Salam volks folks!!
Hope all is well with everyone. Have been away for a long long time. Professional commitments, taking an exam, now a job switch etc. And oh yes sadly a computer crash making me lose all my data of the past two years Computers are cruel little beasts, Ive learnt the hard way.
Anyway, have a lot to post here.
First off would the Karachi crowd please wake up and let me know here who is interested in the meet???? I see Farrukh trying to get the crowd together but hardly anyone is responding. And Im sure like the last time AFTER the meet is done a dozen people would come up to me with what, why, where, when, how did we miss it??
What are you waiting for???
The Scrap value of a VW Bug is very easily 25 to 30 thousand rupees in Karachi. This is the amount which the car makes after its pounded to pieces, weighed and sold plus the profit the scrapper makes. So this really is the lowest price you will get a bug for. One might get lucky coming across some idiot who sells a bug for lesser cash not knowing the scrap value of course. And if this is a running bug you are lucky. The scrapper would not care whether the car runs, not unlike a pimp sees a woman, he only sees it as a lump of metal!
Sadly in Karachi we have many scrappers who just pound out a VW (or any old car) and throw each and everything in the scrap heap, ready to be melted. Other VW specific scrappers at least sell the (some of the) good bits off to help keep other cars alive.
About the tokens, take a look at the registration book of the car. It would show you what the yearly tax is. For 1300 bugs its around Rs 750 per year. Not sure what it would be for a 1500, probably higher if the bug started life a 1500 originally. (does it have two sets of slots in the rear bonnet??) You would have to pay a bit of fine too, probably 100 to 200 rupees per year for the outstanding tax period duration. Work out the math now.
Id be a happy man if the bug is rescued. Do share your story with us.
Asad
Thanx a lot to farrukh for making the announcements.
We are open to input from guys for the meet. The time may be flexible, lets see what people have to say. I may have an important workshop (Professional one!) to attend in the morning till late afternoon.
Hope to see Shahzeb there with his Ghia and Super. Thankfully he reports a speedy recovery on his father who has undergone Cardiac bypass surgery recently. Please pray for him.
Also Imran would be able to join us now as he was busy with a family affair last weekend.
Hey Storm,
Are you in the UK??? Enjoy yourself good! Do go to Santa Pod and report pl. I tried to go there but could not figure out a way of getting to the venue using public transport (apart from hiring a cab and paying an arm and a leg).
Would you be going to any swap meets?? pl let us know, I may have a wishlist
Thanks for your faith in me, Storm. The websites you have recommended are all very good, esp thesamba.com.
Restoring a split is hard and very expensive. I keep telling Mohsin Bhai how I saw split parts at the Volksworld Show 2006 which I attended locked up in glass display boxes like jewellery. Not to discourage but to stress that locating the right parts is very hard indeed. I think stumbling on a single split specific part in pakistan should call for a celebration.
Shahzeb, Welcome to the thread!
Im glad to have met you by chance completely and dragged you in here and convinced to post.
Quite an interesting lead here. Any details you can share?? When is the custom going to hit the streets?
Thanks farrukh for posting this.....
The 67 died a sad death. I tried my best to find a owner....long story short, paid three visits to the boneyard, dealt with an extremely diffcicult scrapper, did much for the rescue, even made a detailed estimate for the immediate cost to turn bug into a reliable daily runner and what??? The bloody (excuse the language pl, more falling from my mouth as I type) 'customer' disappeared without a trace :-#
OMG!!!
Can anyone guess the model year of this pan/chassis?????
NOT good...