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Scarab for sale at Bat

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You know, that would be a cool car to restore, esp, if it keeps all the scarab parts. I saw a kit converted scarab car in San Jose one time, was purple coloured, but super beat up, I like the rear fenders too. 

How much do you think it would cost to have it restored if you couldn't to it yourself?

LC

In Texas, probably 30-40k. If you found the perfect guy, 25k..

That car spent a great deal of time in Wisconsin and Minnesota and has a lot of rust.  I think Charles is very close in his estimation cost to restore this car.  At the time of this post, this Scarab is at $9,100.00 with 1 day and 17 hours left on the auction.  My guess is that the car will end up selling for between $11k and $12k. 

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The real question is what is a properly restored Scarab worth?

1 hour ago, Patcon said:

The real question is what is a properly restored Scarab worth?

Good question, Charles.  Does anyone know of any sales of correctly restored full turnkey Scarab-built conversions in the last few years? 

Edited by lonetreesteve

So is a pristine Scarab worth $50k plus?

I wonder why they decided on a beetle as their namesake/brand image?  Fast doesn't come to mind when I think of a June bug.

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    2 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

    I wonder why they decided on a beetle as their namesake/brand image?  Fast doesn't come to mind when I think of a June bug.

     Worse yet, it's a dung beetle. The ancient Egyptians held the Scarab (dung beetle) in very high regard to the point of worship. Don't know and can't imagine why.

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    Probably because you can get into some "serious dung" with that much power in a little car like that!  :wacko:

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