What have you traded for a VW?

[Spezialist]

About 22 years ago, I traded a 1957 Double Door Walkthrough Panel Bus for an Original Endless Summer Poster from 1966

http://espn.go.com/espn/photos/gallery/_/id/961359...nica-calif

Today the poster is worth as much as a bus in today's market and I still have the poster.
Amazing, does anyone have similar stories?

I traded a running triumph unit 500cc for a 1967 Westy, that trade wouldn't happen today. Beater english bikes are still cheap.
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[slave1pilot]

not me personally, but a good story.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/50...en-beetle/
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My Photobucket for my Herbie Project - http://s1288.photobucket.com/user/TK-439/library/Herbie?sort=3&page=1

Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[CaliforniaBullies]

I traded my 32 ford grill, 32 ford hood that fits 31 ford, 28-29 ford headlight bar with 30-31 ford headlights and a 32 ford aluminum radiator for chevy engine for my cousins 57 vw bug

[vwracerdave]

A few decades ago I traded all my dark room and film developing stuff for a '69 Bug
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2010 Sportsman ET Champion - Mid-America Dragway - Arkansas City, KS
1997 Sportsman ET Champion - Thunder Valley Raceway Park - Noble ,OK
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Watch my racing video's http://www.youtube.com/user/okvwracer/videos

[Glenn]

I traded cash for mine.
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Glenn
74 Beetle Specs | 74 Beetle Restoration | 2180cc Engine
"You may not get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get"

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[Cusser]

I thought I traded my life away when I bought my 1970 back in 1972. I took on payments of $31.41 per month, my only vehicle payments ever.

Maybe that's why I can now be retired....
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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[c21darrel]

[79SuperVert]

I traded one of the early Compaq portable computers, a Yamaha classical guitar, and a couple of Nikon lenses, along with cash, for a '65 convertible.

The engine blew up a year later and I sold it for half what I paid for it. On top of that, my wife had told me it was a bad deal from the get go. BOY, was that an expensive experience!
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Central Jersey VW Society

Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt.

[IFVandal]

traded a 70 beetle for a 58SC and 64 Bus.
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Wish I had all my old dubs!

[60ragtop]

walnut shift knob worth about $20 for a rolling 65 parts bug less engine
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Rick
Certified Mechanic by the State of Michigan in 1977
ASA certified in 1987
Certified Hunter Wheel Alignment Master Technician 1986

[Plantman]

I traded a Marlin .35 cal. rifle for a '69 Bug.
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Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day,
No matter where you go, there you are.
'69 bug & '71 Ghia

[iowegian]

In 1967 I traded a rusty '58 Ford Skyliner and 400 bucks for a '64 Beetle.

[Bob Loblaw]

In the 80s, I let a guy drag away a '66 carcass. Traded for a case of Lucky Lager.

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sent from a phone using poor grammar and spelling

[KTPhil]

I am waiting for someone to answer "my marriage."

[my59]

I coughed up cash to the PO's estate knowing my dad got a third of it. I also ended up with some paintings that were otherwise going into the trash....a major auction house in NYC said they could flog one of them for 7 to 10k. The whole thing still pisses one aunt off to this day.
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my59: Well son, my grandfather died before I got to drive it, so does that answer your question?
our79: sunroof bus w/camper interior and 2.0 FI
Other:'12 Jetta, '77 Benz 300D, and a 74 MG Midget.

[TDCTDI]

I traded a '02 Passat (that I bought for$500) for a rolled 04 TDI beetle.
Then I traded the engine & labor for a Kimber TLE-ll, a Panther arms DPMS AR15, a SKS, and a Rossi .38 special. Then I sold the interior door panels for $600. Then I traded the trans for a Mac-9 & a Tec-9.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[pondoras box]

I traded a Specialized Rockhopper for a running driving 71 super convertible. Then traded it back to the same guy for a Jeep CJ-5 tuxedo park, that I then traded back to the same guy for a 63 ghia. We were and still are good friends and we constantly trade stuff back and forth. He bought my raspberry 63 sunroof car and I wish he still had that one to trade back for it was solid. Oh BTW I traded a basket case zwitter sunroof car for the 63.
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Looking for anything from Hal Casey Motors out of Hamburg New York, from license plate surrounds to matchbooks.

1961 23 Window (Bobo)
1965 11 Window (Zelda)
1965 13 Window (Lucas)
1957 Oval ragtop
1988 Cabriolet VR6 conversion
Plus a lot of other rusty junk

[swavananda]

Back in 95 when I was hanging around Taos, NM, I did a good old fashioned work trade for a mint,low milage,one owner 75 Westphalia. It belonged to a Widow and it had a small engine fire not long after her husband had died. She was never going to feel safe driving it again, So it sat in her barn for years. She had seen me hanging out in my beat up-rusting away Bus around town and one day came up and offered me a deal. Her homstead needed a lot of repairs and maintenance ,would I be interested in.........YES!!! .I can't remember how may hours or for how much whatnot , but we both felt great about it in the end.

[mark tucker]

not realy traded but I built my bug so i could get rid of my 454 long bed,4door,duelie with gooseneck&lift gate,airbreaks,acola wheels, high cr,cam rolller rockers,head work big valves,big ports,small chambers....and more......wtf was I thinking.

[EverettB]