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[OnMyWay]

1 hour ago, Jack Peterson said:

 Probably worth a small fortune now Steve 

There is a guy here in Subic / Olongapo who does restorations of mostly VWs, and he must be doing quite well.  About 6 months ago he bought (leased) one of the residential properties here and in addition to gutting the 2 unit building, he built a really long retaining wall against the hill and is putting in a bunch of carports for his cars.  I'm not sure how many, but more than 10, I think.

[graham59]

I snapped this nice one that lives in our town. I believe there is a local VW 'specialist not far away.  

A friend had an old VW Camper van, where he lived in Bicol. Marvellous vehicle, and with its light(ish) weight, and engine over the back wheels, great for muddy province roads.

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[OnMyWay]

4 hours ago, OnMyWay said:

Offshoot from the Corvette topic in Clean Jokes!

Wow!  You were about as close as you could get.  Here are pics of my 07 Auto Coupe.  I didn't really want an Auto but when I was looking in Germany this one came up as a good deal so I went for it.  These are the pics I took for my "For Sale" ad in Germany, and I literally sold it the day before I flew out of Germany for good.

https://goo.gl/photos/qYZ4rXmz9WHVHwQR6

 

(I probably posted some of this years ago here on the forum, so forgive me if some old timers have seen it before)

So I sold my 07 Velocity Yellow Corvette in Germany and when I got back to the U.S. in late 2010, I started shopping around for another used Corvette.  I was living in Kentucky.  My preferred color for 2008-2009 model year would have been Atomic Orange, a beautiful orange metallic, but I couldn't find one with everything I liked.  I ended up finding the almost perfect car, but in California!  2008 Black Z51 with 2 tone leather seats.  Road trip!

I bought it sight unseen but the owner lived about 5 miles from my sis and BIL, so BIL inspected it to make sure it was as promised.  I sent the money to sis, and the guy delivered it to their driveway.  It had a cover so it sat there covered for about a month until I was able to fly out for a week of vacation.  I took about 4-5 days to drive back to Kentucky, and took route 66 for quite a ways.  I planned to take a bit longer, but after about 3 days I was getting bored and tired, so I made a beeline for home!

Here are some pictures I took before I sold it in May 2012, just before moving here.  I babied this one and you could eat off of the engine.  I was able to sell it for slightly more than I paid for it.

  

  

 

 

 

[graham59]

What a gorgeous Vette, OMW.  I love American 'muscle cars... always have done.

Nearest I could afford in the UK were the V8 TVRs.

I've had three of the 'Wedge' models so far.  All getting on for 300bhp,  in a light weight car.

First pic is my Red 390SE .

Then, my Green 400SE,  arriving at the drag meeting, accompanied by my half-Filipino son,

followed by my 'Gunmetal Grey' 390SE (Only 103 390SEs were produced and around 245 400SEs)

[graham59]

Here is a little  (rather poor quality) phone vid of me leaving my friend's house in the 400SE...  

 

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[Heeb]

Waxing my 1973 911S at NAS Miramar, CA in 1995 shortly before selling it for 6k to a couple of guys from L.A. who said they would ship it to Belgium to sell it there. A few years ago I'm on shift and someone is watching a car auction show and the same car with more miles goes for over 200k, apparently those year models became really popular recently. I only sold it because I was headed to Guam and didn't want to bring it only to watch it rust.

[Old55]

Dodge 

[Ice Patrol]

Heres my 1971 Corvette for you....7.4L / 454 cu.in. ,4 sp. manual ,360 Hp.It had a nice tone with the Sidepipes  The pic is from 1976.Wish GM would bring this car back in retro form.

[fototek1]

Interesting that all the photos I found are from the same angle. I will try to post up some of the others when I run across them.

I would really like to have a nice jeepney too

[fototek1]

2 hours ago, Ice Patrol said:

Heres my 1971 Corvette for you....7.4L / 454 cu.in. ,4 sp. manual ,360 Hp.It had a nice tone with the Sidepipes  The pic is from 1976.Wish GM would bring this car back in retro form.

Looks just like my 1968 minus the pipes. That was a great car