Beck Spyder project - on SAMBA $3k

NOT MINE - found on SAMBA. Damaged right front but new FG included. In Calif (of course).

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1055215

Nice winter project.

Could it be real... sounds too good to be true $3000 for a kit thats worth $12k-$15k???

Wish I was in Cal and had some more room!

Certainly not an impossible repair....

If it were not on the west coast it would, be here in my shop. ~Alan

What?????

It's only a couple or three days each way, 57 cups of black coffee, 12 bags of beef jerky and some Cheesy-Poofs. Oh, and a couple of nights in a flea-bag trucker motel (along with the noise from the "neighbors" and the roaches).

What's keepin ya?!?!?

And don't gve me that business about a little dusting of snow across the Mid-West - I'm not gonna buy it.......

Jeff P. Is that Bali Blue? I had a '63 coupe in Bali Blue...

You guys really think that a wrecked roller with nothing but a core tranny is worth $12k? Really?

I had the opportunity to buy this car from the insurance company about a year or so ago, with the engine and trans and gauges, etc, etc... After seeing more close-up and high resolution photos I passed on it.
I am not saying the seller is wrong about the chassis being straight, but seeing the collision photos and the orientation of the front wheel I would highly recommend someone inspecting the front of the chassis, the front beam and all related supports before pulling the trigger on this one. Just my 2c

Michael,

Not sure what color it is. I just went into the Sherwin William store and asked for some color chips and picked the one that looked good.

Pretty close to the color of my car...maybe just a tad lighter. Kirk tells me he doesn't remember where he got the color from.

Best place to get a color from is a new car dealer on Sunday when you won't get jumped by some starving saleperson. The window sticker color name is most always at the top of that sticker. Seeing a color on a car is a lot better than trying to match a photo or a color chip and with the year and color name you get exactly what you see. Remember that most reds are way expensive ($150 plus a quart) due to pigments. ~Alan

Thanks for the insight on the paint colour Alan, I am going to be painting my car in the spring. guess i'll make a few visits to the Porsche & Merc dealerships on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

Well Jeff it could pass for Bali Blue (factory 356 color) any time.

Is this David's old car?

angela

not my car, but it does seem to be an identical hit. mine is still sitting next door.
i am trying to find out where he got the new front end.

blue pigment (cobalt) is very expensive.

Yeah, David, it was so similar that it was rather startling!

angela

I'm not sure that it matters too much what color you choose - it's still gonna be expensive!

I wandered into an auto paint supplier which I had used quite a bit....40 years ago....but they're still there, even if all of the original people are long gone. I wanted a pint of the metallic green body color of my truck so I could re-paint my rub rails (and found that DuPlo didn't offer my color in zippy-cans). The supplier didn't sell pints, only quarts and gallons. I also wanted a can of "reducer" and was told it's not called that anymore, it's now a "fixer" (or something like that). Whatever.... so I ask him for a quart of the color and a quart of the, uh, "Fixer".

So while the guy was mixing up the paint on his "HUE-Aggronamatcher 5000"

You got a deal there, One qt. of custom mix red $ 187.50
..........."Did you want a paint stick with that?'

Hi Troy, where did you get that hood crest, I'd love to put one on my cmc ....

Looks like a 911/912 crest on Troy's. Klasse356 has them.

Hi Bob.
It is the 911 hood crest and I have bought them from both Sierra Madre and from Automotion. A little less expensive from Sierra Madre.
Troy