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Title: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: exagenesis on September 17, 2010, 07:51:01 PM
So many years ago I wanted this car, and I'm just wondering if anyone knows if someone on here bought it, or has seen it.
It's always been my fave bug.. Sort of a see if they want to sell kind of thing.

It was originally in vancouver, bc.

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Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: stefan on September 17, 2010, 08:14:36 PM
it looks like paul jones old car try red snapper he could confirm ir it is, dont know what happened to it, it was for sale a few years ago where it went who knows? ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: red snapper on September 17, 2010, 09:17:48 PM
That was Pauls car many years ago I think. Does it have 1 suicide door?
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: exagenesis on September 18, 2010, 12:33:13 AM
yeah, it had suicide doors on it. it was pretty mean, I took a look at it in person when he was selling it, called back a while later and it'd had gone.
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: Krautbucket on September 19, 2010, 09:02:38 PM
I bought that car with a friend named mike hornak back in 1985 , it was already chopped and in primer , plans were to. Drag race it but we never ended up doing anything with it , I can't remember who we sold it to VWShawn might remember , but I did see it for sale on craigslist for under 2000 a couple of years back . It sure was a cool chop .


Dwayne
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: OUTKAST on September 19, 2010, 09:50:55 PM
Mike hornack where is he at we could find a few missing thing s : )
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: Krautbucket on September 20, 2010, 12:16:47 AM
;)
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: Geoff on September 20, 2010, 02:07:25 PM
It belonged to a cust of mine back around 1998 when I bought the engine and trans out of it. It changed hands a few times after that.
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: DarrenE on September 20, 2010, 04:53:17 PM
How about these?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1004644

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=806575
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: Geoff on September 22, 2010, 09:28:28 AM
I dug thru my recipys to find these  ;D Pauls recipts from when he built his engine and trans..

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Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: josh on September 22, 2010, 10:54:44 AM
man look at those prices
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: red snapper on September 22, 2010, 11:31:33 AM
Wow! Can you see his Visa numbers. Lol. I remember when he was building that thing. He spent a lot of dollars building that car. He also spent many hours trying to figure out why it wasnt performing very well for a 2275. Only to find out that it looked like the engine builder swithched cranks on him when he built it. Found out that it was a lot smaller. Good thing that builder isnt around anymore.
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: Geoff on September 22, 2010, 11:55:53 AM
He was billed for a 84 stroke but it had a 82... At least when I bought it and pulled it apart.
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: red snapper on September 22, 2010, 12:34:45 PM
I guess a 84 compared to a 82 wouldnt make that much of a difference. I guess I was mistaken cause I thought it was a 74 or 69. Oops.
Title: Re: Has anyone seen this Bug?
Post by: vwshawn on September 26, 2010, 08:09:35 PM
Yes, I totally remember that car!
Dwayne, remember DRM? That was painted on the doors!
I introduced Paul Jones to Mike Hornak, that was the same summer that
you drove the domestic roadster down to SIR or bust!
Gene Berg signed the trunk of the car, mike probably has pics and maybe the
trunk is in storage.

Paul and VW Specialities built this car, the floor pan came from my 56 beetle, that Greg Hoing used to own.
Frank Graf and Hans Krieger, would remember this car!
Hans, it was at your shop off of Scott Road.

As for the VW Specialties engine builder, I believe his name was Grant.