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1973 Vw California Thing In Chicago on 2040-cars

US $14,600.00
Year:1973 Mileage:0 Color: White /
 White with black seats
Location:

Wilmette, Illinois, United States

Wilmette, Illinois, United States
Transmission:Manual
Body Type:Convertible
Vehicle Title:Rebuilt, Rebuildable & Reconstructed
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Owner
Engine:Air cooled 4 cylinder
Condition:

Used

VIN (Vehicle Identification Number)
: 1833025646
Year: 1973
Number of Cylinders: 4
Make: Volkswagen
Model: Thing
Trim: Black
Drive Type: 2 wheel drive
Options: Convertible
Mileage: 0
Sub Model: Type181
Exterior Color: White
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Interior Color: White with black seats

This VW THING was purchased in Huntington Beach and flatbed to Chicago where I have had it fixed and have driven her daily.She is garage kept when not being driven. The previous owner had the car for 5 years and only drove it 500 miles back and forth to Huntington Beach to surf.
Within the last year she has gotten a lot of engine work. Including a valve job, complete tune up,new tires,new frame and top,a brake job,a front fender(she didn't have one),windows (she didn't have any),new carpet, recovered back seat.She has a gas heater already installed but it is not hooked up. This is rare for this car. Her doors and windows can be removed. The front windshield can fold down like a dune buggy.
She has a working speedometer,however the needle is stuck behind the bar and needs to be freed. This is something that would take under an hour to fix by removing 3 screws and opening the glass. 
She starts every time. The longer she driven she takes longer to start.
 My mechanic say she definitely fires on all 4 cylinders but may need a compress test. 
I am not a mechanic but I am a long time VW lover. We love this car but also own a 74 bus and 2003 beetle.
After a hard decision she has to be sold. Too many cars and a new college education to pay for pushed the issue.
I love this car and will be sad to see her go. I have owned 6 vw's and this is my favorite.
Every time I drive it people stop to talk about how cool it is.
There were only approx 25,000 73/74 things in the US and this is one of the great ones. A very rare car in this area!
No warranty 
Local pick up only

Please only serious buyers and my price is firm
 

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Bloomberg Markets is reporting that BMW, Volkswagen and Ferrari have been using tungsten ore sourced from Columbia's FARC rebel terrorists. The extensive story focuses on Columbia's illegal mining trade and calls into question the provenance of the rare ore that is used not only in crankshaft parts production, but is also found in the world's computing and telecommunications industry for use in screens.
The ore is mined by the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army), and exported to Pennsylvania, where it is refined. The refined ore is then sent over to Austria, where a company called Plansee turns it into a finished product. Now, it's important to note that we aren't talking about the world's supply of tungsten here. In 2012, Plansee's American refinery purchased 93.2 metric tons of tungsten, valued at $1.8 million. That's peanuts, with the entire Colombian tungsten mining industry producing just one percent of the world's supplies.
That doesn't make indirectly supporting FARC any more acceptable, though. BMW, VW and Ferrari are all committed to not accepting mineral supplies from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is also in the grips of a guerrilla insurrection funded, in part, by illegal mining. The same commitment would figure to extend to Colombian mining, but as BMW points out, it's difficult for a multi-national manufacturer to know where every item in its supply chain comes from. A company spokesperson says as much, telling Bloomberg, "These few grams out of the billions of tons of raw materials passing through the BMW supply chain are of no practical relevance."

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As you know, Super Bowl advertisers, particularly automakers, like to endlessly tease their big budget commercials in the weeks before the game, many times revealing them outright days in advance. Because of this, YouTube can tell us which commercials have been viewed the most so far, and their top five list is all automakers.
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