Auction win Mk1
Put a single late speculative bid on this on the Bay not expecting to win it; thought it would be good for spares and original body would be good as a spare runner if I did. When it arrived surprised to find it was in much better condition than I expected, came with original electrics and number of spares various, surprisingly including the original spare ball joint.
Chassis is Mark1 vintage and solid in all respects. Appears to have had very limited use. Body has easily repairable roof crack and slightly more taxing rear wheel arch crack, properly executed repairs should make it close to A1. Brake fluid bath will reveal if any other damage, original paint job so doubt there will be. Luckily have spare original rear cage, nose cone, front and rear light buckets and lenses. Wipers, camlocks and switch cover will come via the rere. An unexpected additional SRB project that will definitely be a runner once cleaned up etc.
My winning bid was £111.00 excluding postage which either suggests value of originals has completely crashed ( ? ) at less than 50% of UK SS2010 or that I just got lucky bearing in mind the current value of original body shells.
Comments
Crash Cramer
Very nice buy.
tuff bug
Nice find I think restoring these is great fun and now parts are cheap this body has different fenders to the 2010 version which looks more like a monsterbeetle body
slimmy
Nice find and a decent price. Not bad
Henk4Focus
Wow what a bargain.
swedishwiking
Exellent original at a great price! Dont think the prices have crashed, You propably got lucky on this one. Enjoy!
Kokuzu
Yes, seems like a lucky catch! Not all new releases are for the sake of vintage collectors....
generationx
Looks like you got a bargain!
Fernado Alonso
Nice buy!!!!
def4x4
Great find, and a good price! Enjoy the restoring!
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