Shipping Container Find! Mint VW Van stolen 35 years ago
A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport. Customs agents found the 1965 VW on Oct. 19 when they opened a shipping container bound for The Netherlands.
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Check out Ebay-there is a company who completely rotiseree restores these old micro busses and they bring big bucks!! beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!
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1970 Fastback (to be finished outside as a Boss 302 clone)
393 Windsor AFR 205 heads with 11:1 compression
Tremec TKO 5 Speed
Link to my Hub Garage and blog about my car http://www.hubgarage.com/mygarage/maxum96 My car as of December 2009
Love how simplistic those old Microbuses were. Creature comforts were -- wait a minute--- what creature comforts? Oh yeah, they had roll down windows anyways...LOL
You never saw them on the highway, though. Those 35 or 45 hp flat fours were working their guts out getting up to 50 or 60 MPH at best.
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67 Fastback GT -- original colour (Frost Turquoise). 1st pic is the car as it now is.
2nd pic is of me and the same Mustang - May '67, with original F70-14 Wide Ovals.
Gee.....a Deadhead tune on the AM radio and a funny-looking cigarette and one would be all set.
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70 Mustang Vert--Konis, Addco, springs, Shelby drop, SSBC front discs, 2.75:1 T-lok, Magstars, Michelin X-Ones, 302, Autolite 4100, cam, Hipo manifolds, C-4. Not a car like I had when I was a kid--rather, a car like I WANTED to have when I was a kid.
Also into American Flyer electric trains--Its never too late to have a happy childhood.
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I don't think I would mind if we had a law that all VW microbuses must be exported to the Netherlands.
....sorry. Just been wanting to do that lol
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06 V6 Premium - "Hidalgo"
67 C-code Fastback - "Tombstone"
My Mustangs don't get chick names. They get horse names.
When Hugh Hefner dies, will anyone actually believe the ubiquitous eulogy statement: "Well, at least he's in a better place"
So the police are calling the restoration shop in AZ a victim. That shop was PLANNING to sell the vehicle overseas, but hadn't yet. Can you imagine being in their shoes? You throw a heap of money at your car to restore it, then pay to get it shipped to a bunch of potential buyers overseas just to have customs agents discover it was stolen then take possession. Now Allstate Insurance will title it, auction it and pocket the crazy profit. That claim they paid out in 1976 was probably $700.
I read the LA Times story on this and they reported that Allstate paid the claim $2,500 and now its worth $25,000......No wonder they want it back.................
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2001 Bullitt Dark Highland Green #4507
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Shipping Container Find! Mint VW Van stolen 35 years ago
