Don’t buy another VW Beetle until you have used this handy buyers guide for evaluating your new Beetle!

Authors Richard Copping and Ken Cservenka, have 70 years’ experience working with classic Beetle and the problems/opportunities that a buyer will face.

• The new VW Beetle App includes 18 sections, ranging from cost considerations to common problems.
• Nine slideshows – which cover model range, 15-minute evaluation, and paint problems – each featuring an informative voice-over by one of the authors.
• Covers VW Beetles produced between 1945 and 2003.
• Includes Mexican-built Beetles from 1978 and on.
• Many color photographs taken especially for this guide.
• Written by experts with the novice in mind.
• In-App videos with voiceovers

This app covers VW Beetles built from 1945-2003, including Cabriolet, Standard and Deluxe, 1300 Beetle, 1500 Beetle, 1302S, 1303, and Mexican-built Beetles (from 1978).

The latest offering is a thing of beauty:

West Coast Classic Restored VW for Sale

The asking proce is $9500. Considering the paint, restoration and everything else, you can’t go wrong – it’s well worth the price if you want to avoid all of th work, hassle, busted knuckles and frustrations of restoration. lay down your cash and drive away in this beauty.

Here is the ad for this 1968 Restored VW Beetle for sale if you want to know more.

There are some beautiful cars on this site, and, of course, Things. Including one Kubelwagen built in 1942 and delivered and used in Africa during WWII. They also have a 1944 Schwimmwagen. Just perfect.

The one really great feature about West Coast is that they put pictures up during the restoration of a car. So we can follow along, and see what they did once they are finished. For example, here is a page about Jim’s (I don’t know Jim) 1949 Beetle restoration.

So if you have a Volkswagen that needs some love, and you just aren’t that mechanically inclined, check out West Coast VW Restoration, or anyplace around you that can do the work for you.

If you have no VW, then sorry. But you could, because West Coast sells Beetles, Things, and Ghia’s.

It looks like it is in pretty good shape. The interior is certainly “authentic.” I thought the bundle of wires hanging out of the bottom of the dashboard was a good touch. Sure, it isn’t as big a star as Herbie, but then how many movie-star bugs are there?

Anyhow.

I found a great resource in my search for an old VW Beetle. Hemmings Motor News offers newsfeeds for specific car searches. If you read blogs through a feedreader, such as Yahoo, Bloglines or any RSS feedreader (my preference is Bloglines – see the link on the left sidebar to subscribe), then you are familiar with how to use an RSS feed.

Basically, the RSS feed updates without you having to do anything.
1. Subscribe to Bloglines
2. Add a feed to your service
3. To add the Hemmings feed for classic VW Beetles, click “Add” and paste this:

http://www.hemmings.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/classifieds.rss_feed_cars/make/Volkswagen/model/Beetle

4. See updates as they come available.

See? easy.