Stop It. Just Stop It.

"mtdrift" (mtdrift) 03/14/2016 at 11:25 • Filed to: None

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Hey everyone! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

At that point, you might as well add one more zero and call it day.

GordonBombay > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 11:28

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Honestly my favorite part is that there’s a magazine in one of the pictures titled “How To Make it in America.” Perfection.

DrJohannVegas > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 11:31

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With the swap, this is about market for one of these. Actually, it might be a bit less than market. They go much higher. Why? IDK. (Rarity, maybe?)

coelacanthist > GordonBombay 03/14/2016 at 11:38

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That’s an ad for an ill-fated HBO show that was actually semi okay. Ironically, one episode features an over priced van which is insured as an art piece in order to perpetrate fraud.

Leadbull > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 11:39

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Any respectable hipster’s trust fund can handle that.

GordonBombay > coelacanthist 03/14/2016 at 11:39

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Oh really? I’ll have to check it out!

McMike > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 11:40

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Can’t be too sure of the shape it’s in, but if it’s fully sorted and ready to roll, that’s a $40-45K van, easy. $55K seems high.

Lot’s of nice parts on it. (bumpers, wheels, dual locker, etc..)

I looked at his listing on The Samba, and he said,

Strong AC (non-VW, goes w/ Ford Z-Tec motor).

So, that means that the compressor is non-VW. Everything else, including those 40+ feet of hoses is all VW

Übel > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 11:41

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That’s about right. Engine swap, Westy, and Syncro are all worth their weight in gold.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 11:55

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 12:00

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PowderHound > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 12:08

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At that point can't you spend a bit more and get a brand new Mercedes sprinter 4x4?

mtdrift > PowderHound 03/14/2016 at 12:13

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Hell, a brand new 2016 base-model 4x4 Sprinter starts at $44k, that leaves you $11,000 to kit it out with cool stuff.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 12:16

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agreed. it’s just insanity. there is no other explanation.

PowderHound > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 12:17

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Yup, I choose that option

Steve in Manhattan > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 12:32

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If you haven’t seen this documentary , watch it.

And sure, these things are iconic, they are fascinating little death traps. I’d love to have one. But 55 grand? No mileage listed that I saw, but 10K on a new? rebuilt? engine? If diamonds come out of the exhaust on startup, maybe. Otherwise CEEEEEEE PEEEEEE! What’s it worth, really? 25 grand tops?

Loping Camshaft > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 12:46

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What the market will bear and such...

Now that Delicas and Hi-Aces are becoming legal to import, I’m pretty much over most VW vans.

mtdrift > Loping Camshaft 03/14/2016 at 12:52

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I love that snorkel! So adorable.

Tim > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 13:09

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A guy I sometimes ride MTB’s with mentioned that he’s got a Syncro being built by a shop in Ca. He casually mentioned that he’s got over $80k into it. If it was anyone else I’d call BS, but this guys has a lot of money and went into all of the neat things he’d paid them to do to it....
I hope he uses it, but I have a feeling it will just sit in a garage somewhere.

RallyWrench > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 13:20

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That’s not even the most expensive I’ve seen. I live near GoWesty and they’ve sold them for more than $75k. Just nuts. Now everyone with a rusty wreck thinks it’s worth $20k. Even a decent daily driver tin-top is over $5k now.

mtdrift > Steve in Manhattan 03/14/2016 at 13:21

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I know the guy who made that movie! His Bug Movie just came out this past month.

I’m also a total VW homer (I own two Beetles, and used to have a ‘68 Westy), and I still don’t get it.

Steve in Manhattan > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 13:27

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I want to see that Bug movie now ... wonder if there’s a way to get it? The Bus was a great documentary, better than that Mustang documentary I watched earlier in the month.

That's gonna leave a mark! > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 03/14/2016 at 14:13

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How about a lot of these people are high and it just hasn’t been passed our way yet?

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > That's gonna leave a mark! 03/14/2016 at 14:35

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Even high off-my-ass I would never pay that much for one of these things. As a mater of fact if I were high as a kite (we’re talking marijuana here, like the neo-hippies who think these are worth it) I would be MORE likely to fall down in an uncontrollable laughing fit at this.

Have Jeep, will travel. > mtdrift 03/14/2016 at 18:56

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One Westy Syncro and a lifetime supply of Nutella. One Westy Syncro and 40,000 scratcher tickets. One Westy Syncro and a few gold bars. One Westy Syncro a kilo of Bolivian booger sugar and a weeks worth of Strippers. There has to be something included in that Westy to sweeten the deal.

petebmwm > Loping Camshaft 03/14/2016 at 19:51

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yep.

Blind Willy > Loping Camshaft 03/17/2016 at 13:28

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Now THAT, I could see myself wheeling around the country in...

Loping Camshaft > Blind Willy 03/17/2016 at 13:46

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Totally. Judging from the ones for sale in Canada, they’re cheap too.

And they hold their own pretty well off-road:

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > mtdrift 04/06/2016 at 13:42

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I just saw one for sale in Oregon on Ebay, with a Subie swap, started at 14k. No idea what it will sell for.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > mtdrift 04/19/2016 at 18:14

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I did MAJOR rust work on a syncro vanagon of the same colour, it had 300,000 km was bought new in Quebec, then went back to Germany for awhile before ending up out west here. The owner has more cool german cars than you can shake a stick at, and that one’s his baby. Those who like them, like them a lot.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > mtdrift 04/19/2016 at 18:16

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it’s now powered by a subaru svx flat six and will burn all 4 tires up to about 85 km/h (have not witnessed this personally). but probably peppier than the wasserboxer he took out.

mtdrift > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 04/19/2016 at 18:16

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I’m a VW man myself (two Beetles and a 68 Westy - RIP), but I can’t conceive paying $55k for anything short of a Hebmüller. And I’d probably be short quite a few grand on that anyway.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > mtdrift 04/19/2016 at 18:20

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I’ve worked on many an aircooled vw, they’re neat, but I wouldn’t want to crash one. (so much Ghia lead work in a karmann ghia)

mtdrift > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 04/19/2016 at 18:23

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My Westy went to a friend, and then was demolished in a rear-end collision (thankfully).

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > mtdrift 04/19/2016 at 18:29

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yeah, that was best-case for a crash, being able to see the headlight buckets from inside is disheartening. -73 and up actually have a crumple zone and lots of bumper, but still sketchy.