Lock up find

[Alusilber]

YRF 837M

✗ Untaxed

Tax due: 01 December 1997

MOT

No details held by DVLA

 

 

Vehicle details

• Vehicle make VOLKSWAGEN
• Date of first registration 01 September 1973
• Cylinder capacity (cc) 1300cc
• COâ‚‚Emissions Not available
• Fuel type PETROL
• Export marker No
• Vehicle status Not taxed
• Vehicle colour PURPLE
• Vehicle type approval Not available
• Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY
• Revenue weight Not available

 

[Matt]

his family want shut of it

 

If they just want the garage out of their lives ASAP, which it sounds like they do, then I doubt they'll have much interest in farting about with an old car in unknown condition Get asking what they panned to do with it.

[John F]

Everything has already been said. Just report back about how ripe the Beetle is when you've got it.

[Ghosty]

If that Beetle's good and it's not going for pineapple prices, I really wouldn't mind it.

[stripped fred]

Barn find beetle! This is what dreams are made of. You'll wake up in a minute...

[binhoker668]

Awaiting a photograph of the garage interior, as is, moments after you've opened it!

[sierraman]

Tax check says the road tax ran out in 1997. I wonder why it got laid up. Perhaps the owner gave up driving then it it was taken off the road to be restored. Who knows? I'll ring the council tomorrow and get it done. What's the value of something like that as a project? I know nothing about Beetles other than there were four of them and they made some good records.

 

Even if they wanted eleventy trillion pounds for the Beetle it's worth having the garage to keep for when I find some absolute bag of shit to keep in it.

[purplebargeken]

Garage round here is about 14 quid a week. 

 

Just. Fecking. Do. It.

 

Beetle, dunno. If it is a rusty shitter, couple of hundred at best. 

 

Happy to chip in a few quid for an AS Car In The Community Purchase. 

[Tamworthbay]

Barn find beetle! This is what nightmares are made of. You'll wake up in a minute if you are lucky...

FTFY

[vulgalour]

It's probably a 1303 Super Beetle.  Technically one of the better varieties and values are rising.  Â£500-800 minimum is what I'd expect in unknown condition with the price rising depending on what works and what doesn't.  Being a cabrio doesn't necessarily increase its value.  If that purple is a respray (which I strongly suspect) and was repainted in the 90s it's likely that it's full of filler and bodge as many cars were during the 90s classic car craze.

 

Still, it's a Beetle and if you can acquire it for a sensible sum of money at the very least you should be able to make back what's invested in it by selling it on complete.

[Pillock]

If it's a genuine Karmann cab, you're talking £3k starting price for a scruffy but complete example.

 

If it's just a beetle with the roof hacked off, scrap is at £30 a tonne. They're vile. Never seen a well done one, they've usually got a baggy roof and saggy doors.

 

M could be a SuperBeetle, they made factory cabs out of those too but you could also get flatscreen models in that year. SuperBeetle will drive better but has quite a lot of ugly ginger kid syndrome off the rivet counters so prices are a bit all over.

 

If it does turn out to be a proper cab, just spray it white and do weddings. A guy I used to know paid for his car and a £4k resto in two years doing that.

[sierraman]

Hopefully I won't get the sort of owner that equates old with valuable.

[stephen01]

At this money if you don't want it I will. Even if it's just to hid the panda in and tell the wife I've scrapped it.

[Pillock]

I was once sent by a friend to look at a homemade Beetle Cab that was for sale.

It was in a multistorey carpark in Nottingham, opposite Rock City. Hadn't moved in years, covered in a layer of dust. Once you got close you could see that it was in all essence a rough representation of what a Beetle should look like hewn out of a block of filler, and sprayed red. They'd tried to make pillarless doors but used standard glass, and the B-pillar remained so there was just an inch gap between glass and rear bodywork. It was hilarious. Roof was held on at the front edge with press-studs which are perfect for holding your coat pocket closed, quite crap at waterproofing a leading edge at 70mph. And the windscreen surround / A-Pillar area still showed hacksaw marks.

[sierraman]

Probably same bloke that's done the one that's in this garage I'm looking to puuurrrchassse.

[Station]

If the family haven't said you can have the Beetle, don't get your hopes up.

[fatharris]

Fuck it, go for it, if they don't want the beetle and you punt it on for a few hundred quid then that's the cost of the garage covered for a few years!

[martybabes]

Make sure the garage is locked.  Someone has already stolen the one that was next to it!

[jonathan_dyane]

Although it's hard peering through the dust it doesn't look to have the proportions of a super beetle and I'm sure by an 'M' Karmann had long stopped using the standard beetle as a base.

 

Verdict: hacksaw job.

[sierraman]

I don't think it was stolen, it fell down by the looks of things. I'll see what council come back to me with, if the owners want £ for it they can get it shifted if I take the garage on. Why couldn't it have been something like a Lonsdale YD41 in it instead! Or a Colt Tredia Turbo?

[billyboy406v6]

What no welding pics, this forum aint what it used to be ??

[burraston2006]

That garage is cheap as chips. Get on renting it! I had one in Yeovil last summer and it leaked like a rusty VW Beetle and they still robbed me of £50.00 a month.

[RobT]

I'd say just focus on contacting the council to bag the garage, and see the Beetle as a bonus (unless it's fucked).

 

You never know, the old giffer may have lots of old tools in there too.  Can't imagine the family will be interested in keeping such stuff, they'll just see it as junk.

[sierraman]

Rang council today, they said they knew it had an old car in it as the family said they'd dispose of it. I've gone in with the tack of the scrap man charging them to shift it, I on the other hand would oblige...

[binhoker668]

Good man.  Am sure I'm not the only one waiting for a massive result from this garage tale! 

[Slappy]

Is there a petrol station within viewfinder distance of the garage for when you make your acquisition?

 

If not, pity...

[billyboy406v6]

Seeing as it will be already in your garage, will that count as a collection fred failure ?

[sierraman]

Just waiting on council hearing back from the folks responsible. Apparently they're keen to get shut as they've no interest in keeping either the garage nor the car on. So wait and see...

[Squire_Dawson]

This is good... very good.

[Mike D]

Going by the 80's lilac I'm reckoning on it being a wizard roadster,  give me a shout if it is I wouldn't mind another!