Most expensive split screen
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:10 pm
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Most expensive split screen
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Re: Most expensive split window if seen
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:22 pm
Nope... this is it Marius...
Volkswagen bus fetches $217,800 at Barrett-Jackson auction = R2,161,512 (two million, one hundred and sixty one thousand, five hundred and twelve rands) at today's exchange rate of 9.9243
At the Barrett-Jackson auction in Orange County, $159,500 could buy you a 1964 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III James Young sedan. A mere $165,000 would put you in the driver’s seat of a 2005 Ford GT. Doling out more than $200,000 nets you a . . . Volkswagen Microbus?
That’s right: According to Barrett-Jackson, a 1963 VW Samba Microbus went for $217,800 after the buyer’s fee. The soaring selling price was undoubtedly a surprise, but the gorgeous mouse-grey-and-pearl-white bus is first-generation and restored to better-than-new condition. It has a German mohair headliner, all original latches, handles and ashtrays, and this particular ’63 model just won the best bus award at the VW Classic event.
Volkswagen bus fetches $217,800 at Barrett-Jackson auction = R2,161,512 (two million, one hundred and sixty one thousand, five hundred and twelve rands) at today's exchange rate of 9.9243
At the Barrett-Jackson auction in Orange County, $159,500 could buy you a 1964 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III James Young sedan. A mere $165,000 would put you in the driver’s seat of a 2005 Ford GT. Doling out more than $200,000 nets you a . . . Volkswagen Microbus?
That’s right: According to Barrett-Jackson, a 1963 VW Samba Microbus went for $217,800 after the buyer’s fee. The soaring selling price was undoubtedly a surprise, but the gorgeous mouse-grey-and-pearl-white bus is first-generation and restored to better-than-new condition. It has a German mohair headliner, all original latches, handles and ashtrays, and this particular ’63 model just won the best bus award at the VW Classic event.
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:26 pm
Wow that's crazy
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:24 pm
That's crazy. My cheap baywindow will do thank you...
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:59 pm
Maybe there's hope for all of us 
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:34 pm
Dutch_Diver wrote:Maybe there's hope for all of us
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:13 pm
Whoah Yohbie! I hope she never gets to hear you talk about her like that!yohbie wrote:That's crazy. My cheap baywindow will do thank you...
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:10 am
What I'm saying is my baywindow is worth a lot more to me than what I paid for her, for one.Drusky wrote:Whoah Yohbie! I hope she never gets to hear you talk about her like that!yohbie wrote:That's crazy. My cheap baywindow will do thank you...
And some might find this a bit strange but my baywindow is worth more to me than the splitscreen above... Why you might ask? Because I can use her on fun trips and holidays to her full potential without me worrying about a two million rand car getting wrecked.. I can actually enjoy my bus.
I see the split above as nothing more than a very expensive show piece. That bus does nothing more than my bay.
What I'm trying to say here is that my bus will serve me better than a very expensive museum bus...
Some might find this strange and won't agree but its how I see it.
Re: Most expensive split screen
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:01 am
Might Agree there Yohbie
Would be very nice to have a 99.9 % Og
But
As we all know the time that one spends restoring any of these beauties builds a relationship that some might even call Priceless
I do believe the value in a Splitt - Bay -Bug -Beetle and any of the others
Is the look that one gets from the flash cars that pass you cruising along at a vey mild speed of 80
One could even say its Envy
There is something about these cars that just bring a warm fuzzy feeling to young and old
So then allot of Money can get you the look but good hard dedication to the cause of restoring builds a bond that is PRICELESS
Would be very nice to have a 99.9 % Og
But
As we all know the time that one spends restoring any of these beauties builds a relationship that some might even call Priceless
I do believe the value in a Splitt - Bay -Bug -Beetle and any of the others
Is the look that one gets from the flash cars that pass you cruising along at a vey mild speed of 80
One could even say its Envy
There is something about these cars that just bring a warm fuzzy feeling to young and old
So then allot of Money can get you the look but good hard dedication to the cause of restoring builds a bond that is PRICELESS