1964 Volkswagen Beetle - Classic

193? 194? Other

4 - Cyl.

Manual

Gasoline

Thanks for coming to check out this auction! I have an excellent reputation & positive feedback rating on eBay, so you can bid with confidence on my items. Please be sure to read the entire description and view all of the super-sized photos of the vehicle before placing your bids. Thank you. Shown here is our 1964 Volkswagen Beetle with the super-durable, air-cooled 1,200cc - 40 horsepower horizontally-opposed four-cylinder engine & 4-speed manual transmission. It’s a great driver! …read on… We got this car from our neighbor couple, and it was in their family since it was new. It transferred owners within the family a couple different times, but it was purchased brand new by the wife’s great-aunt. The odometer reads 25,650, but it’s turned over once. The engine was, however; rebuilt only 8,000 miles ago. It runs well, and we took it up to the “Back To the ‘50s” car show in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as “Goodguys” show in DesMoines, Iowa this summer! Made both road trips beautifully, and got a tremendous amount of attention! Everywhere you go with this car… you can just look at the expressions on people’s faces, and see that everyone smiles! No joke… I considered getting a personalized license plate that reads “SMILE”… but changed my mind, because the car evokes that reaction all on its own. We check the fuel mileage upon filling up every time. We’ve consistently averaged 31.5 miles per gallon with a combination of highway and in-town driving with the car! The owner’s manual states that 72mph is top speed, but the car will go a little faster than that. We’ve had it up to 80mph (on a windless day) out on the interstate, but it slows down going up the hills, or if you’re bucking a serious head-wind. Then you can only make around 65 miles per hour. The car was all beige originally, and wasn’t in all that bad of shape cosmetically when we got it, however we decided to sand it all down, and re-paint it turquoise & cream (a very similar shade of color to the original beige). The dash and door panels inside are still glossy & nice… wearing their original, factory 46 yr old paint. The new exterior paint looks just great the way it is, but could stand a light wet-sanding with 2,000 grit paper, and then a final buffing to bring it out to a high-gloss mirror luster. In an attempt to give it a more vintage look, we just placed tape over the back window, and carefully masked it off & painted (the tape) turquoise… then cut two “D” shapes into it to give the car that pre-’53 Split-Window look. It fools most people until they get up closer & notice that it’s fake. I had planned to lay the back window out on some saw-horses… cover it with strips of fiberglass mat dipped in resin, and build it up to roof-contour level with DuraGlass. …Then cut out the split-oval window shape to make sort of a fiberglass “inlay” piece which could be painted body-color to give the appearance/effect of a real split-window Bug! I had planned to make a mold of this to re-create multiple copies to sell to people with post -’53 Beetles, but haven’t gotten around to this yet. Some other recent work we did to the car includes: shaving/filling the holes for the fender-mounted turn signals, and re-locating them into the headlight assemblies (they're now hidden... for a more vintage look). There’s a new distributor cap & rotor, new spark plugs and plug-wires, new fuel-filter, new fuel pump, fresh oil in the wet-bath air-cleaner, etc. The transmission shifts great through all the gears (it’s synchronized, so you barely need to use the clutch except from starting off from a stand-still). The brakes are okay, but pull to one side a little (very typical drum-brake behavior from cars of this era). The tires are all 4 bias-plys in decent shape with about 50% tread remaining. The white sidewalls are just “portawalls” (rubber ring/flap which tucks in-between the bead of the rim and the tire). If the buyer doesn’t prefer this look… I will gladly knock off $70.00 from the final sale price if I can take the portawalls back off the tires to retain for a future car project. Some other custom “non-original” items I would be happy to keep (if the buyer doesn’t wish to have them included with the car) would be: The fiberglass rear fender skirts… I’d knock off $160.00 if I can keep those. The vintage sunvisor (which I only set into place for some of the pictures & haven’t even painted yet)… I’ll take off $100.00 if I can keep that… otherwise, I’ll paint it turquoise blue to match the rest of the car prior to sale (at no additional charge). Also: the chrome 15” beauty rings… I’ll take off $60 for them. If you’d prefer to have the original VW headlights instead of the ’37 Ford teardrop shaped headlights, I’ll re-install them prior to the sale, and just keep the ’37 units for a future car (just a straight-across swap). I have the original small-oval taillights with blue-dot conversions (shown in one or two pictures). If I can keep the ’39 Lincoln teardrop LED taillights… I’ll re-install the VW ones, and take another $100 off the final price of the car. The interior on this Bug is in pretty nice shape. There is one little scrape on the driver’s seat upholstery, but otherwise, the seats are all nice. The headliner is original, and very nice except for a little area below the rear window, which has gotten dried out by the sun over the past 46 years. We have a completely new carpet set for the entire interior of the car, as well as inside the front trunk capet – which is not installed yet as you can see in the