfvw69 
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^^^  That is a big job ahead of them. |
Right!
While I applaud there effort in restoring it, sometime you have to accept you screwed up and bought a bad car, part it out and take your lumps.
I could possibly see the time and effort being put into a split or something rare but that poor body needs to put out of it's misery. |
It says in the text that they specifically found a resto candidate that was "too far gone" in order to show their customers what was possible. |
I did see that comment. I guess I was just saying that there's "too far gone" and REALLY too far gone like what they bought. 
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Cerot
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A guy told us he crashed a beetle in the woods 30 years ago, and there she was.
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bobnorman
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motofly196
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Location: Eastern WA
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| DAMN! What did he crash into? A 55 gallon drum of sulfuric acid?? |
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cseay1
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Location: Elkwood VA
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| wcfvw69 wrote: |
| cdennisg wrote: |
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| ^^^ That is a big job ahead of them. |
Right!
While I applaud there effort in restoring it, sometime you have to accept you screwed up and bought a bad car, part it out and take your lumps.
I could possibly see the time and effort being put into a split or something rare but that poor body needs to put out of it's misery. |
It says in the text that they specifically found a resto candidate that was "too far gone" in order to show their customers what was possible. |
I did see that comment. I guess I was just saying that there's "too far gone" and REALLY too far gone like what they bought. |
How much of the original car is going to be left? Looks like they're just using it to donate its roof and rhd dash
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notchback
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| cseay1 wrote: |
| wcfvw69 wrote: |
| cdennisg wrote: |
| wcfvw69 wrote: |
| cdennisg wrote: |
| ^^^ That is a big job ahead of them. |
Right!
While I applaud there effort in restoring it, sometime you have to accept you screwed up and bought a bad car, part it out and take your lumps.
I could possibly see the time and effort being put into a split or something rare but that poor body needs to put out of it's misery. |
It says in the text that they specifically found a resto candidate that was "too far gone" in order to show their customers what was possible. |
I did see that comment. I guess I was just saying that there's "too far gone" and REALLY too far gone like what they bought. |
How much of the original car is going to be left? Looks like they're just using it to donate its roof and rhd dash |
Maybe will.i.am needs a new car.
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bvolks
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Blue Baron
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Randall
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Location: Orange County, Alta California, El Norte
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth |
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Belgian forest car graveyard.
Interesting story at the link below includes a 1 and ½ minute video. Someone posted a different link a year ago. This one is a more thorough, updated story.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/dtdesign/belgian-car-graveyard-revisited/ |
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69vwcarl
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It blows my mind how Rusty some can get when they really are going back to earth... i think about stuff like this often.. how can some be found good and still fixable and sitting outside and others are just GONE...... what is the tipping point..? What is the extra added ingredient that goes from a rusty but salvageable VW to just ...Toast..? I think of these real bad ones from time to time.. its almost as if they have lost there will power to hang in there YA know!! there like AGH no one is going to restore me F*** it... and other just hang in there waiting to be saved... who knows here is a few me and my Buddy have found. Ive got more also.
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bvolks
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:02 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth |
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I wonder the same thing. My brother's '67 and my '74 Beetles were parked with in a year of each other and sat side by side for the last 28 years or so. Mine is rusted badly, to the point of having the bottom plate of the tunnel nearly gone while my brother's car has hardly rusted at all underneath.
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Cerot
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 10:08 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Ran across this 1974 412 in the bushes today...
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vwspotter
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Deluxe Lowlight Ghia
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Went to look at the early 57 ghia and was a nice og paint lowlight ghia however the price was going up as I was standing there looking at it. Im not sure who got to buy this lowlight ghia.
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whizzy
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ronjonlasvegas
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:59 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Went to look at the early 57 ghia and was a nice og paint lowlight ghia however the price was going up as I was standing there looking at it. Im not sure who got to buy this lowlight ghia.
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Look what just popped up in the classifieds for sale.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1952988
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SkyDawgVW
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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'59/'60 Ragtop
'60 vert
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spencersk8
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Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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66 pulled outta trinity county California last year
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spencersk8
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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hoffvw
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 10:28 am Post subject: Re: VW's Rotting Away, Sitting In Fields, Returning To Earth... |
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Not mine, from an abandoned car FB feed:
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