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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:55 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:18 am 
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Someone needs to scoop this one up fast!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=789314

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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:26 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:31 am 
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ffemt300 wrote:
psychosquirrel wrote:
Someone needs to scoop this one up fast!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=789314

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If anyone is interested in this call or PM me. I got the scoop on this seller. Interesting story.


I have seen this oval for sale before. What is the deal?

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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:44 am 
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So this guy Eddie is In Downtown Dallas somewhere. He also had a 72 Beetle that I was interested in for my wife (before she found out that beetles dont have A/C). We were actually on the way to look at it when she found that out. Anywhoo...I talked to Eddie on the phone and he told me that these cars had been in storage for the last 15 years somewhere in Dallas. They were used as evidence in accident cases involving VWs. Apparently someone in an accident with a vw would try to sue Volkswagen and these cars are exact duplicates of the cars that were involved in the wrecks. There was this gold oval, the green 72 that I was looking at, a type 181, and quite a few others. The cars had to be held in storage for so long after the case was over for some reason or another. After that period Eddie bought them from a lawyer type dude, if I remember correctly. The cars seemed to be in really nice shape other than loads of dust. I never actually got to see any of them but I thought it was an interesting story. Definitely a cool oval. Please don't quote me if you talk with Eddie, but that's the gist of the story he told me. He has more info. Someone go get that oval!

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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
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It also looks like Eddie has sold most of the cars because the last pics I saw, that building was jam packed with beetles...

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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
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ffemt300 wrote:
So this guy Eddie is In Downtown Dallas somewhere. He also had a 72 Beetle that I was interested in for my wife (before she found out that beetles dont have A/C). We were actually on the way to look at it when she found that out. Anywhoo...I talked to Eddie on the phone and he told me that these cars had been in storage for the last 15 years somewhere in Dallas. They were used as evidence in accident cases involving VWs. Apparently someone in an accident with a vw would try to sue Volkswagen and these cars are exact duplicates of the cars that were involved in the wrecks. There was this gold oval, the green 72 that I was looking at, a type 181, and quite a few others. The cars had to be held in storage for so long after the case was over for some reason or another. After that period Eddie bought them from a lawyer type dude, if I remember correctly. The cars seemed to be in really nice shape other than loads of dust. I never actually got to see any of them but I thought it was an interesting story. Definitely a cool oval. Please don't quote me if you talk with Eddie, but that's the gist of the story he told me. He has more info. Someone go get that oval!


Thanks for sharing the story!

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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
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Cool story- but for the cost.. I have seen it come and go a few times in the last year or less. Seems as if it would be up for sale for all of ten minutes.. and SOLD.........

Why I wonder??

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 Post subject: Re: Samba Finds
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56 oval 400 bucks in Texas
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