pictures, but will be included with the car. The floor-pan rusted out below where the battery sits (they all do this from acid corrosion)… so it was relocated to the driver’s side below the rear seat and a piece of sheetmetal placed over the hole on the passenger side. One heater tube is still relatively intact as heat comes into the car and “drifts” up onto the windshield for “defrost”, but the rocker panels/heat tubes are pretty well rusted out, so it’s not effective for winter driving heat at this point. JC Whitney sells kits with electric blowers to remedy this quite effectively. By the way… the car has been converted to a 12 volt generator and all the 6v bulbs replaced with 12v units which is a convenient, modern reliability upgade! Further rust includes the driver’s side front floorpan area which was patched (cheesily) by the previous owner. Floor pan patch panels stamped into the correct, original shape are also readily available from various aftermarket sources such as JC Whitney, but we haven’t done anything with the floorpan rust as of yet. This is the main thing where the car still needs attention. Otherwise, it’s basically all cosmetically restored. One taillight area still shows the oval shape where the original housing used to be surrounding the teardrop ’39 Lincoln unit (I wet sanded the other side out, but haven’t gotten to the driver’s side yet). The car came factory with no radio, but an aftermarket one was installed many years ago (doesn’t work anymore). Thankfully, they didn’t cut up the dash to do this installation, and I still have the radio-delete plate for it. I also have a modern Pioneer am/fm CD Player, which I was going to install & hide in the glove box or under the dash someplace… but simply haven’t gotten to it yet. I have some high-quality speakers to go in the circular holes in the door panels (which; for the record; I did not cut out!). The new paint job isn’t flawless, and there are still a few tiny dings which I missed prior to finishing, but overall it looks great, and we get tons of compliments on it! The chrome is nice on the bumpers, etc. with no pitting. There are a couple dings on the stainless beltline trim, but nothing major. Both running boards are new. With today’s fuel prices, it’s nice to get into a classic car which gets really good fuel economy, yet is still a HUGE hit at the car shows! You can get the best of both worlds with this car! We’re only selling it because we have too many other projects in the works (one might call it “Automotive A.D.D.”). This is a really cool little car, and we’ve listed it at a very fair price with no reserve, so here’s your opportunity to own a really unique vintage Bug! My apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, but I will be out-of-State for the majority of the duration of this auction listing. Anyone is welcome to come take the car for a test drive, or have an independent mechanic/bodyman come inspect the vehicle prior to making payment, however it would have to be after the auction is completed in this case. I will likely be away from computer/internet access during this time, so forgive me if I do not respond to e-mails left in the eBay message forum. I’ll be glad to take phone calls if you have any further questions, however. (641) 512-5229. Thanks for looking! ...and now for the fine print: By bidding on this item (or otherwise agreeing to purchase the vehicle), you acknowledge that it is being sold AS IS with no warranty implied or expressed, and that we require a $250.00 security deposit via PayPal or money order sent to: Trina Stone, 1719 S. Coolidge Ave., Mason City, IA 50401 within 5 days of auction’s end, and the remaining balance of the vehicle is to be paid for in full within 10 days. If coming to pick it up in person, then we ask that you bring cash for the remainder of payment, otherwise if having the vehicle shipped, a Wells Fargo or Bank of America cashier’s check is acceptable. If you can’t get the vehicle picked up right away, storage for a reasonable amount of time may be an option, but please ask before you bid, and remember that the vehicle must be paid for in full within 10 days of auction’s end whether it has been picked up yet or not. I request Wells Fargo or Bank of America because they are National Chains and I can go right down to our local branch here in Mason City and cash the note right away without having to wait for a 10 day hold from another bank. This way, I can just send the title right out to you, and there’s no waiting for the funds to clear. This helps with those having a vehicle transported as well, because I cannot release a vehicle to an auto shipper if the payment is not cleared. Anyone failing to pay for an item won at auction will surely have a non-paying-bidder mark against them on eBay! Security deposits are considered non-refundable. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding. If you intend to have this vehicle shipped with a car carrier, the auto transporters I have contact info for are as follows: Atlas Auto Transport (888)285-2706, David Irving 763-441-3796, Larry Baker 605-484-6949 There’s also one called D.A.S. (Dependable Auto Shippers) with a shipping dock out of Altoona, Iowa (about 2&½ hours from us here in Mason City) 800 826-1083. DAS has some finicky policies such as no contents in the car other than what will fit in the trunk, so beware of this kind of thing with them. * If you have any trouble viewing the slideshow at the top of this page, please be sure to click on the thumbnail image below to view the complete web-album with all 99 Super-Sized photos of this great car! VW Beetle