Another vintage rig - for sale $$$

Valkyriebush wrote:

John&Joey wrote:
An air cooled flat four pulling a trailer. Say goodbye to number three exhaust valve, then a holed piston a millisecond later.

Something like that is nice in a museum, day to day use not so much.

Then the engine fire. No Thanks. I've seen far to many of those burned to a hulk on the side of the road in my life time.

Ours has 120K on the original engine and transaxle and we use it every year. I've owned it for 25+ years now without a single problem or fire. Just so you know, you can easily prevent engine fires by doing a simple fuel line inspection (which is primary due to the drying effect of the high fructose corn syrup they add to gas these days.)

While I would never pull a trailer with mine, I have seen many at shows who do without issue. Mine is valued and insured at 20K by the way, and I get offers at that value all the time (it's not for sale.) 70k likely has a lot to do with condition, model, and year - certain models are quite in demand, and have been increasing in value for some years now. Still, an object is only as valuable as the amount of money that someone is willing to pay to obtain it.

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- Randy