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Title: Flossins Stable Grows..
Post by: Lanny on March 12, 2007, 08:21:02 PM: Darren, his wife Christine and myself met downtown yesterday morning to check out some alloys for sale on The Samba. Parked in the underground, a 1951 Belgian Split..mostly factory paint, 25 HP etc etc. Appears to have less than 100,000 KM on it. Origional bill of sale etc. Rediculous origional condition. It will be sitting next to the 55 next week. Congrats!
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Post by: Trevor P on March 12, 2007, 08:30:08 PM: pics? :mellow:
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Post by: Stephan Schmidt on March 12, 2007, 08:44:52 PM: Very cool!

Congrats Darren!

So did the original owner import it? Or did it belong to a guy that had those alloys?

Stephan
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Post by: amishrabbi on March 12, 2007, 08:46:28 PM: everyone but me gets lucky on beetles :angry:

i want to see some pics!
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Post by: Stephan Schmidt on March 12, 2007, 08:50:37 PM: PS: it sure does prove that there are A LOT of cars sitting around that the \"aircooled\" crowd doesn't know about.
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Post by: G-dog on March 12, 2007, 08:54:35 PM: UNREAL!!Next car in the stablewill have to be a Hebmuller or a Rometsch ;) Good score Y'all!!
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Post by: Geoff on March 12, 2007, 09:03:26 PM: I could be wrong but I belive thats the one that came from the collector in Montreal who has MANY eary splits. Jason got his from him as well.

Very cool! congrats!
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Post by: surgerypending on March 12, 2007, 09:27:43 PM: Hum...I heard of one sitting in an underground on Seymour or Richards last year...could this be the same car?
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Post by: Schvengy on March 12, 2007, 10:16:44 PM: CONGRAT\"S Darren

Looking forward to seeing pic's

Willis :rockon:
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Post by: silas on March 12, 2007, 11:56:41 PM: Quote
Darren, his wife Christine and myself met downtown yesterday morning to check out some alloys for sale on The Samba. Parked in the underground, a 1951 Belgian Split..mostly factory paint, 25 HP etc etc. Appears to have less than 100,000 KM on it. Origional bill of sale etc. Rediculous origional condition. It will be sitting next to the 55 next week. Congrats!
that's a funny coincidence.

i saw the add for those earlies and noticed that the seller was in vancouver. i checked out his gallery and saw pics of a very cool early bus and pm'd him to intoduce myself. we exchanged some pm's and decided that we'd have to hook up sometime, and then he mentioned that darren had just bought his split.

my response....

\"that darren is one crazy mo-fo.\" :rockon:

good score and congrats on the new ride darren. just when you think the the steeds in your stable couldnt get any finer, you go and get a kentucky derby winner.
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Post by: buddy boy on March 13, 2007, 09:13:20 PM: wow !,.. were gonna need pics daren.
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Post by: Matt Davis on March 16, 2007, 07:19:01 AM: bump...

Pics D!! :rockon:
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Post by: OUTKAST on March 17, 2007, 09:06:20 AM: :o No pics you are killin me PICS! PICS! PICS!
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Post by: Geoff on March 17, 2007, 09:37:09 AM: Sorry no pic's will be shown until the new Pauter motor is in :lol:
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Post by: G-dog on March 17, 2007, 12:18:12 PM: Darren,you should put a V8 in that thing! ;)
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Post by: vwshawn on March 17, 2007, 08:59:29 PM: Hi Darren,
Congrats on the split window.
V-8? what about the HEMI

Shawn :D
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Post by: Darren Dilley on March 18, 2007, 10:00:09 PM: well its home :D
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original bill of sale
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Post by: Matt on March 18, 2007, 10:07:28 PM: Very cool. Whats the plans?
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Post by: Stephan Schmidt on March 18, 2007, 10:18:12 PM: I don't even want to know how much you paid, but it was probably well worth it.

It looks like a fairly perfect all original 51 split to me!

I'd say wax it, clean it as well as you can, drop it and slap in a larger motor!

Stephan
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Post by: Darren Dilley on March 18, 2007, 10:33:07 PM: Quote
Very cool. Whats the plans?
Dropped with a 4 inch beam with chrome 4.5 fuchs up front and 5.5 in the rear new Lenny Cobb interior
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Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on March 18, 2007, 10:42:01 PM: ohhhhhhh my god!!! That is nice..................... Congrats with the new car she's beautiful!
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Post by: jim martin on March 18, 2007, 10:44:50 PM: great piece of history to own !!
love that steering wheel,
what was the perchase price and any options ,hard to make out on the bill of sale pict
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Post by: Schvengy on March 18, 2007, 11:09:49 PM: SWEET RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:
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Post by: silas on March 19, 2007, 01:25:48 AM: that is a beautifull car. way to go darren.

it'll look great down on earlies.
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Post by: surgerypending on March 19, 2007, 09:51:39 AM: Quote
Dropped with a 4 inch beam with chrome 4.5 fuchs up front and 5.5 in the rear new Lenny Cobb interior

Perfect! I'd leave everything else stock on that car.
Congrats man!
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Post by: Matt Davis on March 19, 2007, 10:00:13 AM: It needs REAL earlies incl deep 6's. A car of that caliber needs the real deal, not flat 4's. :rockon:
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Post by: ehos on March 19, 2007, 10:44:52 AM: Sweet Standard!

I'm a big fan of lowered cars, but stock standards are IT. Leave the way it is and drive her!
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Post by: moni on March 19, 2007, 10:54:30 AM: ***drrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooll***

great score darren. :rockon:
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Post by: red snapper on March 19, 2007, 11:14:21 AM: Nice score dude! You got one understanding wife! ;)
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Post by: steveo_32 on March 19, 2007, 12:15:41 PM: Thats fricken awsome man, Im glad it went to a home who will enjoy it
Drive em or lose em!
I might have a original factory option book for the 51 era
I'll dig thru my box o stuff for ya!
Cheers
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Post by: buddy boy on March 19, 2007, 12:58:20 PM: wow, can't wait to see it in person !!!
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Post by: Mike Scott on March 19, 2007, 03:03:22 PM: that thing is awesome!!!!! Congrats
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Post by: Mowser on March 19, 2007, 03:15:41 PM: I'm curious as well, can you make out the sales price on the original bill of sale? Is it matching numbers still? Either way that is an incredible piece of history.
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Post by: silas on March 19, 2007, 06:51:22 PM: Quote
I'm curious as well, can you make out the sales price on the original bill of sale?
i see 66,860.

if that was belgium franks, the online currency converter puts that at $2,596.97 CAD.

does that sound right?
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Post by: btljuce on March 19, 2007, 08:20:43 PM: schweeeeeeeet !! way to go darren
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Post by: Mowser on March 19, 2007, 09:24:54 PM: If you are correct I wonder how much that would have been in 1951? Currency exhange is so up/down.
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Post by: Darren Dilley on March 19, 2007, 11:54:18 PM: price in sept 1951 ....59750.00
12% tax...................7170.00
total.......................66,420.00
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Post by: Chad M on March 20, 2007, 04:34:21 PM: Quote
Sweet Standard!

I'm a big fan of lowered cars, but stock standards are IT. Leave the way it is and drive her!

Finally! X2 what JP said.
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Post by: SteveW on March 21, 2007, 02:52:43 AM: Quote
well its home :D
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original bill of sale
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Hey Darren!

The split looks awesome!! Very jealous :D
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Post by: OUTKAST on March 22, 2007, 07:34:35 PM: Really sweet Go gasser style, straight axle ,big lift ,big block, hilborn injection ,and 21\"mickey thompsons on the rear :o Vintage fest here we come :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: