You! Yes, YOU! The ones sending us awesome Craigslist tips! The keyboard warriors! Internet commenters! You caused the death of this VW Super Beetle!
Instead of talking about it, low-balling it below the scrap cost, or asking for parts, you should have bought the whole damn thing and save it for next generations. Instead, this solid-ish Beetle will be turned into Apple Watch bracelets. You should feel bad!
From the ad:
1973 super beetle – $350 (lex)
I had listed this for the past six months.nobody wanted to pay anything for it Vw people are cheapest people ive ever dealt with.I posted these pictures for all the people that jacked me around on this car. I hope you still need the parts
Go buy an old cheap car right now and at the very least drive or shitcan race that thing!
Source: Lexington Craigslist
Much like the one guy in the firing squad that had a blank cartridge, I too will absolve myself of guilt in this situation by feeling like you other guys are the people who actually are the problem.
How is this situation called, junk shaming?
Or perhaps “shame junking.”
“Junk Shaming” sounds like a bad day at the beach.
…or the bedroom.
Shrinkage.
Well, the idea came from “fat shaming”.
Don’t blame me; after all, just last week I bought an old Rover.
Exactly. We can’t save them all now can we? This apartment dweller owns 6 cars and counting, the last two Frenchies bought in the last two weeks.
I admire you for, in a post shaming people too cheap to make a $350 purchase, boasting that you are blameless because of a $200 purchase.
Does my €800 Volvo S80 count? Also I’m on the other side of the Atlantic, I have an Eunos Roadster (Miata) to sort out and the dog ate my homework.
Isn’t the seller the one to blame though? I mean ultimately he’s the one who pulled the trigger and junked it rather than even just let it rot in his yard or something. If he really wanted it saved, he could have let someone lowball him.
I guess craigslist is your equivalent of Irelands Donedeal sitel, every country seems to have an equivalent. You do sell stuff on it, but it’s a world of hurt where you attract people who can’t understand basic English (and not because English is not their native language) and want to know over the phone if you’ll take a few hundred off the price and take their pokemon collection as trade in.
Surely if he really cared about the cars survival, the place to advertise would have been the various VW forums?
Old project cars are hard to sell, there’s a guy over here selling a partially restored Wolsesly 18/85 for €600, he’s done the major bodywork so it’s a steal really, but it still hasn’t sold. A lot of things have to line up to sell a car like this. A buyer with not just money and desire, but time, somewhere to keep it and the mojo to take on a project right now.
Sorry?
No, but I haven’t yet tried installing a set of batteries.
What kind of Rover did you buy? A real Rover saloon, or a Land Rover agricultural mechanism?
Not precisely either of those.
http://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8853/18466596336_ef97b92660_n.jpg
http://hooniverse.info/2015/06/10/craigslist-crapshoot-124/
Bitter much?
Look, you provide the money and the place to store ’em all, and I’ll gladly build up a collection of near-junk in need of full restoration.
Are Super Beetles so rare that this is an actual problem?
I was under the impression that one could buy enough repro parts to essentially build a complete Type1 from all spares*. Is that not the case?
*I ain’t done a lick of research to support this claim, but I know this is possible with some cars like the original Mustang, so why not the Type1?
Ah, a chance to dredge up something even older than Emacs vs. vi:
What’s the big deal? It’s not like a Super is a real Beetle anyway.
vim is obviously the way to go.
Clearly “Vw people” are to blame here.
Everyone I know with an air cooled VW is convinced that everybody else in the VW community are a bunch of frothing lunatics.
That can’t be true; I’ve owned two air-cooled VWs myself.
What, and you think your lunacy doesn’t froth?
I prefer to think of it as effervescent.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140811135738/legomessageboards/images/5/50/Waaambulance.jpg
Some points are best made with a My Little Pony image.
I’ll not get sucked into the VW vortex.
In looking at the ad, the seller lists the VIN as “hxxjfjfjcjfkfig” so I’m not convinced this really is a ’73 Super Beetle. There’s also no photo of the data plate. Buyer beware.
Size is listed as Compact. The EPA classification system defines this as having a passenger and cargo volume between 100 and 109 cubic feet. Clearly this car is now a Minicompact.
Let’s go after him for false advertising.
That’s likely just an innocent typo for Compacted.
From that last pic, it looks like the floor pan might still be good for a dune buggy or kit car.
You forgot to say: “I’ll take it for free”.
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Don’t worry, there are still millions of better one’s on the road.
Why didn’t you “save it”, dumbass?
http://www.drugsandmeds.com/m/images_us/heel-calming-homeopathic-tablets.jpg
No tears for the Plymouth Voyager, the Caddy, or the Jeep in the background?
I can’t believe that a Chevy 4×4 pickup actually got scrapped.
I guess, I’m a big air cooled fan, and even I know super beetles suck. Good riddance! Although, it would have made a great Baja Bug…now I’s sad… =v(
whats wrong with superbeetles?
Honestly? Nothing’s wrong with them. The revised front suspension is arguably an improvement and the resulting increase in trunk capacity is handy.
Emotionally? Owners of non-Supers are contractually obligated to view Supers as an abomination unto the sacred perfection of the original design and a contemptible pollution of its purity. This remains true until such a person actually owns a Super, from which point forward the non-Super-owners are seen as pitifully ignorant and needlessly reactionary.
I’ve never owned a Super, so I’m still in the former category.
The whole issue has its parallels in chrome- vs. rubber-bumpered MGs and “my model is the last real model” for SAABs/Saabs. At this point so few people are personally involved in any of these disputes that it’s mostly just fun to rehash them.
And don’t get me started on what some people claim to be real actual Rovers.
You think that’s bad? You should see what I claim is a real actual Vanden Plas.
http://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8252/8471188718_c118d20b11.jpg
Perhaps not a real Vanden Plas,(where’s the All Aggro grille?), but that might be even more of a Rover than your ‘other’ one. The Maestro was the last car designed by the late great David Bache, designer of the Rover P4, P5, P6,P8, P9, SD1 and Land Rover Defender and first Range Rover. One of the world’s greatest car designers. And not just according to me http://www.automobilemag.com/features/magazine/1505-the-25-greatest-designers-of-all-time/
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Yay, you got it fixed? Antti just shared this, I was going to suggest it: http://ww3.autoscout24.de/classified/268292653?asrc=st|as&testvariant=list3tiers&tierlayer=st cheers
No, it was the Metro that got crunched, not the Maestro. I don’t know that I need a Montego just yet….
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know We all want to change the world
You tell me you wanna stop evolution
Well, you know, We all want to save the world
But when you stop VW destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know, we’re all doing what we can
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right?
All right, all right, all right, all right…
Anarchy!