A previous owner had tried to sell it on ebay two years ago, but ebay blocked the sale due to its policy against murderabilia - it is a shame this policy doesn't apply to murdered-out cars or just plain bad taste. The same policy does not apply to the Daily Turismo - in fact we welcome all kinds of murderabilia submissions - just please don't find out where we live and try to kill us (per our end user policy...).
We feel that driving a VW Van around would cause anyone to contemplate suicide - with its 1.6 liter flat four torturing your ear drums and providing a measly 47 horsepower to barely be able to maintain a freeway cruising speed. Death comes quickly in a Type 2, usually in the form of a faster vehicle who rear ends you or in Dr Death's case - the Thanatron or the Mercitron. The Mercitron was a machine that asphyxiated is wearer with CO2 gas - and we'd expect that the rusted muffler and rear deck area would be sufficient to poison any passengers or drivers of this car who forget to roll down the windows. If that doesn't kill you - just a small scratch from any number of rusty bits of metal should give you a fatal case of tetanus/lockjaw, don't say we didn't warn you.
Dr. Death made some headlines back in the day -but after he died in 2011 we haven't heard much from him, but this rusty Volkswagen is a grim reminder of a man who challenged authority, spent some time in jail and ultimately ended up as worm food. In his own words ""What difference does it make if someone is terminal? We are all terminal."
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ReplyDelete$150,000?!?1!
~ $150,000?!?1! i have a difficult time looking at this and thinking 'death with dignity'
ReplyDeleteI'd buy this if I wanted an assited suicide - by my wife...
ReplyDeleteHilarious!!!
Delete$150,000 would be way too much if that was just a standard Type 2, but dude, that's an early Westy! I imagine there is probably someone at Christie's asking their boss if they should make the call to consign it.
ReplyDeleteseriously - belongs here: www.museumofdeath.net/
ReplyDeleteSold for 20k on hardcore pawn, it's only worth what the next person will pay
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$20k was probably a decent price, currently listed on pawndetroit.com for $28k. Tried finding what the seller paid for it but couldn't. Anyone know?
ReplyDeleteSaw that it was listed a while back with the whole eBay thing for 3,400. Wonder if that's what he originally paid.
DeleteNot sure what the seller, Jack Finn, paid for it but I read on another site that he acquired it from Kevorkian's personal shop for scrap and that Kevorkian had given it to them for nothing. Finn had a scrap yard or some of the sort. I can't find the page I read it on but it was a murderabilia blog about the sale of the bus posted a day or two ago.
ReplyDeleteP.S. As a VW bus owner my bus and I take offense. Not all of us want to break the sound barrier and my bus is not rusty either! :p
yep the doctors woudent do it he had the right idea y suffer if u were in that spot u would be crying for kevorkian
ReplyDeleteApparently the illiterate as well as the intellectually terminal are attracted to this bus
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