I will have to save my pennies! So far I have a mere $1500 to throw at a MIGI, hence my attempted purchase from a dealership.

I know- some of you guys must be thinking that is a rather small down payment; but I’m excellent at bartering. I once got a guy down from $8,000 to $4,000 for a Jeep because I paid in cash. If I don’t get a price I like…[Read more]

Oh, yeah- I don’t think there as a single head that didn’t turn when I was test driving. Not that I care about attention but it does demonstrate the extreme beauty of the car.

I think I’ll email the dealer a copy of the URL for this page and tell him to call me when he wants to get rid of it. He was extremely adamant about the price and claimed…[Read more]

By the way, Edsnova- I never mentioned how bad the brakes were. How in the world did you know that?

How very dissapointing. I love the car but I’m not stupid in love. But damn- I got bit by the bug BAD.

Thanks for your sage wisdom, everybody. I’m still gonna stay on the forums, probably lurking since I don’t even own a TD replica yet. But I just have to own one so I might as well familiarize myself with it now.

Again, thanks for helping out a…[Read more]

The windshield was definitely on backwards- the brackets for the side windows were facing outwards and would not rotate all the way where they would need to be. Forgot about the windshield wiper!

And I that’s definately not the motor I saw. It was a four cylinder, four speed VW. The gas pedal had to be pumped quite a few times before the car…[Read more]