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The Rocket Salad posted:Here's a nice polluted tract in scenic South Jersey, contaminated with some Air Cooled ephemera. As someone who recently got the air cooled itch, this poo poo makes me sadface. The white Ghia especially so, there's pretty much no saving that car. Not worth it. It's been pretty hilarious looking at ads for split window vans too. $4k for a rusty non running, not complete car. Bad sadly that seems to be a legit price  And holy gently caress balls the price of "Correct" barn doors. Yes sir, I want to spend 60+k on a 6volt 36hp van. Yep.(I just don't quite get some facets of these things. I can't see the value in keeping everything factory original when doing things a bit different make it a much more usable car. But I don't want to own a museum piece either, so that's why.)
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slidebite posted:If I had even the slightest need, I'd be at this guys door with $3K in an hour. Hell, you could probably get it for $2000 or so considering it looks like an estate liquidation. Having owned a Town Car I cannot substantiate the claims of 35mpg. 25 was a drat good day on the freeway. Would be a good buy though if you were into a big gas guzzling saloon. I had my phase.
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Jun 26, 2011 06:20
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 Yep. Color? Naw. Who made it? Pfft. It's little. It's got a USB charger. Buy this poo poo.  VW with a Porche engine! Well, technically yeah, but probably not really a 914 engine, probably just a stocker 1600cc Type 4 engine that they started throwing in them in 1972. Honestly kind of curious what he'd take for it, but probably thinks it's worth 5k+, which it's not.  Hooray projects.  This thing won't fold in on itself or anything, since the roof wasn't a major part of the car's structure, right? Oh... you mean the convertibles had extra steel to compensate for not having a roof? Oh well, it'll be fine guys. I hate seeing chopped bugs
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Aug 4, 2011 06:54
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madattheinternet posted:Usually a guy like this will count replacing tires, timing belts, batteries, fluids and gas as they are consumed as upgrades. And there's that aftermarket wheel, those gauges, that head unit, probably the pedals, and the cold air intake. I'm sure he didn't install them himself, so when you add in outrageous labor, you could get pretty close to $6k for all of that.
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Aug 12, 2011 15:11
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Tongsy posted:This is pure gold, these cars are sweet
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Aug 12, 2011 17:29
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No cool Datsuns for sale in my area right now. Just a couple of guys relisting their horrible project cars that need way too much work and are asking way too much for them. Really wish I could snag this bug tho! $1500 for a running 63 with a 40 horse motor? That thing could be true gold, if there isn't a lot of pan rust. 
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Aug 17, 2011 16:22
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Possible gold, on my way to look at a 500 buck running with title 67 bug. Let you know how that pans out. Make sure the floor pans are in good shape and you probably did find gold. If they're bad, it's still a pretty good deal. Also, if you can check the frame head.
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Aug 28, 2011 23:27
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Its gonna need a tow, pedal assembly is frozen solid. Pretty extensive pan and drivers side rot but it does have spare metal and parts included though. On the other hand it was very complete and had popouts. Could part it out and make money, or sacrifice my sanity to try to get it roadworthy. Considering offering 300 due to the rot and needing a tow. Ouch. Yeah, you would be better off parting it out then. I'd actually be really interested in the popouts, because they should fit my 74. And you can get a few hundred for a running engine, and a hundred or two for the trans axle.
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Aug 28, 2011 23:59
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Hah, I asked the 'Trap about that and we decided it was time for a new one whenever I get myself something worth making a project for. No worries, there shall be misadventures when the time is right. Seriously though, if you get it I'd love me them pop outs. The buffeting noise from not having them in my bug is annoying. Although I suppose shipping might be an issue, I'm in AZ, and have no idea where you're at in this world.
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Aug 29, 2011 01:44
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tween_spirit posted:Going back to CT this weekend and I really want to go check this out, I feel like it'll go pretty quickly at that price. This was my first car. Well, mine was an 82 titled as an 83, which was an issue when it came time to replacing the drive shaft. Check all the rubber bits you can. Vac hoses under the hood, and if you can get under the car the flex disk between the tranny and drive shaft, and the guibo-jigger that supports the drive shaft in the tunnel. These things are annoying to replace, and are wear items. Clearance between things on the underside of the car is a complete pain in the rear end. Outside of the fact that they crammed things too closely together, the car is pretty easy to work on. It is not however fast. It feels fast though because its small and drives kinda like a go-kart. The engine is an m10, not e21. e21 is the model code for the 3 series between 77 and 83 by the way. m10's are stupidly hard to kill. Mine wasn't making contact between the head and the headgasket in 3 spots due to someone not bothering with proper coolant and using straight water instead before I got it. I had a buddy who ran one on 3 cylinders for a couple years before he replaced it with an m42 (don't do this unless you're good at custom fab work. I'm not). In short, I'd kinda love to have one again. I'd offer $1500 if everything checks out. No one collects these except really weird people, and people with 2002s steal parts from them all the time (namely 5-speeds and limited slip diffs).
