Itinerant Air-Cooled

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https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/ ... BUS-200656

It's not *quite* lowered to the point of uselessness....

I guess I should've commented this much: go to the link and check out the amount it sold for.

You'd think for a 300k selling price they would have… something… ANYTHING other than this…

What no clear dizzy cap! For that kind of money I want to see the spark damnit.

Good thing they'll have a nice trail of oil mist on them wherever their road draft, err, pipe(?) goes.

Or maybe they could have pushed the spark plug boots on all the way.

Then again, maybe we're just bitter because we know that we work harder for our shit to work better/properly, and we don't make that much money on it.
Robbie

asiab3 wrote:maybe we're just bitter because we know that we work harder for our shit to work better/properly, and we don't make that much money on it.
Robbie

I'll just go give my bus a little smooch and drive it more than that poor gussied-up chrome-festooned hobbled Geisha Girl toy ever will.
SAD.
Colincoughcough

How will the future judge our polluting beasts???!?!?! Will they be dragged from our cold, dead fingers clutching a .006" feeler gage? Internal combustion is both elegant and obscene. Alcohol, how can we convert our Buses to alcohol? But that is still a greenhouse contributor, the crops and burning the finished product. Solar, if that nut gets cracked then all we need is electric motors, small ones at each wheel, instant 100% torque. I can't wait.
Is there a way to cat convert a singleport 1600? "That's a first world problem, Bob" I hate when people say that.
Water-gas, what the hell is that? Have you heard about it? Neil Young mentioned it when he was researching alt powered vehicles, in his new book.
Off to a school music recital, wish me safe passage.
mostly on topic,
-Bob

Uh, I think you got lost on your way to post to a different thread, hambone. Or maybe not.

hambone wrote:How will the future judge our polluting beasts???!?!?!
-Bob

With great love and affection.
Our classic air-cooled VW numbers are small enough that the biosphere can absorb our simple hydrocarbons with ease.
No rare metals like platinum and printed circuit board lead and nasty capacitor juice and acres of non-biodegradable plastic . . . our door cards recycle themselves as we look at them. The bodies can't wait to revert back to iron oxide.
Colin

asiab3 wrote:You'd think for a 300k selling price they would have… something… ANYTHING other than this…

so, i'm not an upright guy so bear with me but what is it about that engine you don't like?

Tasteless chrome, mech-only distributor, carb set-up. Speaking for myself.

The bus, and the price, is just rude. Someone has overdosed on greed. It's going around now.

chachi wrote:

asiab3 wrote:You'd think for a 300k selling price they would have… something… ANYTHING other than this…

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so, i'm not an upright guy so bear with me but what is it about that engine you don't like?

The selection of parts and specifications involved can never be tuned to give an Authentic Volkswagen Experience. I pay decent money and do lots of work to have my car start right up, every time, and run economically, in the harshest environments no matter what the conditions are. I do not think it would be possible even for Mr. Weber himself to get those carbs and distributors to run half as smooth as a Real Volkswagen is supposed to.

It makes me sad that someone is O.K. spending that amount of money for a sub-quality experience.
Robbie

My question is, is the vintage VW scene the only automobile scene where faithfulness to originality isn't particularly valued? For example, do bone-stock perfect 1957 Chevy BelAirs go for more or less than 1957 Chevy BelAirs that're the equivalent to this bus: wrong paint, wrong engine, wrong interior, wrong, wrong, wrong (not matter how well-done)?