just bought another yellow 412 wagon!
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vwfye
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just bought another yellow 412 wagon!
i am working with the seller right now to arrange a time frame to pick the car up. it is suppose to run, drive and stop... hopefully this is at least enough to drive onto a trailer! also, this one is a 73.
Notchback mid-engine speedster
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ubercrap
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NO kidding? That'll be an adventure. A couple of years ago, I bought my '85 Golf for $300. I changed the rear brake shoes, a wheel cylinder, and changed the oil, then drove it 1000 mi. nonstop across the country. The fuel pumps were ailing, but I made it!vwfye wrote:PO just emailed me and said he would trust it on a 6 hour drive!I was expecting to have to tow it home. might make for an interesting weekend!
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vwfye
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well, my 997 mile, 19 hour marathon is over! blink.gif i got the car home and myself, the car, the truck and the trailer are all in one piece! Dancing.gif after driving to Cool, CA i picked up the car onto the tandem axle trailer and took off back for home via I-80 westbound headed for I-5 north. about 25 miles into the return trip, stuff got scarey. eek1.gif the trailer started to fishtail severely and i ended up using both westbound lanes and the shoulder to save it. i really shouldn't have been able to, and as dave cormack can attest, i ditched the cell phone in mid conversation when it went very bad. unsure.gif after regathering the trailer and car back in behind me i travelled (very white knuckled) to williams, CA where i stopped and offloaded the car and put it back on the trailer 180 degrees opposite. without a trailer brake, it just wanted to swap ends under braking or even the mildest of down hills before the swap. so now, almost 3 hours behind schedule (trailer issue and massive traffic jam) i continued on my trek home. yelling.gif 19 hours and $150 fuel later, i arrived at my house at 1:30 am this morning. i will try and take some pics of the car over the next few days as time allows. imwithstupid.gif imwithstupid.gif imwithstupid.gif imwithstupid.gif
Notchback mid-engine speedster
Little Giant Killer 3
Little Giant Killer 3
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So you ended up putting the car on the trailer with the rear end at the front to help stability? What were you towing with, just out of curiousity? I never had any problems towing a Type 4 with the trailer with no brakes, and I have been borrowing my parents' Dakota, which is fairly small to tow with.vwfye wrote:well, my 997 mile, 19 hour marathon is over! blink.gif i got the car home and myself, the car, the truck and the trailer are all in one piece! Dancing.gif after driving to Cool, CA i picked up the car onto the tandem axle trailer and took off back for home via I-80 westbound headed for I-5 north. about 25 miles into the return trip, stuff got scarey. eek1.gif the trailer started to fishtail severely and i ended up using both westbound lanes and the shoulder to save it. i really shouldn't have been able to, and as dave cormack can attest, i ditched the cell phone in mid conversation when it went very bad. unsure.gif after regathering the trailer and car back in behind me i travelled (very white knuckled) to williams, CA where i stopped and offloaded the car and put it back on the trailer 180 degrees opposite. without a trailer brake, it just wanted to swap ends under braking or even the mildest of down hills before the swap. so now, almost 3 hours behind schedule (trailer issue and massive traffic jam) i continued on my trek home. yelling.gif 19 hours and $150 fuel later, i arrived at my house at 1:30 am this morning. i will try and take some pics of the car over the next few days as time allows. imwithstupid.gif imwithstupid.gif imwithstupid.gif imwithstupid.gif
