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Old 12-18-2017, 02:33 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I like to purchase cars out of farmer's fields next to the highway. I got the '56 sunroof Oval-window that way


and the Shantung Gold Superbeetle was in a pasture behind a white fence, right across from the saddle shop in downtown Walterville.


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Among the many reasons I prefer buying private party over a dealership is that the owner knows the vehicle history, and the dealer does not.
The Dasher I bought from the [mechanic/shop owner] that had owned it for 14 years:


(Those wheels on the Oval-window are the ones I traded for the Dasher thirty years later)
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