Bought mine for $1,967 in the Spring of 1967 in a closed-bid sale offered to employees of the insurance company my dad worked for, Outbid the second-highest bidder by $23. When I bought it the car had 6,000 miles on it, had been stolen by never-apprehended thieves from its original owner in Bremerton, Washington, driven to Reno, Nevada, and left on the street. It was in perfect condition. The Tacoma, Washington insurance company had it driven back to Tacoma and sold in the described auction. I kept it until the Spring of '83, when I sold it (with 319,000 miles on it) for $900 to a woman whose mechanic boyfriend insisted that she buy it. I was lucky never to have suffered a major impact collision in it. Later studies revealed that a fairly low-impact rear-end collision would tear the driver and passenger seats off their flimsy rails, thus turning the spines of the unfortunate occupants into strands of cooked spaghetti, resulting in head-to-toe paralysis. Ouch. I loved my '67 Bug, but I was lucky.
An Air Cooled VW that (doesn't) starts like this must have been tuned up by a buick owner! And don't forget the post WWII recommendation for a simple compression test. ... BTW, If ever there was a case for a set of Champion L-87 Ys, this is it.
@@user-em1dm3cq7q that thing doesnt even have a radiator. mine starts so smooth you should turn the distributor counter clockwise a bit to smooth the start, also check your sparkplug gap