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Sep 23, 2011 16:37
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kimbo305 posted:Can you critique this one?: That's a lovely and pristine looking example. I'd be willing and happy to pay for that one provided the rubber in the driveline is in good shape. Hell, I'd probably buy it even if it wasn't, since he took care of the gas tanks. It also has bitchin euro bumpers, and the install job was good. Those suckers from what I recall were around $200 a piece. The recaro front seats are also really nice pieces and quite pricy to try and get aftermarket. A little worried about the engine knock at high rpm though. I've not heard of that symptom before. Could be something as simple as motor mounts, or the engine might need to be rebuilt with new bearings... It's worth noting I guess that the 83 had a weaker 3 piece transmission, and the 80-82 had the "stronger" 2 piece 5 speed. But if you're not going to push more than 200hp through it, it shouldn't be a problem. And these cars only make 105ish stock on a good day, so you should be pretty safe.
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Sep 23, 2011 17:13
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kimbo305 posted:The body is in good shape, which is nice around here. I'm surprised that he didn't have that dent on the door pulled - couldn't be more than 100 give how simple the curve is there. I asked and he doesn't know about the guibo. Might be easy enough to feel if it's really sloppy if I end up seeing it. A few people are interested and one guy seeing it before me tomorrow. Yeah, the sad news about aftermarket wheels on e21s is that they typically don't work well. You can find some nice ones that will work without spacers, but you have to look around for a while. I'd be worried about the lugbolts as well. Lugbolts are soooo annoying to deal with anyway You'll know pretty easily if there is an issue with the guibo when you take it for a test drive. If you accellerate hard and there's an awesome pounding knocking kind of sound coming from the trans tunnel the rubber has worn out. (http://www.pelicanparts.com/bmw/techarticles/E36-Guibo/E36-Guibo.htm figures 9, 10, and 16 are pictures of what I'm talking about. Guess I'm calling it the wrong thing. Yes I know it's for an e36, but the same kind of crap is under an e21)
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Sep 23, 2011 20:25
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slidebite posted:How do they mount the rad and route the hoses in a Subaru swap? I know a lot of the VW guys who do it to bugs run metal exhaust pipes up to the front and mount a radiator up there. In the late models that had air conditioning, that's where they would put the condensers. Depending on the costs of the mounting plates to get the transmissions to mate to the subbie engines, the swaps wouldn't be that bad. I've seen some guys who have done subbie swaps on ACVWs for under $4k for everything. They're usually just swapping in the non-turbo motors though, ej22's if I recall correctly.
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Sep 30, 2011 05:38
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:or cl search 653csi and pick through the 6 results. I didn't black it out for this forum specifically. I kind of doubt he did. I've seen a number of these for sub 3k even in my area. All of them need work, and some of the parts are going to be harder to come by. Although there should be a decent chunk of stuff shared between similar era 5 and 7 series (driveline particularly) some of it is gonna be 6 series only and a pain to track down.
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Dec 7, 2011 15:49
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Crustashio posted:http://novascotia.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-cars-1989-BMW-M3-W0QQAdIdZ380711295 Take off the spoiler and get a stock hood and that car might actually be worth while. You'd really want to look into how well that swap was done though. Oh, and you may want to redo the interior to get rid of the stupid yellow. e30s, the M3's particularly are so drat boxy and sexy to me, because they try to have little curves and it's cute.
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May 19, 2012 15:12
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Crustashio posted:S5x is actually a pretty common e30 M3 swap as it is reliable as hell, more powerful, and cheaper to maintain. I think S5x swaps should be left to standard e30s, but people can do what they want.
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atomicthumbs posted:
Wow. I've also driven a theft recovered Neon, which was a friends and I was running some errands with and for him. A key cylinder that can pop out is a weird thing to deal with man. But this doesn't even have that. Considering the dealings I've had with some people lately, I'm going with complete idiot, who thinks he got lucky that the owner kept everything in the glove box.
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