Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
VanagonEuroVan
Subject:Re: End of the Mexican Beetles
From:Martha Feddersen
Date:Fri, 07 Feb 1997 08:17:42 -0800

Philip R. Hanlon wrote:
> 
> Listmembers:
> 
>         It WAS too good to be true :(
> 
> Little cars are going back to Mexico due to govt. saftey standards, feds
> did
> the bust, a nurse at Thomas husband works for importation and she heard
> you
> and I talking about them and told her husband, there are 23 loose in the
> US
> and the feds mean to track 'um down and capture them, if we had bought
> them
> too bad.  But I loved the idea of a NEW Beetle.  The ones due here in 98
> will
> be water cooled front engines and not really the same at all.  I might buy
> myself a restored one, now I've got the fever.  LaterSemi-New Beetles : it's my understanding that there is a place in 
seattle and vancouver BC that will build (repair) you a brand new bug on 
an old chassi (yours) for around $7000. maybe someone out there has more 
info on this. seattle  i heard somewhere, but vancouver i read in 
magazine archives at library, if anyone wants to research it.          	
    marti   91 gl not syncro

Have something to add on this topic today? Revive this thread in the forum »