Posted by arthur paul bloom on Friday, October 22, 2004 at 7:23PM :
In Reply to: Re: New PW spec's posted by MoparNorm on Friday, October 22, 2004 at 6:18PM :
Well, since I started this s**t storm, inadvertantly, I will apologize and say that MoparNorm, as usual, has posted a very well-thought-out and educated response to my rather flippant remark.
Of course, there will never be a "new" PW in the T-137 form, for all the reasons that Norm has brought up. The best we can do is find every surviving one, and continue to restore them to the best condition possible.
(Paul in NY says he has a brand-new one that has been stored for 45 years, frozen in a glacier right behind his barn, but I don't believe it.)
Back in 1978, I said the same thing to a co-worker, that if I could find a brand-new PW I would buy it. He then handed me a copy of Hemmings, and said "put your $ where your mouth is" There was a 1968, with 8,000 miles, totally new and/or restored, for $8,500. I bought it, and when I reluctantly sold it in 1998, it had 14,000 miles on it.
That was the closest to a new one I ever saw for sale, in the after market.
I saw a REAL brand-new one, and what a beauty, painted in beige and black, in 1968, in Potsdam, NY, at a Dodge dealer. The price, to me, was astronomical, compared to the Scout that I was driving, which cost me $2773 in 1966. I wonder what became of it.
apb
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