Posted on 05/07/2013 6:01:19 AM PDT by varmintman
One of the more unusual items on display at the NRA convention in Houston was Magpul's Microbus with its minigun:
love the colors.
want
I had one in 1971. Paid less than a thousand. There wasn’t a developed and overly voracious collectors market like there is now. I bought my first 32’ sailboat for $3500. My rent in Pacific Grove was $125 a month, and that was in a 1bdrm with a view of the bay if you were in the bedroom. A waitress at Nepenthe could actually afford to buy 5 acres up Garapata Creek. Used cars back then were not over priced like they are now. In fact cars in general weren’t. Like housing no one was investing in them. In 1969 I bought a 1962 Austin Healey Bug Eyed Sprite for $125. Times have changed.
I was looking at some restored 1967 VW 21 and 23 window buses earlier...prices are 35K to 65K.
I had one in 1971. Paid less than a thousand. There wasn’t a developed and overly voracious collector market like there is now. I bought my first 32’ sailboat for $3500. My rent in Pacific Grove was $125 a month, and that was in a 1bdrm with a view of the bay if you were in the bedroom. A waitress at Nepenthe could actually afford to buy 5 acres up Garapata Creek. Used cars back then were not over priced like they are now. In fact cars in general weren’t. Like housing no one was investing in them. In 1969 I bought a 1962 Austin Healey Bug Eyed Sprite for $125. Times have changed. By the way, not saying the Samba sold as many to the flower child crowd (can’t stand the media created name, hippie, If you called yourself a hippie you weren’t a hippie.) as the other models. They were much more difficult to rig up with tie die curtains.
Oh yea, that’s the “Hawaiian bobble hula girl”. What a hoot.
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