That is not a fair comment. Just because it has the chassis of a VW, I certainly would not call it a VW convertible. If you truly understand what a coachbuilt car really is, you should understand that. Its not like somebody took a VW beetle, removed the body and stuck a fiberglass body on the chassis. These cars were built from hand and since there are people out there (including me) that would take an odd-ball one off or limited production coachbuilt car over any mass produced car, given supply and demand well....Michael Cass wrote:250 large for a VW convertible?
Need a part for your D&S? Good luck! Everything needs to be built from scratch if that is the case except of course for some of the drive train components.
Given that far more common coachbuilts built on a VW chassis (Hebmullers for example), that very much look like a VW Beetle are going in the $100k plus range for nicely restored examples, $250k for a handbuilt coachbuilt like this is not that unreasonable. Heck, while I love the lines of the D&S my favorite variant is the Rometsch.
Notice the trim piece over the front wheel? Years before they showed up on the Gullwing.
Doesn't look anything close to a VW to me!
Anyway, just my $3.56.