Thursday, March 25, 2010

Tempted by the fruit of another....

Craigslist is EVIL! Ok so last night I almost came home with another toy. I found on craigslist (EVIL) a 1983 VW Westfalia for $750 that runs and drives! I went to go take a peek at it because what can I say I just can't help myself.

The thing was in great condition! I expected it to be like most of the other VW campers I have looked at. They tend to look more like Swiss cheese of rust rather than a whole piece of metal. But this one had NO cancer rust!

The downside was the fact that it was an automatic (not fun in finding parts for a rare transmission) painted black (who paints a VW camper black anyway), and a fiberglass top that was totally toast. I don't know what happened to that poor top but it was not pretty!


But alas the answer had to be no. We don't have room right now for another toy and I promised myself no more toys until the Prinz was done. Sigh...

So no Westfalia for me right now. I resisted the temptation and am back on track with my Prinz. Summer can't come fast enough so I can finish the garage to allow me to start to get to work on making the Prinz come alive once again!

I have a friend who's arm I have twisted to take some more pictures of my Prinz and will post them soon.

On another Prinz note I have to send a major shout out to Lior Baruch and his AMAZING 1965 Sport Prinz. You can check out his web site here:
http://www.nsuprinz.com/lior/default.asp


So stay tuned for the next exciting chapter of the 1960 NSU Prinz Blog!