From: Rikk Rogers (rkltd@swbell.net)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 14:36:43 PDT
That is a lot for a VW with webbed feet..........
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From: Richard Notton [mailto:Richard@fv623.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:08 PM
To: MVlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MVlist] dumb friday question
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From: <JaxInCalifornia@aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [MVlist] dumb friday question
> In the Western world I would say the hard top L3314 (N) series, not the
L3314
or the canvass top. The hard top N...got to be very rare by now. Pretty
low
production numbers.
> Other than that I would say the Schwiminwagen... but wait, wasn't that
just 2
wheel drive?
>
Hmmmmm, a bit off the mark perhaps Jack, the Schwimmer is a 4x4 and perhaps
you
are slightly confusing price and demand = rarity.
My local German MV writer and historian tells me that he has exhaustive
details
on 142 known Schwimmers, plus the names of a further 32 owners. This
represents
likely less than half the actual numbers existing and a fair estimate would
be
about 500. They are very sought after though and the price reflects this
being
in reality over-inflated when one comes up for sale, and this is rare since
there is a ready line of well-heeled buyers already on the grape-vine so
there
is little need to advertise.
For example the last Schwimmwagen I know of here that sold locally was an
original example, complete, running but tatty and non-swimming without work;
this made 24,000 UKP (35,457.02 USD at today's rates) with no haggling
needed.
Richard
Southampton - England
-Solent Area MVT-
http://www.solentmvt.co.uk
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