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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Herbie The Love Bug Replica For $20,000?
Detroit, 7:28 PM
Sat Nov 28
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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Herbie The Love Bug Replica For $20,000? |
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[cgi.ebay.com] Buy it now for $17k
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Say what you like about her, they were mighty perky in that movie.
11/28/08
Nice Price, really. I mean, great shape, Herbie-fied... but at the same time, if I'm gonna pay more than twelve or fifteen for a Type 1, it's gonna have a Porsche drivetrain.
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As I type this she is on the phone explaining how awesome her Black Friday shopping is going. She left with a fist full of hundreds this morning and smiling.
god I am so fucked.....
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Dude...
I feel.. so badly for you.
A Convertible BUG.
But I have to ask.. what does she drive now.
And I need to remind you.. the Bug isnt in fashion anymore. It was.. about 15yrs ago.
11/28/08
A 2006 Impala.
She wants a summer car of her own. My summer cars aren't her cup of tea so to speak, too many horses, to loud, to manly. I'm throwing pictures at her all the time. I need to find something in the vert' bug price range but not a damn bug.
11/28/08
Triumph Spitfire.
MG midget.
MG-B
Fiat Spider.
Slightly more masculine, and closer in price to a Beetle convertible will get you a TR6 or an early boat tail Alfa Spider (or a pretty recent cam tail)
I'm assuming we're only talking convertibles here, and a really nice Jaguar XJS convertible can be had for Beetle money.
More obscure, but still attainable can see a TVR Tasmin (280i)
About as girly as it gets, but still cool (but perhaps too modern if she's looking at old Bugs), the early '90s Lotus M100 Elan would make a fine ride.
That said, there is nothing particularly wrong with a Beetle convertible; There are just a lot of cars that I would rather have for the price.
11/28/08
Good list, thanks.
I have keep my blinders on with domestic convertibles as the choice but I think branching out to the euro's is the key to making her happy.
Those cars would be fun for me also, which is why I can't think of having a bug vert' since no matter how hard I try I don't think I would feel right in one.
11/28/08
I don't fault anyone with enough money having a summer car, something tossable and fun. But it's so much more fun a car if, when it hiccups, you've got the chops to straighten it out if it isn't anything major. So keep the Missus involved.
It isn't very manly in itself, but the Karmann Ghia convertible, by virtue of its relative rarity, might be a suitable substitute for your sweetie's bug addiction. They're every bit as tuneable as the Beetle, so if you want to add some go to the show, it's not a big or difficult job.
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They made, like, twelve of them.
11/28/08
There are three on ebay right now.
[cgi.ebay.com] $8100 reserve not met.
[cgi.ebay.com] buy it now $10,200
[cgi.ebay.com] $2500 No reserve, but it's got 7 days left.
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You can boost a VW to decent horsepower levels, downright impressive power on a bhp/lb basis, but nothing gets you past the 1940s engineering and the fact that you're getting ready to drop some cash on a 40+ yr-old car. Add to that fact the complete and utter nerdliness of driving a Herbie clone, and you see the thing is priced about $23,500 too high before anyone with a little self-respect will get in it.
Actual Herbie or licensed replica: cool. Herbie knockoff with no beans: twinkie.
11/28/08
The seller goes to all this trouble and doesn't finish the last little bits and bobs?
I'd like to know what possessed him to spend all this time and effort on it. How did he sink $25k on this, not counting labor?
11/28/08
[www.volocars.com]
But it's $4k more than "Max" from the current round of VW ads:
[www.volocars.com]
Realistically, without any provenance, a replica Herbie is worth no more than any restored non "Herbie" Beetle. A restored 1963 Beetle isn't worth $20k.
As seems typical within the NPoCP series, this seems to be about twice what would be considered an optimistic price. Crack pipe, my friend. Crack pipe.
11/28/08
Those people at Volo are full of it. Their "Max" isn't even real.
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Hmmm
Yeah but knowing her.. and her penchant for being extra slutty...
The backseat prob looks like someone died..
And seriously.. I put no value on Lesbians in a Beetle.
On the other hand.. it is the VW primary audience
And ANY serious money for a replica of Herbie.. youd have to be SMOKING A COUPLA PIPES...
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Anyway, the seller would be more convincing as a crack-free individual if he'd actually bothered to finish the project. Eejit.
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That would be kilometers per hour...
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There's one in the Terrace, BC area with probably $10k invested in the engine, and it regularly shows up and terrorizes the drag-strip there. I have no idea what kind of horsepower numbers he's pulling in, but I have cheered loudly as it ran neck-and-neck with a pretty nice 5.0 Mustang. And in a stoplight race about a year and a half ago, he whomped my 240-horse Corrado without much effort.